Mediagazer: NFL to sell national rights for Jaguars-Bills game to a streaming company, allowing local TV broadcast only in Jacksonville and Buffalo (Kevin Clark/Wall Street Journal)

5:40 PM ET, March 23, 2015

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NFL to sell national rights for Jaguars-Bills game to a streaming company, allowing local TV broadcast only in Jacksonville and Buffalo — NFL to Broadcast a Game Nationally Via Internet Only — Move marks first time league will air national broadcast solely by streaming

Discussion: Capital New York, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Re/code, GeekWire, @pkafka and Variety

Susan Currie Sivek / Mediashift:

‘Netflix for Magazines’ Services Explain Why They're Not Doomed — It must be depressing to hear so many people say that your company's business model has no future. — Some magazine industry observers have recently said that the “all-you-can-read” or “Netflix for magazines” subscription model is doomed.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:

To stand out from the tech crowd, The Verge broadens coverage to pop culture, science, and even cars — This is my next step: How The Verge wants to grow beyond tech blogging — What will it look like to hail an Uber from your wrist? How easy will it be to buy a ticket to see Avengers: Age of Ultron using your watch?

Discussion: @chadmumm, @internetryan, @lock and @backlon

Chris Thompson / Poynter:

Reporters use Yik Yak to get instant audience take on Ted Cruz's big campaign speech — Vox Bloomberg Politics The Washington Post — Earlier this morning, Senator Ted Cruz declared his candidacy for President of the United States before a packed auditorium at Liberty University.

Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, Mediaite, @parsely and Hit & Run

Patrick Frater / Variety:

Netflix Launch in Australia Gets Qualified Welcome From Producers Organization — The launch this week of movie subscription service Netflix in Australia and New Zealand got a qualified welcome from Australian producers. — Consumers will find that the service launches (Tuesday …

Discussion: Mashable, ZDNet, Associated Press, Associated Press, TechRadar.com, sbs.com.au, Business Insider Australia, TechGeek, Sydney Morning Herald, CNET and Guardian

Matthew Gilbert / Boston Globe:

Cable networks invest more in documentaries, driven by ratings successes like PBS's “The Roosevelts” and HBO's Monday programming — TV is giving documentaries their due — You'll be forgiven if you've felt rather glum about televised nonfiction in the past 15 years.

Discussion: New York Times

Associated Press:

Police unable to confirm gang rape at University of Virginia — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Police say they cannot confirm that the gang rape described in a Rolling Stone article last year occurred at the University of Virginia. — Police Chief Timothy Longo said during a news conference Monday …

Discussion: New York Times, Poynter, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, @ap, Associated Press, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone and @jessicavalenti

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Rolling Stone expects Columbia University's review of its controversial campus rape article in about two weeks, will publish in full

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Times, Poynter, Talking Points Memo, @erikwemple, @dylanbyers, Business Insider, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, WBAA, bookforum.com, FishbowlNY and NPR

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Twitch accounts were compromised, passwords for all users reset — Uh oh, game streaming service Twitch has posted a short notice to its blog warning that there “may have been” some unauthorized access to some Twitch user information. — It says that affected users will be contacted directly with additional details.

Discussion: The Official Twitch Blog, ZDNet, @nattgarun and Engadget

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Brian Williams Makes First Public Appearance Since NBC Suspension — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams made an appearance this weekend at a prep school fundraiser at New Jersey casino, his first since starting a six-month suspension for embellishing or fabricating a variety of tales …

Discussion: The Two River Times, New Jersey Online, TVNewser, NY Daily News, Mashable, Washington Post, Newsday, Daily Mail, ABC News, Page Six, Asbury Park Press and FOX News Radio

Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:

Solana Pyne joins Quartz as head of video from Global Post — Quartz Taps New Head of Video — Maybe it's just us. But we take extra delight in the fact that the initials of the person who will soon be reporting to Xana Antunes at Quartz as head of video are S.P.

Discussion: @niemanlab and @kevinjdelaney

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Sun newspaper source in Ministry of Defence Bettina Jordan-Barber jailed for leaking stories — MoD ‘mole’ Bettina Jordan-Barber jailed over Sun leaks — Ministry strategist sentenced to 12 months imprisonment after leaking stories to paper about army failures in war zones, sexual misconduct and disciplinary cases

Discussion: Press Gazette and Press Gazette

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Mydio integrates Spotify with stories from Der Spiegel and Axel Springer, creating curated playlist of music and news — Meet Mydio: Personalised radio for music and news mix — The stand-out entry for news at the Media Hack Day in Berlin yesterday lets users combine their Spotify account with automated news articles

Dave Lee / BBC:

BBC relaunches website, moving from desktop to fully responsive — BBC News switches PC users to responsive site — Users will be automatically switched at around 1400 GMT — The desktop version of the BBC News website will be switched off on Monday and all visitors will be directed to a newer, responsive design.

Discussion: Daily Express and @nycjim