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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Ex-Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a video streaming startup for millennials covering CNBC-like topics, with $3M in funding — Former BuzzFeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a CNBC for millennials, with $3 million in funding — Jon Steinberg …
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The New York Observer, @petersterne, @petersterne, @adamsinger, @_bmturner_ and @ajs
Greg Howard / Deadspin:
Memo: SB Nation cuts ties with writer of now-deleted Holtzclaw article, suspends longform program, plans internal review led by Vox Media's Lockhart Steele — SB Nation Memo Announces Hiatus For Longform Program — Two days ago, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a long …
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The New York Observer, @saramorrison, Awful Announcing, @jessesingal, @petersterne and iMediaEthics
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Jessica Luther / FanSided:
Why SB Nation's profile of serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw went down in flames … On Wednesday, SB Nation published a longform piece on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Eastern Michigan University linebacker who was recently sentenced to 263 years for the rape and assault of multiple black women …
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Gerry Shih / Associated Press:
New Chinese rule bans foreign companies from publishing online without state approval and licensing, requires mainland servers, starting March 10 — China requires approval for foreign firms to publish online … BEIJING (AP) — A new Chinese regulation announced this week …
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Quartz, Fortune, South China Morning Post, Gizmodo, Journalism and the World, American Press Institute and Tech in Asia
Maureen Morrison / Ad Age:
Israeli ad blocking company Shine partners with 30M subscriber-strong European carrier Three Group to offer network-level ad blocking — European Carrier Blocks Ads at Network Level — Shine and Three Group Team Up to Offer Ad Blocking — Free Webcast — The Skinny on Scope Management: 2016 Keys to Success
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Turkey detains Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah, co-founder of ANA Press — Turkey detains journalist who risks his life to report from Syria — Reporter raised in London is held after applying for residency in a border city — A Syrian journalist who was raised in Britain …
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Committee to Protect …, @kreasechan, Facebook, International Business Times, telesurtv.net, BuzzFeed and BBC
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after launching a year ago, Sling TV now has more than 600K subscribers; Chief Executive Roger Lynch says “vast majority” are not pay-TV subscribers — Dish Network's Sling TV Has More Than 600,000 Subscribers — Hasn't been breaking out the subscribers publicly for Sling TV since launch a year ago
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TechSpot, @bluechoochoo, The Next Web, The Verge and Digital Trends
Axegrinder / Press Gazette:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hull suggests unpaid articles are more authentic than paid-for stories, which is “something to be proud of” — Stephen Hull and the blockheads: Backlash against HuffPo ed's claim unpaid articles are ‘more authentic’
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New Statesman, @mathewi, @tigerbeat, @natashadevonmbe, @jilliancyork, @laurenduca, @jimspencesport, @markloundy, terribleminds, @mathewi and Guido Fawkes
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Pressure on Katie Couric to deliver for Yahoo amid cutbacks — Yahoo!'s round of cutbacks this week is putting renewed pressure on Katie Couric, the global news anchor who is pulling in $10 million a year. — There was grumbling in the ranks recently, several sources said, as Yahoo! …
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FishbowlNY, Adweek, @mathewi, @eosredux2 and Deadline
Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, copyright takedown notices were up 89% to 35K, requests for account information increased 27% — Providing more #transparency into legal requests to remove content — Since our first transparency report was published in 2012 …
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Twitter Transparency Report, Techdirt, @wexler and @digiphile
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon Revamps ‘Skinny’ FiOS TV Bundles After Spats With ESPN, Others — Verizon Communications is overhauling the lower-priced FiOS Custom TV bundles, and will now offer two basic packages — one with sports channels, and one without them. — The new “skinny” TV packages, launching Sunday …
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Multichannel News, Ad Age, PR Newswire and Reuters
Garrett Reim / Los Angeles Business Journal stories:
Issues-based political media startup, Attn: Inc., founded by Jarrett Moreno and Matthew Segal, raises $18.6M, led by Evolution Media Partners — Political Media Startup Attn: Inc. Raises More Than $18 Million — Attn: Inc. of West Hollywood, a politically liberal news and advocacy site, has raised $18.6 million.
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