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10:15 AM ET, February 18, 2016

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Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
SBNation blames breakdown in editorial process for its briefly available profile of ex-police officer and convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw  —  SB Nation Publishes, Deletes “Complete Failure” Of A Story About Convicted Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw  —  This afternoon, SB Nation's Longform …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Yahoo Tech EIC Dan Tynan is out as the company says it will phase out digital magazines for food, health, parenting, makers, travel, autos, and real estate  —  The ax falls at Yahoo  —  Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals, POLITICO Media has learned.
Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Chief Paul Lee Forced Out, Channing Dungey Named Entertaiment President  —  EMAIL ME  —  The news comes a year or so after Ben Sherwood replaced Anne Sweeney as President of Disney/ABC TV Group.  —  ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee is out, and his drama chief Channing Dungey will assume his role.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12  —  Facebook is opening up Instant Articles to newsrooms everywhere.  Will a flood of distributed content follow?  —  In a long-awaited move, Facebook announced this afternoon …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Netflix updated its recommendation algorithms to highlight titles based on global viewing habits earlier this year, ditching regional approach  —  How Netflix completely revamped recommendations for its new global audience  —  Before Netflix got into the business of producing its own programming …
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango  —  Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster From Warner Bros Entertainment  —  BREAKING: Fandango is set to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes …
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
There are 96 fact-checking projects in 37 countries, new census finds  —  The latest census of fact-checking and promise-tracking initiatives shows 96 such projects currently operating in 37 countries (highlighted in green below).  This is a 50 percent increase compared to the 2015 census.
Discussion: Duke Reporters' Lab and USA Today
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic:
Data analysis of gender bias shows 22% of individuals named or quoted by Atlantic reporter in 2015 were female, of total mentions under 19% were female  —  I Analyzed a Year of My Reporting for Gender Bias (Again) … Every time I write something about diversity in Silicon Valley …
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Ozy partners with Wired, The New York Times, MIT, and TED for co-branded newsletters that include content from partner publications  —  How Ozy leans on The New York Times and Wired to build its newsletter subscriptions  —  When it comes to distribution, collaboration, not competition, is the new normal.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Bruce Dold is named editor of the Chicago Tribune  —  The Chicago Tribune changed editors today as Gerould Kern retired after nearly eight years.  He will be succeeded by Bruce Dold, the longtime editor of the Tribune's editorial and opinion pages.  —  Kern, 66, said in a phone interview, “I've worked nearly 45 years without a break.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
BBC banned from leading news bulletins on opinion polls during EU referendum campaign  —  The BBC Trust has said the corporation must not commission opinion polls during the EU Referendum campaign and treat those commissioned by others with caution.  —  The editorial guidelines published today follow …
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Isabelle Niu / Fusion:
How individual voices on China's WeChat deliver news and eclipse traditional media accounts
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
With a quarter of its readers coming from abroad, Stat launches a daily Zika email update
Discussion: @sarahmarshall and STAT
New York Times:
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Advertisers respond positively to Playboy's no-nudity, with 55.5% increase in ad pages for March issue
Discussion: @paul_caplan
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Bill Simmons' new site The Ringer to start as an email newsletter launching in mid-March, website to launch in late spring or early summer
Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett Q4: revenue down 9.7% YoY to $739.3M, advertising revenue down 13%, circulation declined 7.9%
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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