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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
NYT is planning to offer its NYT Now app for free within weeks, currently costs $8 per month — Times plans to make NYT Now mobile app free — The New York Times is expected to announce in the coming weeks that its NYT Now mobile app will become a free product with a number of changes …
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@cwarzel, @jbenton, @joepompeo and @joepompeo
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Despite the pervasive myth of Fox News' political influence, audience numbers aren't big enough to sway primaries — Fox News, Paper Tiger — The network is better at employing presidential candidates than electing them. — As early as September 2010, journalists were using the phrase …
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
BBC and BitTorrent partner to offer 10 episode Doctor Who bundle with two free videos and $12 for full box-set — Doctor Who gets official BitTorrent ‘box-set’ from the BBC — Broadcaster follows Radiohead's Thom Yorke in testing legal file-sharing distribution with 10-episode bundle
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The Wrap, BetaNews, Multichannel News, PSFK, Electronista, Polygon, PC World, The A.V. Club, VentureBeat, @stuartdredge, Tech Digest, Doctor Who TV, GeekWire, Wired.co.uk, Quartz, The Verge, Guardian and Digital Spy
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
The Daily Telegraph's editor in chief Jason Seiken has quit — Jason Seiken, The Daily Telegraph's chief content officer and editor in chief, is quitting his role at the British broadsheet newspaper. — Seiken joined The Daily Telegraph in 2013 from PBS.
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Guardian, Digital Spy, BBC, @5minutes10, The Independent, @joshhollis, BuzzFeed, The Drum, @beaubodor, @gnarlybole, @brasseye, @jayrayner1, Press Gazette, City A.M., @ft, @aljwhite, @richardwaghorne, @danna_bitar, Financial Times, @ft, @paulxharris, @davidwastell and @alexckaufman
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
9th Circuit rules Netflix isn't subject to disability law — Are websites “public accommodations?” Federal courts have split on the question. — A federal appeals court ruled (PDF) yesterday that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) doesn't apply to Netflix, since the online video provider is …
Patrick Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Times Censored Its Own Report Of A Terrorism Trial — The newspaper wanted to show the effect secret trials can have on open justice. — A jury last week failed to reach a verdict on a second and more serious charge of plotting terrorist attacks in the UK, The Times reported.
Discussion:
@dlepeska
Michelle Castillo / Adweek:
AOL to host Fox Sports' game highlights and shows online — Fox Sports Strikes a Digital Deal With AOL — Further expanding its sports coverage, AOL today unveiled a multi-year video content partnership with Fox Sports. — The new deal includes original Fox Sports digital properties …
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Tubefilter, Hollywood Reporter, AdExchanger and Deadline
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Hulu beats lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data with Facebook — The “Like” button collects data, but there's no master list of videos watched. — Online video provider Hulu has decisively won a lawsuit claiming it violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) …
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Consumerist, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters and The Hill
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
NYPD Claims It Can't Find ‘Widely-Circulated’ Memo That Cut Off Press Access To Precinct Crime Blotters — MuckRock is again reporting on a mysteriously missing document — one that was previously acknowledged to exist but come public records request time, simply can't be found.
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MuckRock
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CBS launches 60 Minutes Productions to work with CBS Films to adapt segments into films, starting with a story about the Boston Marathon bombing — CBS to turn ‘60 Minutes’ Segment into ‘Patriots Day’ Movie — A news story that was featured on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” …
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Deadline, Flavorwire, INFORUM, TVbytheNumbers and @brianstelter
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Screenshots shared on social media give readers a chance to supplement or replace headlines — How The Screenshort Could Save Us From Horrible Headlines — So far screenshorts — screenshots of text shared on social media — have had an excellent 2015. They're bleeding from their origins …
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Journalism.co.uk, @fmanjoo, @millie and @anildash
Andrew Hampp / Billboard:
Sprint Denies Investment In Jay Z's Tidal As Aspiro Delists From Nasdaq Stockholm — Sprint and parent company Softbank have not purchased a stake in Tidal, a spokesperson tells Billboard, despite a report from the New York Post on Wednesday (April 1) night.
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New York Post and USA Today