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12:55 PM ET, March 4, 2016

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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
New Emmy Rules Open Categories to YouTube and Other Streaming Shorts  —  The TV Academy is also increasing nominee count in writing and directing races and doing away with ranked voting.  The TV Academy is rolling out additional changes for the 2016 Emmys, and it's good news for streamers who deal in short form content.
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 …
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Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Streaming TV startups Cheddar and Viceland stem from lazy theorizing about what millennials want
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 …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
La Presse+ app generates more than 75% of La Presse's advertising revenue, is accessed by 250K unique devices per weekday, average 40 minutes in the app  —  For La Presse, the tablet is the future as it leaves print behind  —  Publisher Guy Crevier says newspapers should change their model before they find themselves in a crisis
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Barnes & Noble to close Nook App store, Nook Video, and UK Nook Store March 15  —  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.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Investor's Business Daily to become a weekly, 20 news jobs to be cut  —  Investor's Business Daily, which has published five days a week since its founding in 1984, will announce next week that it will become a weekly newspaper and will focus its editorial efforts more online.
Thanks:@talkingbiznews
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Outbrain Acquires Revee, Time Inc To Utilize Its Real-Time Tech  —  Outbrain, a content discovery platform, today announced that through its acquisition of technology company Revee, it has launched Automatic Yield, a content recommendation solution that enables publishers to monetize audiences with a real-time understanding of content.
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 …
Agence France-Presse:
Istanbul court orders anti-Erdogan daily Zaman into administration amid alarm over freedom of expression  —  Istanbul court orders anti-Erdogan daily into administration  —  Istanbul (AFP) - An Istanbul court on Friday ordered into administration a Turkish daily newspaper that is sharply critical …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC white paper may be delayed until after EU referendum  —  Charter renewal proposals unlikely to be published before June 23 due to political considerations and huge public response to green paper  —  The government is likely to delay publishing the white paper on the renewal …
Discussion: BBC and @meaglemp
John Reynolds / Press Gazette:
Time Out editor says title makes a profit and predicts that more magazines will go free  —  More paid-for titles will follow Time Out's “freemium” model, according to the editor of the London issue of the listings title, who has also revealed that the magazine makes a profit.
 
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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
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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
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Perseus Books Agrees to Sell Distribution Business to Ingram
Discussion: Associated Press and GalleyCat
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Facebook adds Spotify integration to Messenger so users can share songs and playlists
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
Discussion: Melville House Books and @wsjcmo
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP
 
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