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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
After an article on the legislative record of Bernie Sanders was widely shared, The New York Times made significant edits to make it less flattering — How the ‘New York Times’ Sandbagged Bernie Sanders — Online, we see both faces of the Gray Lady — The New York Times ran a piece …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign blocks Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger from Tuesday night press conference — POLITICO reporter denied access to Trump event — POLITICO reporter Ben Schreckinger was denied entry to Donald Trump's press conference on Tuesday night, despite having previously been granted credentials by the campaign.
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Alex Hern / Guardian:
Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by ‘ransomware’ malvertising — Adverts hijacked by malicious campaign that demands payment in bitcoin to unlock user computers — A number of major news websites have seen adverts hijacked by a malicious campaign that attempts to install …
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Malwarebytes Labs, The Register, Softpedia News, Talking New Media, Computerworld, @segphault, @jenstar, Ars Technica and Neowin
Geoffrey Mohan / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune Publishing's bid for O.C. Register faces antitrust hurdles, DOJ says — Newspaper boxes outside the Orange County Register in Santa Ana. A $45.5-million bid from Digital First Media for the assets of parent Freedom Communications will be the “stalking horse” bid in an auction Wednesday.
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Orange County Register, Orange County Register and LA Observed
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Les Moonves says CBS will sell, swap, or spinoff its radio assets in the coming year — CBS Plans to Sell Radio Station Group — CBS plans to sell or spinoff its radio assets in the coming year, acknowledging that the business has become slow-growth and a drain on resources …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Instagram to begin testing an algorithm-based personalized feed for users, moving away from reverse chronological order — Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm — For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order.
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New York Times:
Analysis shows Trump has earned close to $2B in free media, yet spent less than any other major candidate on advertising — Measuring Donald Trump's Mammoth Advantage in Free Media — Of all the ways Donald Trump has shocked the political system, one of the most significant is how he wins primary …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart sends ‘cease and desist’ letters to former staffers — Breitbart is getting litigious. — The company sent out cease and desist letters to some of the employees who left the company in the past week, multiple sources with knowledge of the letters told POLITICO.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Hires Longtime Pandora Exec Tom Conrad as VP of Product — Snapchat has hired longtime Pandora executive Tom Conrad as its new VP of Product. — Conrad spent a decade at Pandora and was running product and also serving as the company's CTO by the time he left back in 2014.
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Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Turkey arrests three academics on ‘terrorist propaganda’ charges — Turkish authorities arrested three academics on charges of “terrorist propaganda” on Tuesday after they publicly read out a declaration reiterating a call to end security operations in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Denver Post:
Denver Post editor Greg Moore resigns; news director Lee Ann Colacioppo will lead newsroom during search for replacement — Search begins for new leader as news director Lee Ann Colacioppo takes reins of Colorado's largest newspaper — Denver Post editor Gregory L. Moore resigned from the paper, March 15, 2016.
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New York Magazine, @nickgroke, @downesscott, @jimbrady, The Big Media Blog, TheDenverChannel.com, @zahiratorres and @gwenifill
Katie Zhu / Medium's The Story:
Medium updates iOS and Android apps to add topic- and theme-based collections, curated by trusted human testers — Collections: Curating a More Browsable Medium — There's so many great stories published every day on Medium—it's hard to keep up. We're building a platform for authors …
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The Verge, @caseynewton, @brianellin, Talkback, The Next Web and Fast Company