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7:40 AM ET, March 16, 2016

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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.
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.
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.
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Politico:
Sources: Trump campaign manager that allegedly assaulted Breitbart staffer was subject of previous complaints about inappropriate behaviour towards journalists
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: @sacca, Forbes, @edmundlee and Variety
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 …
Astha Rajvanshi / Columbia Journalism Review:
How use of open-source intel in reporting on human rights crises can risk sources' lives  —  In human rights reporting, the perils of too much information  —  Editor's Note: This post was produced as part of a graduate course on media writing and storytelling taught by the editors of Columbia Journalism Review.
 
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Apple News now lets publishers of all sizes edit and deliver their stories in the Apple News format, improves statistics dashboard, and launches ad campaign
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Trinity Mirror plans to monetize its mobile audience through in-app ad formats, faster running sites, and location-based ads
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Taylor Swift Videos More Popular Than Most Network TV, Nielsen Numbers Show
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
At Gawker-Hulk Hogan trial, Nick Denton takes the stand, says public's right to know trumps a celebrity's right to privacy
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
BBC tightens conflict of interest rules for senior executives after Alan Yentob row
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times changes policy on stories based on anonymous sources, which must now be approved by one of three top editors
Hilary Milnes / Digiday:
British Vogue tests breaking fashion news alerts on WhatsApp
Discussion: The Drum and @ninatypewriter
Kyle Chayka / Racked:
A profile of Kinfolk, one of the last print lifestyle magazines, and an interview with Nathan Williams, its editor-in-chief
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
At SXSW, New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson predicts VR could generate “significant revenue” for the paper with the right partners
Discussion: FishbowlNY
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security

Reuters:
Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China; ChatGPT is unavailable in China

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be
 
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