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12:45 PM ET, February 17, 2016

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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  —  Bill Simmons unveils new site's name: The Ringer  —  Bill Simmons' new Grantland will be called The Ringer, and it will be populated by many ex-Grantland staffers.
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Vox Hires Choire Sicha to Oversee Partnerships With Facebook, Snapchat  —  Awl Network co-founder will be director of partner platforms  —  Vox Media has long counted its own content platform as a key to its success.  But now it says the future lies in platforms run by others …
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: Trinity Mirror to launch new weekday tabloid New Day on February 29, priced at 25p  —  Trinity Mirror To Unveil ‘New Day’ Tabloid  —  Trinity Mirror to unveil ‘New Day’ tabloid on 29 February  —  The publisher of The Daily Mirror will this month unveil a weekday newspaper called …
Tim Baysinger / Adweek:
Old New Yorker Stories Are Being Turned Into Compelling Short Films for Amazon Prime  —  How did David Remnick feel when he saw Burkhard Bilger's 2014 story, “The Ride of Their Lives”, about young Texas bull riders, turned into a film?  —  “In a way, it was more emotional,” said Remnick …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Cablevision customers can now live stream CBS when away from home  —  Cablevision and CBS have just announced a deal that, effective immediately, lets the cable company's subscribers watch a live stream of CBS both in and out of the home.  Under traditional TV Everywhere deals …
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Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett Q4: revenue down 9.7% YoY to $739.3M, advertising revenue down 13%, circulation declined 7.9%  —  Gannett's Revenue Falls on Continued Ad, Circulation Declines  —  Media company posts a profit of $20.4 million  —  Gannett Co. said its fourth-quarter revenue fell 9.7% on continued declines …
BBC:
Indonesia bans Tumblr over porn  —  Indonesia has banned the blogging platform Tumblr, saying that the site distributes pornographic content.  —  Azhar Hasyim, e-business director at Indonesia's Information Ministry, told the BBC the decision had been made without consultation with the New York-based company, which is owned by Yahoo.
Discussion: TIME, e27, The Next Web and Business Insider
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The Associated Press is partnering with AMD for more virtual reality journalism  —  After moving into virtual reality video journalism last year, the Associated Press is partnering with chip maker AMD for a new push into VR.  Today, the companies announced that they're launching a web portal …
Sean Captain / Fast Company:
Cable and tech companies line up political allies and fund consumer coalitions ahead of FCC vote Thursday on TV set-top box rules  —  The Future Of How You Watch TV Could Change This Week  —  Behind an FCC proposal to lower cable equipment fees is a fight for control of television involving Google, pay-TV services, and Hollywood.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Advertisers respond positively to Playboy's no-nudity, with 55.5% increase in ad pages for March issue  —  The No-Nudity Playboy Is Doing Well With Advertisers, So Far  —  Magazine's March Issue Sports 55.5% More Ad Pages  —  Ad Age Digital Conference 2016
Discussion: Fortune and Consumerist
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
US federal appeals court upholds Apple $450M settlement from ebook price-fixing case  —  U.S. appeals court upholds Apple e-book settlement  —  A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple Inc's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise e-book prices.
Discussion: AppleInsider
Press Gazette:
Barclay family says Telegraph is not for sale amid staff uncertainty over ‘strategic review’  —  The owners of the Telegraph have emphasised the company is not for sale amid staff uncertainty over future plans for the group.  —  Telegraph Media Group staff were sent a letter …
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Owen Williams / The Next Web:
The original Popcorn Time is back from the dead — but nobody knows who's running it
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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs amid claims of political pressure
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Om Malik:
Increasing frequency and decreasing quality of Instagram ads ruin user experience, falling far short of co-founder Kevin Systrom's promises
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Bryan Clark / The Next Web:
Kanye West's new album downloaded 500K times on pirate sites, calls into question value of Tidal-only release
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security

Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023
 
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