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8:00 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: Business Insider and @kurtwagner8, Thanks:@steverubel
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
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Helene Sears / Guardian:
Guardian Apple Watch app tailors news to time of day and week and features handoff to iPhone app
Discussion: The Drum and Press Gazette
Chris Thompson / Poynter:
Univision host Rodner Figueroa fired for racist Michelle Obama remark  —  In this June 22, 2014 file photo, Rodner Figueroa accepts the award for outstanding daytime talent in Spanish for “El Gordo y la Flaca” at the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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” …
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 …
Discussion: Forbes
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook teams with Turner sports to stream “bracket lounge” NCAA March Madness fan event
Discussion: Tubefilter
CB Insights:
Online media companies raised $813M in VC in 2014, a 145% increase over 2013, led by Vice with a pair of $250M investments in Q3  —  Venture Capitalists are Bullish on News: Funding to Media / Fat Content Startups Jumps 145% YoY  —  Venture capital investors continue to invade the media industry …
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.”
Bloomberg Business:
Charter in talks to buy Advance Publication's Bright House cable network in an all-stock deal worth about $12B  —  Charter Said in Talks to Buy Newhouse's Bright House Networks  —  (Bloomberg) — Charter Communications Inc., the U.S. cable company that was outbid in an effort to buy …
Natalie Mortimer / The Drum:
BBC to give out 1m coding devices to kids as part of new Make it Digital initiative  —  The BBC has launched a new digital initiative which will see 1 million coding devices distributed to to every child in year 7 across the UK.  —  The Make it Digital programme, which launched today …
Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times:
FCC releases full net neutrality rules confirming it will treat Internet as telecommunications and decide what is acceptable on a case-by-case basis  —  F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules  —  WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility …
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.
 
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Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
Lionsgate Gets $375 Million for Film Production From China's Hunan TV
Discussion: Variety
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Kansas statehouse press corps stage walkout rather than take part in an off-the-record briefing from legislators
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A competitive landscape, and disgruntled partners and advertisers, challenge YouTube's dominance
Discussion: @petersontee and VideoInk
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun raises weekend cover prices to 70p on Saturday and £1 on Sunday
Discussion: Guardian
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nuzzel Adds Custom Feeds To Help You Follow News About Tech, Beer, And Other Topics
Discussion: The Next Web
Jamie Talbot / Medium:
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC, Yahoo Expand Partnership with ‘GMA’ Segment, Katie Couric Reports
 Earlier Picks: 
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon's ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All
Discussion: Good E-Reader and GeekWire
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
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
Discussion: @jonathanwpeters
Capital New York:
Interview with Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler on competition, Reuters TV, websites, layoffs, Jack Shafer, more