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2:40 PM ET, March 4, 2016

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Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Streaming TV startups Cheddar and Viceland stem from lazy theorizing about what millennials want  —  Your Media Future: Cheesy and Skeezy  —  For decades, American parents and authority figures have fretted over how the goddamn kids in their lives might be induced to pull themselves …
Discussion: Editor & Publisher
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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 …
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.
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
Discussion: @niemanlab and @mathewi
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 …
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.
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Toronto Star to invest C$10M into Star Touch tablet edition in 2016, expects it to break even in 2017, posts Q4 loss of C$233M with revenue down 8% to C$213.7M  —  Toronto Star publisher ups bets on tablet app, online forums  —  Torstar Corp (TSb.TO) will pour more money into the tablet version …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Google will extend right-to-be-forgotten to all Search domains for searches from EU country where request was filed beginning next week  —  Google confirms it will extend E.U. right-to-be-forgotten to all Google Search domains from next week  —  Google has confirmed previous reports …
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.
Discussion: @harrymccracken and @raju, 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.
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 …
 
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John Reynolds / Press Gazette:
Time Out editor says title makes a profit and predicts that more magazines will go free
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
BBC white paper may be delayed until after EU referendum
Discussion: @meaglemp and BBC
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
Discussion: PetaPixel, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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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
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Perseus Books Agrees to Sell Distribution Business to Ingram
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Facebook adds Spotify integration to Messenger so users can share songs and playlists
 

 
From Techmeme:

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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