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6:40 PM ET, March 27, 2015

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Caroline Little is stepping down as CEO and President of Newspaper Association of America  —  Caroline LIttle will be leaving her job as president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America at the end of August, NAA announced this afternoon.  —  She will have been head …
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Telegraph under Murdoch MacLennan: digital gurus, multiple top editors, and advertiser influence on stories  —  Tumult at the Daily Telegraph  —  From colonels to clickbait - Henry Mance on the identity crisis of an establishment newspaper  —  Tony Gallagher descended to his office — defeated.
Discussion: @peterjukes, @raju and @ravisomaiya
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
New SEC rules allow film fans to invest in Hollywood productions rather than donate via crowdsourcing  —  SEC Ruling Changes Game for Hollywood Film Financing  —  The rules for movie financing were radically redrawn Wednesday by a landmark Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that opens …
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Discussion: RAIN News and Digital Music News
Ed Sherman / Poynter:
As sports teams move press away from the action and into press boxes, reporters say coverage suffers  —  NCAA tournament: Sportswriters getting pushed out of the good seats  —  When Tyler Hansbrough led North Carolina to the national title in 2009, Dana O'Neil left her seat on the floor …
Discussion: The Newspaper Guild
Mark Wilson / BetaNews:
Security flaw in UK's Johnston Press sites could redirect visitors to malicious sites  —  Exclusive: Widespread security flaw affects hundreds of UK news sites  —  A security flaw has been discovered in a number of UK news websites, potentially placing 24.5 million users at risk.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Madison Square Garden to Split Into Two Companies  —  The Madison Square Garden Company said Friday that it has filed an initial Form 10 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go ahead with a split it has been considering.
Discussion: The Wrap
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World reporter's conviction for paying for leaks overturned  —  Prison officer in same case is cleared as court of appeal rules that Judge Charles Wide misdirected the jury  —  The controversial police investigation into journalists paying for leaks from public officials …
Discussion: BBC, Poynter and Press Gazette
The Information:
Google partners with Mummy producer Sean Daniel Co. to make its augmented reality game Ingress into a TV show  —  Google Takes Its Web Game to TV  —  When Google launched a gaming studio five years ago, it was largely an effort to keep a valued employee.  Now, the first game developed by the studio …
Adam Lusher / The Independent:
Clean Reader: New app will ‘clean up’ bad language in e-books  —  Lady Chatterley's Lover and Trainspotting may never be read in quite the same way again.  To the fury of authors, a new app has been introduced for e-books that can cover up the rude words in electronic versions of novels and offer a “politer” alternative.
 
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic Online:
Jonah Peretti says NYT should make print edition more expensive before going online only
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Andy Carvin / Medium:
Independent Yemeni news outlets sacked, journalists kidnapped
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Brianna Lee / International Business Times:
Mexico Press Freedom: Attacks On Journalists Surged 80% Under Peña Nieto, Report Finds
Discussion: @lheron and Reuters
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Former Beats CEO David Hyman launches invite-only Chosen, a talent-show-like game app
 

 
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Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that the Chinese company is considering selling a majority stake in TikTok US

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

 
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