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8:20 AM ET, March 17, 2016

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Karen Cheung / Hong Kong Free Press:
Chinese journalist Jia Jia reported to be missing en route to Hong Kong  —  Mainland Chinese journalist Jia Jia was taken away by the authorities at Beijing airport on Tuesday as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong.  His disappearance is believed to be connected to an open letter published …
Discussion: @comradewong and @wang_pablo
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing wins $56 million auction to acquire OC Register  —  One of the largest newspapers in California may soon have a new owner.  —  Tribune Publishing, the newspaper chain whose holdings include the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, has agreed to purchase …
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Geoffrey Mohan / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune Publishing's bid for O.C. Register faces antitrust hurdles, DOJ says
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Fairfax Media to cut 120 full-time jobs at Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, and The Age  —  Fairfax Media journalists on strike until Monday after 120 jobs axed  —  Staff at Sydney Morning Herald, Age and Australian Financial Review respond after editorial director announces major redundancy program
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Producers of Spotlight movie, Open Road Films, acknowledge fictionalized dialog after Boston College worker Jack Dunn asks for scene to be removed  —  ‘Spotlight’ Distributor Absolves Boston Man of Complicity in the Church Cover-Up  —  Open Road, which distributed the Oscar-winning movie …
Reuters:
German court rules Apple violated OpenTV streaming video patents, orders company to stop selling infringing products in Germany  —  German court rules against Apple in video streaming patent case  —  A German court has ruled against Apple Inc in a case over video streaming patents …
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Forbes investigating after freelance contributor replied to a pitch from PR agency asking for £300 for company profile, saying Forbes pays “very small sum”  —  Forbes investigates after ‘contributor’ asks PR for £300 to write online profile
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The Coral Project to release Trust open source comment management app in beta later this year, will be tested at The New York Times and Washington Post  —  The Coral Project unveils its first product to make comments better  —  On Monday at SXSW, The Coral Project provided more details …
Anita Busch / Deadline:
Relativity Says It Has Closed $400M Financing Deal With Maple Leaf Films  —  Relativity Media said today that it has secured $400M in film financing from Michael Wexler and Tove Christensen's Maple Leaf Films and that the two companies have executed a binding agreement for Maple Leaf Films …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fandango to Rebrand M-Go Video Service ‘FandangoNow’  —  Rollout timed for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ April 1 home-video release  —  NBCUniversal's Fandango is aiming to phase out the M-Go brand by the end of the month, announcing plans to relaunch the service as “FandangoNow.”
Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
How a writer went from earning $150 per piece for the Atlantic to $2K for one story for its paid content wing, and discovered there is money in journalism  —  The Rest Is Advertising  —  Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call.
 
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Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
The number of publications shut out by Trump keeps growing, has now included National Review, the Des Moines Register, Univision, Mother Jones, more
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Viacom Elects Frederic Salerno to Be Independent Director
Associated Press:
Indian journalists see more threats, attacks with Modi as PM
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
CNN investing $20M, hiring 200+ and cutting 50+ in shift to better compete with new media firms like BuzzFeed, adds team for custom Snapchat, Facebook content
Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:
Retailer Lord & Taylor settles with FTC for not making clear disclosures that it paid for Nylon magazine article and social influencer Instagram posts
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Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice to expand to Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Croatia by year end
Discussion: Variety and Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler poised to circulate draft order approving Charter-TWC deal as soon as this week, with clauses ensuring growth of online video
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by ‘ransomware’ malvertising
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Musk v. Altman: email shows Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman in 2017, Musk claims Altman proposed OpenAI sell its own cryptocurrency, and more

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing the Trump administration for regulating AI; policy analysts suspect Trump will dismantle or reshape the US AI Safety Institute
 
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