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6:25 AM ET, March 17, 2016

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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
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 …
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
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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  —  FCC Drafting Order to Approve Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal  —  Order, expected as soon as this week, will set conditions focusing on promoting online video competition
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  —  Lord & Taylor Reaches Settlement with FTC Over Native Ad Disclosures  —  FTC said retailer didn't make clear that it paid for magazine article, social influencer posts
Washington Post:
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi's resignation  —  Two weeks after China's President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign …
 
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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
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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
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Les Moonves says CBS will sell, swap, or spin off its radio assets in the coming year
Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Turkey arrests three academics on ‘terrorist propaganda’ charges
 

 
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