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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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TIME, @mattnavarra, @pkafka, @elanazak, @lauraolin, @carlquintanilla, @stephlauren, @jwherrman and Business Insider
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Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
CBS trying to secure NFL streaming rights for online subscription service CBS All Access, says CEO Les Moonves — CBS in Talks to Score NFL Streaming Rights — CBS, unsatisfied with splitting the broadcast rights to Thursday night NFL games, is in talks to nail down the digital streaming licenses …
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 …
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@watchhyper, @digitalshields, @heoj, FishbowlNY, @ajs, @coryhaik, @jacobdhorowitz, @michaelbolden and @digitalshields
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.
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Variety, Re/code, Mashable, @rachelsmithtv, @scottnevins, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo UK and Consumerist
New York Times:
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, AhlulBayt News Agency and Editor & Publisher
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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
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Index on Censorship
Oliver Ellrodt / Reuters:
Turkey's Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile
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@newgreatgame, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Deadline, Washington Post and New York Times
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 …
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.
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Hot Air, @jimmy_wales, GeekWire, The Week, Political Insider blog, @alexburnsnyt, @vali_nasr, www.wnyc.org, @radleybalko, Australia Network News, @saraeisen, bookforum.com, New York Times, Grist, RexBlog.com, The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Advocate, Forbes, Gothamist, Guardian, Hit & Run, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, @mathieuvonrohr, @gopblackchick, Media Wire Daily, Deadline, @maggienyt, @brianstelter, @iancass, @mhelft, @natesilver538, @katzish, Boing Boing, @mlcalderone, @buzzfeedandrew, @becket, @jbarro, Washington Post, @dangillmor, Politico, NPR, New York Magazine, Mashable and Mother Jones
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.
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@carlosolin, @fortunemagazine, @elanazak, @joshsternberg, @wfederman, @joshelman, @jess, @eringriffith, @mattnavarra, @elanazak, @djbentley and @editorialiste
Letitia Stein / Reuters:
On day two of Gawker trial, Hulk Hogan testifies about the personal impact of sex tape release — Hulk Hogan says still reeling from sex tape at Florida trial — Former professional wrestling star Hulk Hogan testified on Tuesday he no longer was “the same person I was before” …
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New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, The Independent, Metro.co.uk, Gawker, LawNewz, Courthouse News Service, Hit & Run, CBS News, CBC News, Hollywood Reporter and LawNewz
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer says Gawker posted sex tape to ‘harm’ him
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New York Magazine, @mashable, Cageside Seats, The Big Lead, WFLA-TV, Mashable, AOL, NBC News, Variety, @cnnmoney, New York Times and People.com
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 …
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@adamostrow
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
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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Nieman Lab, FishbowlNY, American Press Institute, AdExchanger, The Verge, Talking New Media, The Digital Reader, The Next Web, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Ad Age, Adweek and Digiday
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
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
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