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5:40 PM ET, March 11, 2016

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart reporter files police report against Trump campaign manager  —  Florida law enforcement is investigating an alleged physical altercation between Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, who filed a police report against Trump's top aide on Friday.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart spokesman Kurt Bardella parts ways with site amid controversy involving Trump campaign manager  —  Breitbart spokesperson parts ways with website  —  Kurt Bardella, who had been serving as Breitbart's spokesperson, has parted ways with the company, he said in an interview.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Video Appears to Show Trump Campaign Manager Reaching for Breitbart Reporter's Arm  —  A new video has emerged that appears to show Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reaching out and trying to grab Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields' arm seconds before she claims he pulled her to the ground.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Exclusive: Audio transcript of Breitbart reporter allegedly being roughed up by Trump campaign manager  —  Donald Trump's spokesperson flatly denied on Thursday that campaign manager Corey Lewandowski roughed up a reporter for the conservative website Breitbart, and suggested she was fabricating …
Wall Street Journal:
Publishers Petition White House to End Cuba Book Embargo  —  As U.S. moves to normalize ties with Cuba, book industry seeks an end to the embargo on books and educational materials  —  Three major U.S. book publishers, several trade groups and others in the publishing industry have signed …
Zheping Huang / Quartz:
A reporter blocked from leaving China to accept a prize says his craft is despicable—and noble  —  Veteran Chinese journalist and historian Yang Jisheng exposed the massive death toll of China's Great famine, and how Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong's wrong policies created it, in his 2008 book Tombstone.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on stricter Title II regulations, Go90 and BingeOn, cable boxes, privacy, and being called a dingo by John Oliver  —  The Dragonslayer  —  Two years ago, John Oliver called Tom Wheeler a dingo.  —  The host of Last Week Tonight had set his sights …
Discussion: AdExchanger
Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New Yorker highlights its inner workings in its video efforts, along with its high standards, deep reporting, and intelligent analysis  —  Using video, The New Yorker abandons its mystique in hopes of attracting a larger audience  —  Executive producers Alex Gibney, left …
Daniel A. Gross / New Yorker:
For his blog Neglected Books, Brad Bigelow scours old books and magazines for obscure, out-of-print books worthy of new attention  —  The Custodian of Forgotten Books  —  A little over a decade ago, a forgotten book was suddenly remembered.  Its second life began when a fiction writer referenced it in a book of her own.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Former Ofcom employee offered potentially sensitive information on TV companies to a major UK broadcaster  —  Ofcom tackles mass data breach of TV company information  —  Ex-employee offered a hoard of potentially sensitive information about rival TV companies to his new employer, who is a major broadcaster
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MovieSwap and VidAngel claim their business model of offering online access to content ripped from DVDs is legal  —  Movie-Streaming Sites Claim Legal Cover With DVD-Ownership Models  —  Startups MovieSwap, VidAngel offering members online access to video content ripped from discs
Discussion: /Film, BGR, Digital Trends and TorrentFreak
Maira Sutton / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
TPP slants Internet regulations toward business interests, does little to counter issues like government censorship and free expression  —  White House's Claims that the TPP Would Curb Internet Censorship are Fantasy  —  One of the United States government's priorities in Internet policy …
Discussion: WAN-IFRA
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK viewers doubled amount of time spent streaming TV in 2015
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