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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, @elanazak, @stephlauren, TIME, @pkafka, @lauraolin, @carlquintanilla, @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 …
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, @rachelsmithtv, @scottnevins, The Next Web, The Verge, Mashable, 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
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 …
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, @elanazak, @joshsternberg, @joshelman, @mattnavarra, @elanazak, @djbentley, @fortunemagazine, @eringriffith, @jess, @wfederman and @editorialiste
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
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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
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
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, New York Times, The Independent, Tampa Bay Times, CBS News, Metro.co.uk, Gawker, CBC News, Hit & Run, Courthouse News Service, 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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@mashable, New York Magazine, HLNtv.com, Cageside Seats, The Big Lead, WFLA-TV, AOL, NBC News, Variety, @cnnmoney and New York Times
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.
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
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
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
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
TechCrunch adds a writer, Jay Donovan, who will retain his job in tech advertising at an IBM-owned company — TechCrunch's Newest Writer Will Also Keep His Job in Tech Advertising — Since its founding, TechCrunch has maintained (and enjoyed) a close relationship with the industry it covers.
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TechCrunch, @willoremus and @samfbiddle
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