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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, @pkafka, @elanazak, @lauraolin, @mattnavarra, @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 …
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
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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@digitalshields, @heoj, @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.
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@carlosolin, @fortunemagazine, @elanazak, @joshsternberg, @wfederman, @joshelman, @jess, @eringriffith, @mattnavarra, @elanazak, @djbentley and @editorialiste
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, Editor & Publisher, 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
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
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 …
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, CBS News, Hit & Run, 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
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, AOL, NBC News, Variety, Mashable, @cnnmoney, New York Times and People.com
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, www.wnyc.org, @vali_nasr, @radleybalko, Australia Network News, @saraeisen, bookforum.com, Grist, RexBlog.com, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Advocate, Forbes, Gothamist, Guardian, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap, Mediaite, 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
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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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