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9:50 PM ET, March 4, 2015

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Michael Learmonth / International Business Times:
Sources: HBO's new streaming service to be called “HBO Now”, will cost $15/month, include Apple TV as launch partner  —  HBO In Talks With Apple To Be Launch Partner For Coming Web Service ‘HBO Now’: Exclusive  —  HBO is in talks with Apple to make Apple TV one of the launch partners …
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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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines exchanges barbs about FOIA and email records with reporters for Free Beacon and Gawker, copying in other reporters  —  So, Philippe Reines Sent Us an Email  —  Philippe Reines, the longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, sent Gawker a long note last night …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
AP considering legal action for Clinton docs  —  The Associated Press is considering legal action for extremely long delays on its Freedom of Information Act requests for records related to Hillary Clinton's tenure at the Department of State.  —  “We have not received any documents yet …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
James King / Gawker:
Former Daily Mail US writer talks about the publication's dishonesty, sensationalism, plagiarism, more  —  My Year Ripping Off the Web with the Daily Mail Online  —  On July 11 of last year, I arrived to work at the MailOnline newsroom in New York City and saw Keith Poole, our managing editor, standing outside smoking a cigarette.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Weak Tribune Publishing and Scripps earnings make the case for spinning off newspapers
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
AP will use software to write NCAA game stories  —  Automated Insights, a company that provides language generation software to The Associated Press and other organizations, announced Wednesday the news cooperative will use the software to produce thousands of stories about collegiate sports.
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Guardian:
BBC to broadcast Delhi rape documentary banned in India on BBC4 tonight at 10pm  —  India's Daughter: BBC brings forward airing of Delhi rape documentary  —  Film on brutal attack on Jyoti Singh to be broadcast in UK on Wednesday night despite being banned by Indian authorities
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Annie Banerji / Agence France-Presse:
India bans broadcast of BBC film showing gang-rapist
Brent Lang / Variety:
Major theater chains to boycott Netflix-owned drama over simultaneous streaming and theatrical release plans  —  Major Theater Chains to Boycott Netflix's ‘Beasts of No Nation’  —  Major theater chains will boycott the release of “Beasts of No Nation,” the Cary Fukunaga drama that Netflix bought …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Interview with Hearst exec Steve Swartz on investment in business media, spinouts, and streaming  —  Cosmo Aside, Information Is Sexy for Hearst  —  Magazine and TV giant invests in business media and young digital brands  —  As chief executive of Hearst Corp., Steve Swartz leads …
Discussion: Media Wire Daily and FishbowlNY
Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen acquires eXelate for about $200M to expand into serving programmatic advertisers  —  Nielsen to Acquire Data Specialist eXelate  —  Measurement giant Nielsen said it has acquired eXelate, a data and technology company that helps digital advertisers better target online advertising.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on the impact of ad-funded models on artists, and the importance of Amanda Palmer's new campaign  —  As Amanda Palmer joins Patreon, CEO Jack Conte tells us why (interview)  —  “What most people don't really understand is that all content creators …
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Examining the power of Pop-Up Magazine and whether journalism turned into performances still qualifies as journalism  —  The power of Pop-Up Magazine's live journalism  —  ON A NOVEMBER NIGHT LAST YEAR, a group of journalists and artists gathered around a conference table backstage …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook  —  Elizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times  —  For the last eight years the veteran New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz has built a lively and enviable following on Facebook, which he has described as his 21st-century version …
Discussion: The Verge, @tomgara and @edmundlee
 
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