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12:15 AM ET, March 18, 2015

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Longtime political blogger Mickey Kaus quits Daily Caller after Editor in Chief Tucker Carlson pulls column critical of Fox News  —  Mickey Kaus quits Daily Caller after Tucker Carlson pulls critical Fox News column  —  The blogger Mickey Kaus has quit his job at The Daily Caller …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Apple offers to share viewer data with partners for online TV service to enable better ad targeting  —  Apple offers to share TV data to entice programming partners  —  Apple is offering to share data with programming partners to get them on board with its cable-like TV network package, The Post has learned.
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Wall Street Journal:
Unbundling Pay-TV Brings New Questions
Discussion: LostRemote and TIME
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Gigaom's challenges: poor leadership, spending beyond means, inattention to longterm problems  —  Digital Media Darlings Unfazed by the Fall of the News Site Gigaom  —  In the week and a half since the technology news site Gigaom stopped publishing, it has been held up as a cautionary tale for media in a go-go era.
Michael Fitzgerald / Nieman Reports:
What Reporters Need to Know About Covering Net Neutrality  —  With news audiences moving online, journalists have a vested interest in coverage of this complicated topic  —  Imagine that the water in your home runs more slowly in the morning, when you most need it.
Discussion: @riparian, @johnhendel and @jbrodkin
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
The FCC's internal watchdog has opened an investigation into agency's net neutrality rule-making process, according to a top Republican lawmaker
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Jay Yarow named executive editor at Business Insider  —  Jay Yarow, formerly the deputy editor at Business Insider, has been named executive editor there, according to an announcement from Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget.  Yarow replaces former Executive Editor Gus Lubin …
John Cook / Gawker Politburo:
Gawker launches Public Pool, a site that collates original White House pool reports; raw copy normally available only to media on WH email distribution list  —  Here Are All the White House Pool Reports  —  Much of the mundane, day-to-day media coverage of the president's activities …
Discussion: @nora_kelly, @johnjcook and @onthemedia
Daniel Carp / Duke Reporters' Lab:
How the Rouhani Meter fact-checks Iran's president from 6,000 miles away  —  Fact-checkers aren't welcome in Iran, so Farhad Souzanchi and the Rouhani Meter team work from Canada.  —  The capital of Iran's fact-checking movement is not in Tehran, but Toronto.
Jim Romenesko:
Gannett CEO Gracia Martore's total compensation: $12.4M in 2014 vs. $7.9M in 2013  — via Gannett's Proxy Statement  —  . The figures were released Monday in Gannett's annual proxy filing with the SEC.  —  President/Broadcasting David Lougee -$2,487,680  —  President Gannett Digital Ventures Jack Williams - $2,913,339
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Ex-Washington Post columnist Jason Reid has his new ESPN radio show halted after criticizing station owner in a column  —  ESPN radio suddenly halts ‘The Man Cave’, and some blame NFL's Redskins  —  Sports columnist Jason Reid said goodbye to his Washington Post colleagues on Wednesday …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Belgian ISPs win pirate tax case against music rights group SABAM, court rules that they cannot be taxed as a public broadcast medium  —  Internet Providers Win Court Case Over “Pirate Tax”  —  Over the past several years Belgian music rights group SABAM has pressured Internet providers to take responsibility for online piracy.
Discussion: PC World and Techdirt
 
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Neil Midgley / Guardian:
Scripps meeting with BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead, pressurizing corporation to sell its 50% stake in joint venture UKTV
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Vanessa Kingori Named British GQ Publisher
Discussion: WWD
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Private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC in advanced talks to buy most of Digital First Media's assets for $400M
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Sun launches political website SunNation as a stand-alone site beyond its paywall
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube To Replace Annotations With Smarter, Mobile-Optimized “Cards”
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Google studying ways to assess the quality of websites based on their accuracy
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Politico Europe to launch April 21, with weekly print edition starting April 23; joint venture with Axel Springer includes main newsroom in Brussels
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed UK hit 18.8M unique visitors in February and is expanding editorial staff from 35 to 50 in 2015
 

 
From Techmeme:

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database, used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links, in March

 
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