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6:45 PM ET, March 3, 2016

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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 …
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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Facebook rolls out ability to share Spotify songs and playlists from within a chat thread on iOS and Android  —  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.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: Facebook, Amazon, and Verizon are likely bidders for digital rights to NFL Thursday night games  —  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 …
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: SocialTimes, 9to5Mac and The Next Web
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.
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: GalleyCat and Associated Press
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
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’  —  Atlas Obscura may be a small publisher for now, but the travel and exploration website knows what it wants to be.
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Newsy, bought by E.W. Scripps in 2013 for $35M and aimed at young audiences, is added to Sling TV along with Univision-Bedrocket channel Flama  —  Newsy, Flama Join Sling TV Lineup  —  Adding more millennials-focused fare to the mix, Sling TV has added Newsy and Flama to its core, $20 per month “Best of Live TV” package.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Sources: ComScore charges publishers between $10-$20K to track traffic on platforms like Facebook and Flipboard in addition to costs for main site measurement  —  Publishers Have to Pay Up to Track Their Audiences on Distributed Platforms  —  And ComScore Measurement of Apple News Is Still Pending
Discussion: @jeremymbarr and AdExchanger
Amy Qin / New York Times:
China extends censorship to online TV industry as new prohibitions on depictions of gay relationships, smoking, reincarnation, and more  —  China Cracks Down on Online Television  —  BEIJING — The authorities in China are tightening their grip on the country's booming online television industry …
 
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Dale Maharidge / The Nation:
As newsrooms slim down, veteran reporters are forced from the profession, leaving younger journalists without mentors and confidence in the future
Chia Lun Huang / WAN-IFRA:
Hong Kong's The Initium has attracted 4M monthly uniques in its first six months with coverage about investigative journalism in China, Taiwan's election, more
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
How Turner's new social aggregation site Surf.co connects to third-party sites like Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, and Giphy
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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
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MSNBC President Phil Griffin says network wasn't trying to end Melissa Harris-Perry's show
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

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Elon Musk, as Trump's efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them
 
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