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6:10 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 …
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
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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian, FT, CNN, Reuters, and Economist launch new programmatic advertising alliance Pangaea to take on Facebook and Google  —  Guardian, FT, CNN and Reuters in ad deal to take on Facebook and Google  —  Pangaea Alliance initiative will give brands access to more than 110 million online readers using programmatic advertising system
Discussion: @heathat
Rich Kane / Editor and Publisher:
Australian news aggregator Inkl gives users ad-free access to paywalled stories on LA Times, SMH, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, others for $15/month  —  An App In the Crowd  —  Flipboard.  Circa.  SmartNews.  Taptu.  Pocket.  Prismatic.  Feedly.  Google Play Newsstand.
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 …
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
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Rhapsody subscribers can now share 30M+ full-length songs in Twitter timelines  —  Rhapsody subscribers can now share full songs on Twitter for all to hear  —  Twitter's first serious attempt at capitalizing on our never-ending thirst for music was an abject failure.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Kantar report: Biggest advertisers cut spending by 4.2% in 2014 amid shift to digital media  —  Biggest Advertisers Are Sending Their Dollars to Digital  —  The country's largest marketers are slashing their advertising budgets as they shift a larger portion of their spending to digital …
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Unbundling Pay-TV Brings New Questions
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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
Discussion: PC World and Techdirt
Neil Midgley / Guardian:
Scripps meeting with BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead, pressurizing corporation to sell its 50% stake in joint venture UKTV
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Vanessa Kingori Named British GQ Publisher
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC Jimmy Savile abuse report to be published in May
Discussion: ITV, BBC, Sky News, The Courier and Digital Spy
Reuters:
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC in advanced talks to buy most of Digital First Media's assets for $400M
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account

 
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