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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 …
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Legal experts see damages award for Hulk Hogan likely to be reduced, and say verdict will have limited effect on press freedoms even if it survives appeal — Legal Experts See Little Effect on News Media From Hulk Hogan Verdict — Legal scholars were as startled as anyone by the scale …
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Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Unsealed records in Hogan sex-tape case suggest witnesses may have lied
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Beau Yarbrough / L.A. Daily News:
Orange County Register owner will ask bankruptcy judge to OK sale to Digital First Media for $52.3M after Tribune was blocked from bid — Attorney: Freedom Communications to sell to Digital First Media — Freedom Communications, the owner of the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise …
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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Maxwell Williams / GOOD Magazine:
The Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed on working with strong personalities, government, transparency, and accountability — Betsy Reed — The editor putting big business and government under the microscope — In a bustling restaurant overlooking Union Square, Betsy Reed looks up cautiously.
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Viacom and comScore reach multi-year cross-platform measurement deal — 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.
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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 …
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Hot Air, @tbridis and The Huffington Post
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Sources: with only 10% to 15% of Tumblr's advertising inventory used, Yahoo is considering letting Facebook sell ads within the Tumblr mobile app — Yahoo, Facebook in Ad Partnership Talks Over Tumblr — Yahoo is considering letting Facebook sell ads within the Tumblr mobile app …
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TheTechNews, @ericjackson, @bluechoochoo, @profjeffjarvis, @jason_kint, @mdudas, @mathewi, Fortune and Business Insider
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Honduran journalist and director of Radio Globo and Globo TV sentenced to 10 years in prison for defamation — Honduran journalist sentenced to 10 years in prison for defamation — Honduran authorities should drop all criminal charges against journalist David Romero Ellner, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Mike Ananny / Nieman Lab:
The next New York Times public editor should be an expert in the boundaries of journalism, politics of platforms, and 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 …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab, @raju, New York Times, Editor & Publisher and Joho the Blog
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NBC and MSNBC sign, then un-sign former Obama communications adviser Stephanie Cutter over conflicts related to her political advocacy work — NBC News/MSNBC sign, then un-sign Stephanie Cutter over conflicts — This morning, Politico Playbook's Mike Allen reported two somewhat uncomfortable developments right alongside each other:
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