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6:50 PM ET, March 20, 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
Discussion: @emilyesmith
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 …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New site The Thrust aims to publish interactive and data-driven stories that don't fit elsewhere  —  Have an interactive, data-driven story that doesn't fit at your news outlet?  The Thrust wants to know  —  In 15 states across the U.S. and 9 countries around the world …
South China Morning Post:
Lawyer: missing Chinese journalist Jia Jia was taken away by police at Beijing airport while on his way to Hong Kong  —  Chinese journalist who disappeared on way to Hong Kong ‘taken away by police at Beijing airport’: lawyer  —  Rights groups have linked Jia Jia's disappearance …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Chatfuel lets publishers — and anyone — build bots for messaging apps  —  Chat bots are one of the hottest tech topics of the year.  Inspired by trends from Asia, messaging apps like Telegram and Kik have adopted bots — automated accounts from third partners like publishers and brands …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and MediaNama
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Financial Times launches Lantern, a newsroom analytics tool to make audience data accessible to journalists  —  The FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable for its newsroom  —  The Financial Times on Thursday launched a new newsroom analytics tool that's meant …
Discussion: @elanazak
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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Mariah Stewart / The Huffington Post:
Videographer Mary Moore convicted of failure to comply with police order in Ferguson, gets suspended sentence
Discussion: Business Insider
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
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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