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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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@ibnlive and @tufailelif
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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
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
Deborah Turness May Be Out as NBC News Chief
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@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.
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
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.
Discussion:
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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