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5:45 AM ET, February 14, 2016

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Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Apple is backing Vital Signs, a six-episode scripted television series starring Dr. Dre, likely to be distributed via Apple Music  —  Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series (Exclusive)  —  ‘Vital Signs,’ the technology giant's inaugural original …
Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure  —  Meet the Robin Hood of Science  —  The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Mattie Kahn / ELLE:
Meet the girls on the bus: reporters on the campaign trail for NBC in 2016 are overwhelmingly women  —  At NBC News, Women Are Telling the Stories  —  This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016  —  The cameras have stopped rolling in the Des Moines café that Andrea Mitchell has turned …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Boston Globe election reporter James Pindell on digital-first reporting, using platforms, and staying online  —  James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe's election coverage to everyone by being everywhere  —  In the past five days, Boston Globe political reporter …
Discussion: @niemanlab
John Koblin / New York Times:
John Dickerson, Molded by News Legends, Hones His Skills at CBS  —  WASHINGTON — By the standards of Sunday morning news shows, the handoff of the anchor's position on “Face the Nation” on CBS was really quite peaceful.  —  A few days after the longtime anchor Bob Schieffer announced …
Discussion: @koblin, @saletan and @brianstelter
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Copyright lawyer uses DMCA to try to take down copy of unflattering article about himself  —  Embattled copyright lawyer uses DMCA to remove article about himself  —  Marc Randazza tells Wordpress that the unflattering story “is not fair use.”  —  Well-known copyright lawyer Marc Randazza used …
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
China's young reporters give up on journalism: 'You can't write what you want'  —  The ever greater constraints placed on news reporting by Xi Jinping mean many Chinese journalists see no point in pursuing a media career  —  hen a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008 …
Discussion: @marklittlenews and Associated Press, Thanks:@refsrc
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent launches $4.95 annual subscription to remove ads from uTorrent  —  BitTorrent has unveiled a new annual subscription option that removes ads from the torrent-streaming service.  The launch follows a short beta period, and the option — priced at a modest $4.95 per year …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Mount St. Mary's College offers to reinstate newspaper adviser Ed Egan; faculty votes to ask college president to resign  —  Mount St. Mary's faculty asks president to resign by Monday morning  —  Amid a national controversy over academic freedom, the faculty of Mount St. Mary's University …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
YouTube buys BandPage to boost direct-to-fan features  —  “We are very excited to announce that BandPage is joining YouTube, a move which dramatically accelerates our shared goal of helping musicians everywhere thrive,” announced BandPage in a blog post.  —  “BandPage is dedicated …
Re/code:
Sources: as early as May, Snapchat will let you subscribe to Discover publishers, ensuring their content always appears on your Stories page  —  Snapchat Wants to Let Users Subscribe to Their Favorite ‘Discover’ Publishers  —  Snapchat is working on new plans to boost traffic to the publishers that use its “Discover” platform.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Global expansion helps The New York Times strengthen its reporting around the world and expand potential readers and revenue streams  —  Is Global Expansion Good for Times Readers?  —  If all goes well for The Times in its latest incarnation — a Spanish-language site …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Following latest release of his emails by Gawker, Clinton press aide Philippe Reines accuses Washington DC media and Erik Wemple of hypocrisy  —  Philippe Reines rips Beltway media, Erik Wemple Blog for ‘hypocrisy’  —  Earlier this week, Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter highlighted a new set …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Independent newspapers closed, but will continue online, after i sale to Johnston Press  — Evgeny Lebedev tells staff: 'We faced a choice: manage the continued decline of print, or convert the digital foundation we've built into a sustainable, profitable future'
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
i to expand into Northern Ireland, launch a new website, and hire more than 30 staff
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside Business Insider Deutschland as it expands original coverage and exchanges content with other Axel Springer publications
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Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Eddy Cue says Apple has 11M+ Apple Music subs and 782M iCloud users, and Craig Federighi addresses complaints of bugs in Apple apps on John Gruber's podcast
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times collaborates with This American Life on a special investigative report
Patrick Frater / Variety:
China's Baidu Receives $2.8 Billion Offer for Online Video Giant iQIYI
Discussion: Forbes