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6:00 PM ET, March 8, 2016

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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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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.
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 …
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.
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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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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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer says Gawker posted sex tape to ‘harm’ him
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @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.
Discussion: TechCrunch, @willoremus and @samfbiddle
 
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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”
Andy McDonald / Digital TV Europe:
Job ad posting shows that Amazon is looking to add virtual reality to Amazon Video
Discussion: Gizmodo UK and The Drum
John Reynolds / Press Gazette:
UK newspaper The Sun appoints Gordon Smart as deputy editor
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