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Arunima / IBNLive:
India plans legal action against maker of film about Delhi rape, asks that documentary not be broadcast anywhere in the world — Make sure Nirbhaya documentary is not aired abroad: Rajnath Singh to BBC, MEA, I&B Ministry — New Delhi: After banning the screening of Nirbhaya documentary …
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Annie Banerji / Agence France-Presse:
India bans broadcast of BBC film showing gang-rapist — India has banned the broadcast of a controversial documentary in which one of the men who gang-raped and murdered a student is shown blaming the victim — a move the film's maker called “arbitrary censorship”.
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Times of India, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Voice of America, TIME, Reuters, CNN, @mankomo16, @rezhasan, South China Morning Post, NDTV News, ABC and Variety
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Andrew Lack's return to NBC would drive a major executive shakeup and “near-guarantee” the reinstatement of Williams as Nightly News anchor — Andrew Lack's return to NBC could signal return of Brian Williams — Former NBC News president Andrew Lack's return to 30 Rock …
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Inside Cable News
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
NBCUniversal in early talks to bring former news president Andrew Lack back in senior role
NBCUniversal in early talks to bring former news president Andrew Lack back in senior role
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
Deborah Turness May Be Out as NBC News Chief
Deborah Turness May Be Out as NBC News Chief
Discussion:
@vivian, @noahcrothman, Broadcasting & Cable, @moorehn and @brianstelter
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped stonewall FOIA requests by Gawker and the Associated Press — Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests — WASHINGTON — In 2012, congressional investigators asked the State Department for a wide range of documents related …
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Gawker, Associated Press, Poynter, New York Times, Business Insider, NPR, Vox, Washington Post, Politico, @pdcolford_ap, @colmorrisdavis, Fox News, Sunlight Foundation Blog, Bloomberg Business, The Week, Mother Jones, Capital New York, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, E Pluribus Unum, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Online and BREITBART.COM
Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:
China Monthly Box Office Tops U.S. for First Time Ever — Chinese box-office revenue edged ahead of the United States in February for the first time ever as a record Lunar New Year bonanza brought in $650 million in the second-largest movie market, according to data from research firm Entgroup.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Ascap Topped $1 Billion in Revenue Last Year, Lifted by Streaming — Ascap, the music licensing agency, is in one sense fighting for its survival, seeking to change decades-old rules to fit the economics of online music. In another, it is finding ways to distribute more money than ever to its thousands of songwriters.
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Hollywood Reporter, Tennessean.com, Radioandmusic.com, Music Business Worldwide, Music Week and Billboard
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Newsquest's pro-Scottish independence title The National launches website behind metered paywall — Newsquest's pro-independence daily The National has launched a new website, www.thenational.scot, behind a metered paywall. — The title, a sister to the Herald, Sunday Herald and the Evening Times …
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allmediascotland
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
The Baffler names Noah McCormack publisher — The Baffler has named Noah McCormack its new publisher, the first since cutting ties with M.I.T. Press last year. — McCormack joined The Baffler informally in 2012 and was named director of special projects last year.
Discussion:
@silvermanjacob and FishbowlNY
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Colombian radio journalist murdered, the second to die in three weeks — Presenter who criticised police and political corruption is shot dead — Radio presenter Edgar Quintero became the second Colombian journalist to be murdered in three weeks on Monday (2 March) when a gunman shot …
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Fox News, United Nations and Committee to Protect …
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Publishers love WhatsApp's click-through rates, but struggle with lack of metrics about users and management of news alerts — Publishers love Whatsapp's potential, but struggle with execution — Publishers have a love-hate relationship with WhatsApp. While many are seeing big numbers …
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@sarahmarshall
Chicago Tribune:
Oprah's Harpo Studios to close in December, with production shifting to OWN in California — Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios to close in December — It's a wrap for Harpo Studios in Chicago. — Officials for Oprah Winfrey said Tuesday that her West Loop TV studios will close in December.
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Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg Business
Jim Romenesko:
GateHouse lays off journalists at newspapers it acquired last year from Halifax Media — * Details of StarNews layoffs not disclosed (starnewsonline.com) — Newspaper downsizing continues. — I'm getting multiple reports of layoffs today at GateHouse papers that were formerly owned by Halifax Media …
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