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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose confirms talks with NFL about securing rights to live-stream games; sources say other bidders include Amazon and Verizon — Facebook Exec Clears the Air Over NFL, Celeb Deal Talks for Live-Stream Push (EXCLUSIVE) — Facebook is breaking its silence …
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Awful Announcing, @mattnavarra, TIME, @elanazak, @stephlauren, @pkafka, @lauraolin, @carlquintanilla, @jwherrman and Business Insider
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Refugees Deeply, the latest single-topic site from News Deeply, launches March 15, with more emphasis on original content — New website to focus on refugee crisis — Last September, heartbreaking images of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach galvanized …
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.
Discussion:
Variety, Re/code, The Next Web, @rachelsmithtv, @scottnevins, Mashable, The Verge, Gizmodo UK and Consumerist
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Millennial news site Mic acquires Hyper, a 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 …
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@heoj, @digitalshields, @watchhyper, FishbowlNY, @ajs, @coryhaik, @jacobdhorowitz, @michaelbolden and @digitalshields
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.
Discussion:
@carlosolin, @joshsternberg, @joshelman, @elanazak, @mattnavarra, @djbentley, @elanazak, @fortunemagazine, @eringriffith, @jess, @wfederman and @editorialiste
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fired SB Nation editor Glenn Stout seeks correction from Deadspin for writing that flawed Holtzclaw story was due in part to Stout's style and sensibility — Ex-SB Nation editor seeks correction/retraction from Deadspin over Daniel Holtzclaw story — On Feb. 26, Deadspin's Greg Howard published …
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@kelseymsutton and @benmullin
Associated Press:
Turkish court appoints trustees to manage Cihan, another opposition-linked news agency — Turkey Appoints Trustees to Opposition-Linked News Agency — ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish court has ordered a news agency linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's top foe placed under the management of trustees …
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Reuters, Guardian, Hurriyet Daily News, Cyprus Mail and AhlulBayt News Agency
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Natasha Onwuemezi / The Bookseller:
Journalists from BuzzFeed, GQ, and the Mirror join Index on Censorship campaign condemning seizure of Turkish newspaper Zaman
Discussion:
Index on Censorship
Oliver Ellrodt / Reuters:
Turkey's Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile
Turkey's Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile
Discussion:
Guardian, @newgreatgame, The Huffington Post, Deadline, Washington Post and New York Times
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Meredith Corp. interested in buying Tribune Media's broadcast stations; Scripps Networks says it would buy Food Network stake “at the right price” — Tribune Said Likely to Sell Assets Rather Than Whole Company — Meredith said to be interested in former Local TV stations
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Mashable partners with France 24 to launch French-language version, Mashable avec France 24, receives support from Google's innovation fund — Mashable launches French-language site with France 24 — New site will be backed by the two companies, as well as receiving support …
Discussion:
@adamostrow
Amanda Kludt / Eater:
Matt Buchanan, co-editor of The Awl, will become Eater's features editor at the end of March, overseeing longform food writing — Matt Buchanan Is Eater's New Features Editor — Some exciting news: At the end of March, Matt Buchanan, co-editor of the Awl and former staffer of The New Yorker …
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@fmanjoo, @hamburger, @mattbuchanan and @felixsalmon
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
UK's New Day Editor Alison Phillips talks about embracing print, balanced opinion, and “positivity” — Alison Phillips: ‘The New Day is about looking behind the news’ — New paper's editor on working women, why she launched a newspaper rather than change the Mirror, and being normal
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Subscription video startup Vessel, headed up by ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announces it is going ad-free for subscribers — Following YouTube Red, video subscription service Vessel goes ad-free for paying subscribers — Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar …
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Variety, Jewish Business News and Multichannel News
Patrick Dunn / Model D:
A profile of three independent journalists in Detroit, including Curt Guyette, the reporter who uncovered the Flint water crisis — These Detroit-area journalists are breaking big stories...without the backing of major news outlets — It has been a tough decade for journalists.
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@patrickdunnhere and FishbowlNY
