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6:55 AM ET, March 13, 2015

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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  —  Introducing Moments from the Guardian App, built for Apple Watch  —  We're excited that soon the Guardian app will be updated with a brand-new experience created specially for Apple Watch …
Discussion: The Drum and Press Gazette
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Legal wrangling between Whisper and the Guardian is over, but some accusations about location data remain  —  The Whisper Campaign That Torched A Guardian Story  —  The Guardian went too far in its claims of what Whisper could do and was doing.  But so too, it seems, did Whisper.
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
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 …
Elena Milashina / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Russia files charges against Sergei Dorovskoi, accused of masterminding 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov  —  In landmark case, Russia charges alleged mastermind in Domnikov murder  —  In an unprecedented move, investigators in Moscow officially filed charges today against Sergei Dorovskoi …
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)
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg Business:
Howard Stern's $80M SiriusXM deal ends in December; he says no podcast, but future of SiriusXM without him unclear  —  Can SiriusXM Survive Without Howard Stern?  —  The satellite radio service wants to keep Stern, but faces a possible future without its top talent behind the mic
Discussion: @morningmoneyben
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 …
Saba Hamedy / Los Angeles Times:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures videos reach 1 billion monthly views  —  Buzzfeed Motion Pictures, a division of the Buzzfeed media company, announced in an internal memo Thursday that its videos have accumulated 1 billion monthly views.  —  The news comes just six months after the Motion Pictures division …
Jennie Punter / Variety:
New rules will require Canadian video-on-demand services to offer exclusive content without subscription over the Internet  —  Canadian TV Regulators Shake Up System With New Content Rules  —  Canada's broadcast regulator today announced sweeping regulatory changes and several initiatives …
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 …
 
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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
John Consoli / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS and Turner say NCAA tournament ads have brought in 10% more revenue than last year
Discussion: Forbes and Variety
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: Nuzzel Blog and The Next Web
Jamie Talbot / Medium:
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta
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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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC, Yahoo Expand Partnership with ‘GMA’ Segment, Katie Couric Reports
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon's ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All
Discussion: Good E-Reader and GeekWire