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12:45 PM ET, March 13, 2015

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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
Twitter's TV Timelines experiment collects show conversations and features related photos, videos, and more  —  Twitter experiments with ‘TV Timelines’  —  Twitter is launching a bold TV experiment and if it takes, it could change the face of second-screen viewing — at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
Kelly Weill / Capital New York:
NYPD computer network used to edit Wikipedia articles about victims of police altercations, stop-and-frisk, and prominent political and police leaders  —  Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza  —  Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network …
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.
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 …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Single-copy newspaper sales are collapsing, and it's largely a self-inflicted wound  —  Have you bought a lonely single copy of a newspaper lately, from a newsstand or a newspaper box?  Probably not.  Neither are many other people.  —  Single-copy newspaper sales …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Quartz story uses three shades of text to indicate fully-confirmed, reported, and unconfirmed information  —  Quartz experiment: Shades of gray distinguish facts from hearsay  —  As of Sunday night, there remained many unknown elements about the over-the-top subscription service that HBO will launch this year.
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
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 …
BBC:
Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors for nine banned news websites, allowing them to be seen in 11 countries  —  Access to blocked sites restored by Reporters Without Borders  —  Websites banned in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other countries, are being made available to their citizens.
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 …
The Moscow Times:
CNN Set to Get New Russian Broadcasting License  —  CNN will receive a license for broadcasts in Russia within “days or weeks,” the country's media watchdog chief said, allowing the U.S. network to return to a market it left last year over the introduction of a tough new media advertising law.
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 …
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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 …
 
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