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4:05 PM ET, March 12, 2015

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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 …
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 …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Discover ad prices: $0.10/view, split 70/30 or 50/50 between publishers and Snapchat, depending on who sells ads  —  Snapchat's Discover Publishers Are Asking for Big Ad Rates — And They're Getting Them  —  Snapchat's Discover platform is one of the hottest properties in media.
Discussion: @kurtwagner8, Thanks:@steverubel
John Consoli / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS and Turner say NCAA tournament ads have brought in 10% more revenue than last year  —  MBPT Spotlight: CBS, Turner Say They've Taken In Record Amount Of Ad Dollars For NCAA Men's Championship Tournament  —  The start of the 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship tournament is less …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event
Discussion: Tubefilter
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” …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
After the archive came down: The New Yorker's revamped paywall is driving new readers and subscribers  —  The trick to turning readers into a group of frothing hoarders: Tell them they can dive into The New Yorker's archive and leave with as many stories as their arms can bear.
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.”
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard's Apple Watch app integrates with iPhone for handoff of stories summarized on watch  —  Sneak Peek At Flipboard's Apple Watch App  —  Among the many new applications designed for Apple Watch, there are still a few big names who had yet to reveal how their apps will look and operate.
Discussion: Pocket-lint, Thai Tech and ReadWrite
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.
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
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Kansas statehouse press corps stage walkout rather than take part in an off-the-record briefing from legislators  —  Why Kansas statehouse reporters staged a walkout  —  It may have all been just a big misunderstanding.  But the Kansas statehouse press corps scored a point for transparency on Monday …
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
Lionsgate Gets $375 Million for Film Production From China's Hunan TV  —  Lionsgate Entertainment is getting a $375 million cash infusion from China's Hunan TV, sources close to the deal confirmed Thursday.  —  The two companies have sealed a broader deal, which began to come together in January …
Discussion: Variety and Los Angeles Times
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A competitive landscape, and disgruntled partners and advertisers, challenge YouTube's dominance  —  YouTube Turns 10: How Competition Crashed the Party  —  There could be said to be a poster boy for YouTube, it may well be Freddie Wong.  Known online as FreddieW, the 29-year-old is the creator of …
Discussion: @petersontee and VideoInk
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun raises weekend cover prices to 70p on Saturday and £1 on Sunday  —  The Sun is raising its cover price by 10p on Saturdays and by 20p on Sundays.  —  The moves means that The Sun on Saturday will now cost 70p and The Sun on Sunday will be £1 (the same price as the News of the World …
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
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