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5:55 AM ET, March 19, 2016

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in compensatory damages from Gawker, finds Denton and Daulerio personally liable; Gawker hints at appeal  —  $115 million verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker  —  Hogan's lawyer: Gawker editor was “playing God” with my client's privacy.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nick Denton had expected he would need to appeal Hogan case, has begun preparing case  —  Florida Jury Hands Hulk Hogan a $115 Million Victory in the Gawker Sex Tape Trial  —  Round one in the Hulk Hogan/Gawker sex tape trial goes to the wrestler: A Florida jury found decisively in his favor …
Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Unsealed records in Hogan sex-tape case suggest witnesses may have lied  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Court records unsealed Friday in former wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker contradict his sworn deposition in the case and that of several other key witnesses.
Discussion: @emilyesmith
Popbitch:
Recap of major testimony in Hulk Hogan-Gawker lawsuit as closing arguments are set to begin  —  Gawkward Answers  —  The second week of the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial has seen the defendants - New York gossip blog, Gawker - attempt to justify publishing uncensored footage of Hulk Hogan having sex.
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Staffers at networks wrestle with Trump's unprecedented press restrictions and TV's role in his rise  —  How Donald Trump Bent Television To His Will  —  Staffers across the major networks have reservations about their role in Trump's rise.  —  Staffers at the five major television networks …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump not asked about alleged journalist assault by top aide in more than a dozen TV interviews  —  No One's Asking Donald Trump About Campaign Manager Accused Of Grabbing Reporter  —  The Republican front-runner has done more than a dozen TV interviews without getting a single question about his top aide, Corey Lewandowski.
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Viacom Inks Big Cross-Platform Deal With comScore  —  Making good on its effort to push for more non-Nielsen based advertising deals, Viacom has made an agreement with up-and-coming media measurement firm comScore, in an extensive multi-year cross-platform deal.
Associated Press:
Analysis: requests for public records under Freedom of Information Act to Obama administration last year returned censored files or nothing 77% of the time  —  US gov't sets record for failures to find files when asked  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a record for the number …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
SoundCloud signs licensing deal with Sony Music, the last of three major labels, paving way for launch of paid subscription service later this year  —  SoundCloud has signed a licensing deal with Sony Music, giving it deals with all three major labels and paving the way for the subscription …
Mike Ananny / Nieman Lab:
Next NYT public editor should expert in boundaries of journalism, politics of platforms, ethics of algorithms  —  It's time to reimagine the role of a public editor, starting at The New York Times  —  The public editor is meant to mediate between newsrooms and audiences, but where exactly are newsrooms and audiences today?
 
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Mariah Stewart / The Huffington Post:
Videographer Mary Moore convicted of failure to comply with police order in Ferguson, gets suspended sentence
Discussion: Business Insider
Dune Lawrence / Bloomberg Business:
How a businessman now indicted for securities fraud trolled a Bloomberg journalist for years via email, Twitter, and a legitimate looking blog, TheBlot
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ABC and Warner Bros. TV Group stacking rights deal will let viewers binge on entire current seasons instead of only last five episodes
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Comic-Con to release free, beta of subscription video service May 7, will go paid in June
Discussion: iDigitalTimes.com
Mona Lalwani / Engadget:
Interview with Giphy team on resurgence of GIFs, importance of the loop, and Giphy Studios, its new original content studio in LA
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Sony Pictures Television shifting to an international-first model, with sales to UK's Channel 4 and ITV and Canada's Shaw before selling shows US channels
Amy X. Wang / Quartz:
Click fraud moves into music streaming, draining money from companies and artists, and it's almost impossible to detect
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
A friendly new Slack bot from Digg lets you ask for articles around keywords, domain names, and more
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

Bloomberg:
Qualcomm prevails in a trial against Arm's claim that it breached a license for chip technology that Qualcomm acquired in the $1.4B purchase of Nuvia in 2021

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The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017
 
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