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11:00 PM ET, March 11, 2015

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Celeste LeCompte / Nieman Lab:
In media companies, the editorial staff shouldn't be kept in the dark about finances  —  When a tiny post appeared on Gigaom Monday night, noting that the company had ceased operations and was now controlled by its creditors, every push notification I allow on my phone started buzzing, flashing, and beeping.
Discussion: @justinnxt
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Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Gigaom's Mathew Ingram on the site's sudden closure: “One minute you're working on a story, and the next minute someone is telling you you don't have a job”
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Guardian corrects, clarifies articles on Whisper app privacy, takes down commentary post  —  Guardian Backpedals on Whisper App Privacy Violations  —  The Guardian on Tuesday clarified and corrected a series of controversial articles it published late last year about Whisper, a mobile app designed to transmit messages anonymously.
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Associated Press sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records after repeated unfulfilled FOIA requests, including one from 5 years ago  —  AP sues State Department, seeking access to Clinton records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Jay Rosen's NYU class releases trailer and website from Future of New York Times course  —  The Future of The Times, as Seen by an N.Y.U. Class  —  Jay Rosen, who does lots of innovative things in his role as journalism professor at New York University, came up with a new wrinkle for the current semester …
Discussion: @jmcunning and Poynter
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Ex-soccer player Paul Gascoigne says Mirror Group phone hacking drove him to severe paranoia and alcoholism
Discussion: Associated Press
John McDermott / Digiday:
Snapchat seeking deals with sports leagues and networks to feature live sports, starting with NCAA Final Four, plans ad revenue split  —  Coming to Snapchat: live sports broadcasting  —  Snapchat has grand ambitions to become a dominant mobile media platform, and it has taken one step closer with live sports.
Rich Kirchen / Milwaukee Business Journal:
Journal, Scripps shareholders OK transaction; closing expected by early April  —  Journal Communications Inc. shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of shifting the company's television and radio stations to E.W. Scripps Co. and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to a new newspaper-led independent company called Journal Media Group.
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Paramount hit with 20-24 layoffs Wednesday in Viacom restructuring; Nickelodeon also affected  —  Paramount & Nickelodeon Latest Hit With Layoffs In Viacom Restructuring  —  EXCLUSIVE: At least 20 to 40 rank and file employees across all divisions of Paramount Pictures have been laid off, we've learned.
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside The Blade's settlement with the US government  —  The US government and The Blade of Toledo, OH, agree on at least one thing: The government owes the newspaper $18,000.  —  That's the result of a settlement agreement announced last week that arises from a March 2014 incident …
Discussion: @jonathanwpeters
Capital New York:
Interview with Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler on competition, Reuters TV, websites, layoffs, Jack Shafer, more  —  The 60-second interview: Stephen Adler, editor in chief, Reuters  —  CAPITAL: Reuters has competed historically against newswires like the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Leslie Moonves: Showtime OTT Service Coming in ‘Not Too Distant Future’  —  CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves has made it clear that Showtime is poised to join HBO in offering an OTT service “in the not too distant future.”  —  Speaking Wednesday morning at the Deutsche Bank investor conference …
Kevin Young / BBC Blogs:
Behind BBC's “Live and Social” desk, which verifies breaking news on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and regularly beats wires  —  When Twitter's ahead of the wires it pays to be ‘Live and Social’  —  is a senior broadcast journalist in the BBC Newsroom
Discussion: @dw_innovation and @sarahmarshall
Steven Levy / Backchannel:
Outgoing White House comms director Dan Pfeiffer: disaggregation of media makes impact harder to achieve, but going direct to specific audiences is easier  —  How Obama Became a YouTube (and Buzzfeed, and Funny or Die...) Star  —  White House Communications Czar Dan Pfeiffer reveals the strategy …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media Launches Entertainment Division, Signs With WME (Exclusive)  —  A version of this story first appeared in the March 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.  —  Vox Media is looking to video for its future.  —  The digital media company, which owns and operates a collection …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Nokia paying Wired magazine millions to produce editorial-style site MakeTechHuman in year-long content marketing campaign  —  Nokia Taps Wired for Seven-Figure Content-Marketing Campaign  —  Magazine's Brand Lab Plans to Tackle Thorny Topics  —  Nokia — the technology supplier …
Discussion: Forbes
 
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Seattle's GeekWire marks four years as an indie tech news site, profitable and growing, funded through ads, events, membership
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
After 11 hours, the App Store and iTunes are back online
Wall Street Journal:
Sony to offer PlayStation Vue Internet TV service in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia within two weeks, plans nationwide rollout by the end of the year
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches City Guide/New York, a Chinese-Language Print Publication …
Discussion: Capital New York
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Times's media editor, Alex Spence, departs after Page 3 drama
Discussion: @anyabike and Press Gazette
David Gilbert / International Business Times:
Anonymous launches boycott of Daily Dot after it published a review by a hacker who worked with FBI
Discussion: The Hill
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Quartz plans to expand into Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa this summer, joining trend of US digital organizations in global expansion
Discussion: Guardian and Talking Biz News