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12:40 PM ET, March 12, 2015

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Tom Bergin / Reuters:
Google change allows company statements to top news searches  —  (Reuters) - A little-noticed change in the way Google selects search results has allowed company statements to top the list of news links shown when users search for information on businesses.  —  The measure may cost news …
Ian Hardy / BetaKit:
BuzzFeed to open Toronto newsroom  —  Popular top-10 list generator and cat-loving site BuzzFeed announced today its plans to open shop in Canada.  At the annual DX3 conference, Keith Hernandez, BuzzFeed's VP of Global Revenue, stated its first editorial newsroom will arrive in Toronto sometime “this spring.”
WWD:
WWD to change print frequency from daily to weekly beginning April 29  —  From the Editors: WWD Launching Weekly Format  —  The reader comes first.  That's the bedrock on which the best journalism is built and a core value of WWD for the past 105 years.  To better serve the global fashion …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @alizalicht
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC, Yahoo Expand Partnership with ‘GMA’ Segment, Katie Couric Reports  —  ABC and Yahoo are expanding their partnership to include a daily segment on “Good Morning America” built around personalities from Yahoo, broader distribution of clips from ABC shows and special programming contributed by Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric.
Jamie Talbot / Medium:
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta  —  Custom domains for publications  —  Everyone's stories and ideas, in more places.  —  Everyone who posts on Medium already owns the rights to the original content they publish …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Nielsen: 36% of US households subscribe to Netflix, 13% to Amazon Prime, 6.5% to Hulu Plus; traditional TV time falls almost 10% in second half of 2014  —  Nielsen Charts Reach of Video Streaming  —  About two in five American households now subscribe to a video streaming service like Netflix …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon's ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All  —  Amazon has a new crowd-publishing platform called Write On, which is a direct competitor to Wattpad, the social network with self-publishing authors offering up their content for free, and working together with the community to incorporate feedback into their ongoing work.
Discussion: Good E-Reader and GeekWire
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.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nuzzel Adds Custom Feeds To Help You Follow News About Tech, Beer, And Other Topics  —  News app Nuzzel is giving users a more topic-based approach to reading the news, through a new feature called Custom Feeds.  —  Created by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel's big selling point is simplicity …
Discussion: The Next Web
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal sign with Dutch ‘iTunes for news’  —  A picture of Blendle's laptop reader.  —  Business Insider |  Gigaom |  Nieman Lab  —  A trio of major American newspapers have signed up for Blendle, a so-called “iTunes for news” …
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
FCC releases full net neutrality rules in 313-page document  —  F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules  —  WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released 313 pages of rules detailing what would be allowed.
L.A. Biz:
Ad-supported video streaming service Tubi TV to stream more than 50 Paramount films for free  —  Tubi TV to stream Paramount films for free … Tubi TV, an ad-supported video streaming service, has entered into a licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures Corp. to stream more than 50 feature films for free to users.
Guardian:
Egyptian newspaper censored over report state institutions fail to pay tax  —  Al-Watan newspaper, normally pro-regime in its views, forced to scrap edition with front-page banner decrying ‘tax avoiders’ in government  —  Censors have forced a regime-friendly Egyptian newspaper to rewrite …
The New York Observer:
How the AP Botched Its Investigation of Civilian Deaths in the Israel-Hamas War  —  On February 13, 2015, the Associated Press published and distributed an article that stirred the conscience of the world.  It gave its many readers—"AP news content is seen by half the world's population," …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event  —  Facebook Dives Into March Madness with Turner Live-Streaming Deal  —  Social-media giant Facebook is teaming with Turner Sports to livestream coverage of the NCAA's March Madness college basketball bracket announcement Sunday.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Ex-soccer player Paul Gascoigne says Mirror Group phone hacking drove him to severe paranoia and alcoholism  —  Paul Gascoigne says Mirror phone hacking drove him to severe paranoia  —  Ex-footballer tells court he changed his mobile five times a month and says: 'I'd like to trade in my phone …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Paramount hit with 20-24 layoffs Wednesday in Viacom restructuring; Nickelodeon also affected
Rich Kirchen / Milwaukee Business Journal:
Journal, Scripps shareholders OK transaction; closing expected by early April
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside The Blade's settlement with the US government
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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
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Leslie Moonves: Showtime OTT Service Coming in ‘Not Too Distant Future’
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Nokia paying Wired magazine millions to produce editorial-style site MakeTechHuman in year-long content marketing campaign
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
Discussion: Bloomberg View
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Jay Rosen's NYU class releases trailer and website from Future of New York Times course
Discussion: Poynter and @jmcunning
Celeste LeCompte / Nieman Lab:
In media companies, the editorial staff shouldn't be kept in the dark about finances
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

 
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