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11:45 AM ET, February 24, 2016

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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Limited resources and paywalls limit some publishers experiments with AMP while others go all in  —  Diving all in or dipping a toe?  How publishers are approaching Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative  —  “Mobile web performance is bad — I challenge you find someone who disagrees with that …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google's AMP listings appear in mobile search; results recognizable by green-filled circle with lightning bolt AMP icon  —  Live: Google Launches AMP Listings In Mobile Search Results, For Some  —  Google's launch of accelerated mobile pages in its search results appears to have started a day earlier than expected.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Acquires DramaFever from SoftBank  —  Warner Bros. has bought DramaFever, a streaming-video subscription service specializing in Korean TV shows and film dramas, and is eyeing the deal as paving the way to launch new over-the-top services.  —  WB is acquiring DramaFever …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Publishers need to use predictive and conversational bots to add a service on top of their content if they want to survive  —  News Publishers Need To Jump Into Bots (1/2)  —  The survival of the news industry depends, for a large part, on its ability to create services on top of their contents streams.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free  —  Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too  —  People love Pocket.  Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
How journalist Gary Harki's reports of police with disciplinary issues may have prompted a bill in Virginia to make names of police unavailable under FOIA  —  Here's the backstory to a bill allowing Virginia police to keep officers' names secret  —  Photo credit: Rama, Wikimedia; Treatment by CJR
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Fusion revenue jumped from $28.1M in 2014 to $63.5M in 2015, while losses grew from $27.3M in 2013, to $35M in 2014, and $37.6M in 2015  —  Still a joint venture, Fusion more than doubled its revenue in 2015  —  Univision CFO Francisco Lopez-Balboa brushed aside reports that the company wants …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google launches Project Shield, a free DDOS mitigation service, to all non-state news sites  —  Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free  —  Mehdi Yahyanejad thought that after Iranians voted on June 12, 2009, he would finally get some rest.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor  —  Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business  —  Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Univision launches campaign to encourage Hispanics to register to vote, raising questions about partisanship  —  Univision Aims to Make Hispanic Voting Bloc Even More Formidable  —  About 11 million Hispanics voted in the 2012 presidential election, fewer than half of those who were eligible.
William F. Baker / USA Today:
Spotlight movie fails to acknowledge the dogged reporting of the National Catholic Reporter, beginning in 1985  —  How ‘Spotlight’ missed the story: Column  —  ‘National Catholic Reporter’ exposed priest abuse and the Catholic Church coverup in 1985.  —  It is just a single line of dialogue …
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
With CEO Jack Griffin gone, the stage is set to break up Tribune Publishing
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
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TheStreet's CEO Elisabeth DeMarse resigns; former USA Today President and Publisher Larry Kramer to take over role on interim basis
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The Awl co-editor John Herrman, Deadspin reporter Greg Howard, and Slate writer Amanda Hess awarded David Carr fellowships at the New York Times
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments

Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer:
The European Parliament adopts right-to-repair rules clarifying manufacturer obligations to provide repair services, consumer access to spare parts, and more
 
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