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3:50 AM ET, March 4, 2016

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Simon Thomsen / Business Insider Australia:
Sydney Morning Herald suspends Australian journalist Paul Sheehan indefinitely from his position at Fairfax Media over his fabricated rape story  —  The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended columnist Paul Sheehan over his false rape column  —  The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Facebook, Amazon, Verizon, and Yahoo to bid on digital rights to NFL Thursday night games, league would like deal completed by March 20  —  Facebook Wants to Pay for NFL Streaming Rights but Apple Doesn't  —  Last month, the NFL sold off TV rights to its Thursday night games to CBS and NBC*.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How Vice Media pleases sponsors: blurring logos in a KKK documentary, using reporter's interview to promote a video game, killing banking investigation, more  —  Vice Media goes gonzo on the news.  Advertisers may be a different story.  —  With its swaggering reporting style and frank …
Adam Pasick / Quartz:
Spotify expands music discovery with Fresh Finds, a weekly playlist of music from new artists culled from music blogs and review sites  —  Spotify is using 50,000 anonymous hipsters to find your next favorite song  —  Spotify's personalized Discover Weekly playlist has won millions of fans …
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Sources: Facebook to announce it will open Messenger to publishers for content distribution at its F8 conference in April  —  Facebook Plans To Open Messenger To Publishers At F8 In April  —  Facebook will officially let publishers distribute content through Messenger and will announce …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vimeo revamps its iOS app with new design, improved discovery with categories, picture-in-picture, and Spotlight search support  —  Vimeo's iOS app gets a big makeover aimed at improving discovery  —  Vimeo, the video network and underdog to the global behemoth that is YouTube …
Discussion: 9to5Mac, SocialTimes and The Next Web
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Facebook adds Spotify integration to Messenger so users can share songs and playlists  —  Spotify becomes first music platform to integrate with Facebook Messenger  —  Music has arrived on Messenger.  —  Facebook announced today that its mobile messaging platform now integrates with Spotify.
Pavithra Mohan / Fast Company:
YouTube partners with UN to produce content that promotes gender equality, invests in videos by and about women at YouTube Spaces  —  YouTube Boosts Female Content Creators With Two New Initiatives  —  Both programs will focus on producing videos by women, for women, that discuss gender equality and other women's issues.
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Atlas Obscura, a travel and exploration site, raises $2.5M from NYT, New Atlantic, Henry Blodget, and others, to expand its user-generated Atlas product  —  Travel Site Atlas Obscura Raises $2.5 Million in New Funding  —  The company wants to be like ‘if National Geographic and Vice had a baby’
Discussion: @wsjcmo and Melville House Books
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Perseus Books Agrees to Sell Distribution Business to Ingram  —  Deal comes days after agreement to sell publishing arm to Hachette Book Group  —  Perseus Books Group has agreed to sell the last remaining piece of its business—its physical and digital distribution services group—to Ingram Content Group for an undisclosed price.
Discussion: Associated Press and GalleyCat
Olivier Laurent / TIME:
World Press Photo finds fewer manipulated entries in this year's contest, 16% compared with last year's 20%, but reports ongoing problems within the industry  —  World Press Photo Finds Fewer Manipulated Entries in This Year's Photojournalism Contest  —  Yet issues around heavy post-processing remain
Discussion: PetaPixel, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Barnes & Noble to close Nook App store, Nook Video, and UK Nook Store March 15, 2016  —  B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on 15 March  —  Barnes & Noble announced a slew of of closures on Thursday, including Nook Video, the UK Nook Store, and what had to have been one of B&N's greatest digital mistakes.
 
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Laurie Beth Harris / American Press Institute:
Interview with founders of email newsletter Clover, which aims to inform teen girls about news and has had a daily 70% open rate since launch February 1
Guardian:
30 Sudanese journalists launch hunger strike over forced closure of El Tayar newspaper, while editor-in-chief Osman Marghani faces death penalty