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11:05 PM ET, February 15, 2016

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Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
Inside TMZ: How the celebrity news site gets stories through a vast network of industry sources  —  The Digital Dirt  —  In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel and casino, in Atlantic City.
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Bahrain arrests 4 US journalists during protests marking anniversary of 2011 uprising, one of them identified as freelancer Anna Therese Day  —  4 US reporters arrested in Bahrain on uprising's anniversary  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Bahrain has arrested four American journalists covering …
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
BBC to axe television and radio divisions as part of radical management overhaul  —  Lord Hall, the director-general, is to unveil what is being billed as the most far-reaching organisational overhaul in the BBC's history, and will not replace recently departed TV boss, Danny Cohen
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Ben Dowell / RadioTimes:
BBC3 could be merged with Radio 1 to create new ‘Youth’ division
Discussion: Guardian
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
The future of news is not in digital, so it may be time to rethink print  —  Print's dead — but so is digital  —  The Financial Times, in a considered piece the other day, has, if there was any doubt, pronounced the newspaper business deader than a doornail.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
CNN to roll out CNNMoney brand internationally, makes Richard Quest editor-at-large  —  CNNMoney business news to roll-out internationally  —  Successful US-based business brand will see hiring of new editors and producers across several CNN International bureuax
Discussion: @rafat, @ahmed and CNNMoney
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Polk Award winners announced: New York Times, AP, Washington Post, Slate, Wall Street Journal, Marshall Project and ProPublica, Huffington Post, and more  —  Long Island University Announces 67th Annual George Polk Awards In Journalism  —  Coverage of Heroin Addiction, Human Rights …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tidal flubs release of Kanye West's new album, delaying downloads but charging credit cards  —  Thousands Bought Kanye West's New Album, But Never Received Their Download  —  Digital music service TIDAL climbed to the top of the App Store, thanks to scoring the exclusive rights to Kanye West's new album …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Scalia's death  —  Gary Martin, the government and political editor for the San Antonio Express-News, was working the weekend shift this afternoon when he got a tip from a federal source bearing big news.  —  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Got Into the TV Business So It Could Make TV Commercials for Apple Music  —  Wait a minute: After years of anticipation, Apple finally made its entry into the TV business, and the rest of the world ... shrugged?  —  Well, yes.  But also, no.  —  Because it's interesting — but not that interesting.
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Legal publishers Fastcase and Lawriter wrangle in federal court over whether state law can be copyrighted  —  Online legal publishers squabble over the right to copyright the law  —  Do private online publishers own the law, or does it belong to the people?
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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