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10:45 AM ET, March 8, 2016

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Michael R. Bloomberg / BloombergView.com:
Michael Bloomberg says he won't enter presidential race because he can't win and running could lead to a victory by Donald Trump or Ted Cruz  —  The Risk I Will Not Take  —  Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise.
Sheila Burke / Associated Press:
Fox reporter Erin Andrews awarded $55M in suit against hotel owners and stalker after being secretly recorded nude at hotel  —  Jurors award Erin Andrews $55M in suit over nude video  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker …
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Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Amid Andrews trial, female sports reporters open up about safety
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
We need more debate about publishing's future as ad blocking cuts revenues and distribution moves to social platforms owned by a few companies  —  Facebook is eating the world  —  Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry …
Natasha Onwuemezi / The Bookseller:
Journalists from BuzzFeed, GQ, and the Mirror join Index on Censorship campaign condemning seizure of Turkish newspaper Zaman  —  Pullman condemns seizure of Turkish newspaper  —  Authors including Philip Pullman and Tom Holland, and journalists from Buzzfeed, GQ and the Mirror have joined Index …
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Millennial news site Mic acquires Hyper, mobile app that aggregates video content into magazine format  —  Mic Acquires Mobile Video App Hyper  —  Millennial-focused Web publisher looks to curate top video content each day  —  Many digital media companies are focused on distributing content …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Amazon launches its first live show, Style Code Live, a QVC-like web show  —  Amazon's first live show is QVC for the YouTube generation  —  Now that Amazon has its own private fashion labels, it's launching its its first ever live TV show called Style Code Live.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Behind Dick Costolo's and Jack Dorsey's efforts to fix Twitter  —  Fixing Twitter  —  How the media-juggernaut-turned-train- wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years.  —  In late January the Tweeps needed a kumbaya moment, and Jack Dorsey knew exactly how to give it to them.
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer says Gawker posted sex tape to ‘harm’ him  —  That was the message from Hogan's attorney Shane Vogt to jurors on Monday, as Hogan's $100 million civil trial against Gawker Media kicked off in St. Petersburg, Florida.  —  Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, will testify later in the day.
John Reynolds / Press Gazette:
UK newspaper The Sun appoints Gordon Smart as deputy editor  —  Gordon Smart, editor of The Scottish Sun, is returning to England to become The Sun's deputy editor.  —  Smart, who joined The Sun in 2004 writing for its showbusiness pages, will effectively become number three on the UK's best-selling national daily title.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
The New York Times Begins Testing Ad Blocking Approaches  —  Some Visitors With Ad Blockers Are Asked to Either Whitelist the Times or Subscribe  —  Viewability and Verification in the Age of Programmatic  —  The New York Times on Monday began testing out “various approaches” to combatting the rise of ad-blocking technology.
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Sources: Snapchat is targeting $300M to $350M in revenue in 2016, compared to $50M in revenue Snapchat projected for 2015  —  Snapchat Thinks It Will Generate at Least $300 Million in Revenue This Year  —  Investors are buying into Snapchat's massive $16 billion valuation because its business is growing significantly.
 
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
New York Magazine building out branded content studio, poaches Justin Montanino, Fusion's director of development for branded content, to run it
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Michael Finnegan Named President of Atlantic Media
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From Techmeme:

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 12%+ after hours

Microsoft:
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; MSFT jumps 4%+ after hours

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
The US awards Micron up to $6.1B under the CHIPS Act, to back an up to $125B investment to build a megafab in New York and a fab in Idaho over the next 20 years
 
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