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1:15 PM ET, March 13, 2015

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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TiVo Completes Acquisition of Aereo Trademarks, Customer Lists for $1 Million  —  TiVo's purchase of certain assets from Aereo — the Internet TV streaming startup that was forced to shut down last year after losing a copyright-infringement case brought by broadcasters …
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 …
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.
 
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