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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Hogan's $140M Gawker verdict raises questions about privacy, exploitation of already unpopular news media, and chilling effects on newsrooms — Why Hulk Hogan's $115 Million Gawker Verdict Is a Signpost for the Future — Emboldened public figures, using sharper tactics …
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New York Times, Bloomberg View, @cherylbame, USA Today, @thestalwart, New York Times, Boing Boing, Simple Justice and @resnikoff
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $25M in punitive damages: $15M from Gawker, $10M from Denton, and $100K from Daulerio — Hulk Hogan Trial: Gawker's Nick Denton Slammed With $10M Punitive Damages Verdict — Gawker told the jury that it was worth $83 million and the verdict is “debilitating.”
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TMZ.com, CNNMoney, @tomkludt, Politico, Re/code, The Verge, WWD, New York Magazine, @thr, @chrisgeidner, Los Angeles Times, Techdirt and Pro Wrestling Dot Net
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Gawker defense lays out financials: assets of $83M, gross revenue of $48.7M last year; Denton's net worth is $121M; Daulerio's $27K in student debt disclosed — Gawker Asks for Leniency as Jury Deliberates Adding to $115M Judgment in Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Trial
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@nytimesbits, Ad Age, @morisy, @coreyhutchins, @alexsteigrad, @petersterne, @tomkludt, @tomkludt, @annamphillips and Fortune
Seth Stevenson / Slate:
A week with reporters covering Trump: protests, lack of press aides, insults, banishment of media, and trying not to become inured to lies — A Week on the Trail With the “Disgusting Reporters” Covering Donald Trump — What it's like to write about a candidate who hates you.
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BuzzFeed, @karenattiah, TIME, Washington Post, Fortune, @dliebelson, @politibunny, @oliverdarcy, @therickwilson, @dylanbyers, Mediaite, @karenattiah, @jamilsmith, Mashable and Politico
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Trump fails to give specifics about how he would change libel laws in Washington Post interview after his earlier calls for “opening up” libel laws — Donald Trump has no earthly idea what he'd do about libel laws — As this blog has noted before, Donald Trump has reveled …
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New York Magazine, Guardian, Slate, @wesleylowery, @alexweprin, Washington Post, @erikwemple, @brianstelter, @evansolomon and Mother Jones
Bloomberg Business:
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on ten years of Twitter, the importance of the written word, live media, augmenting reality, and thoughts about the future — The Future of Twitter: Q&A with Jack Dorsey — An in-depth conversation on 10 years of tweeting, the importance of live media, and “the puddle.”
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Bloomberg Business, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Adweek, The Twitter Blog, @support, GeekWire, broadstuff, SocialTimes, @bhadravathi, VentureBeat, @palafo, @kevinpokeeffe, @gerryfsmith, @fmanjoo, @reagangomez, Fast Company, @perlmutations, @jamilsmith, FishbowlNY, @katierogers, @bradstone, @blackinformant, @richardengel, @sarahfrier, Daily Mail, The Independent, The Register, BBC, @wfederman, VentureBeat and The Atlantic
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
VICE's February traffic plunges 17.4%, to 49.1M unique visitors, compared to 59.5M in January — Vice Media Traffic Plummets, Underscoring Risky Web Strategy — Vice Media has come into the month of March looking more like a lamb than the proverbial lion.
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@elanazak, @deep_beige, @jayrosen_nyu, @mattbraga, @maura, @mathewi and @n8brown
Chris Krewson / Billy Penn:
Gannett takes minority stake in owner of Philadelphia's Billy Penn, Spirited Media, to fund more staff and expansion to other cities — Gannett, nation's largest newspaper company, invests in Billy Penn parent — The nation's largest newspaper company is placing a bet on Billy Penn.
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@politifact, @joshcornfield, @dankennedy_nu, Business Wire, @meena_thiru, @andrew_dunn and @jeremymbarr
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Medium spins off publication Matter as Matter Studios, which aims to be HBO for digital storytellers, funded by Ev Williams, led by Mark Lotto and Hillary Frey — Medium spins off Matter into new company owned by Ev Williams — The self-publishing service and social network Medium …
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Nieman Lab, Matter, @ev, @alexweprin, The Story, The Next Web, @joepompeo, @lescharm, Mashable, @n8brown, Fortune, @janefriedman, @joelcifer, @liatkornowski, @ktzhu, @helfitzgerald, @jayrosen_nyu, @bobbie, @andrewcrow, @akilahobviously, @ismashfizzle, @designmeans, @readmatter, FishbowlNY, @matlock, @marciahofmann, @lauraolin, @amberdiscko, @vivian, @pkafka, @kimbost, @lauraolin, @lpolgreen, @heyfeifer, @joepompeo, @rachsyme, @sfiegerman, @jasonabbruzzese and @mathewi
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press total revenue down 6.8% to £242.3M YOY, digital ads made up 20.6% of total ad rev, print ads fell 11.9%; i acquisition to be completed April 10 — Johnston Press shareholders overwhelmingly back i purchase as company boosts pre-tax profits
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Guardian, RTÉ, Reuters, HoldTheFrontPage and Johnston Press plc
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
The New Republic shuts down content marketing arm, Novel; number of staff departing from company on April 1, including chief revenue officer Kayvan Salmanpour — New Republic Pulls the Plug on Novel — Hamilton Fish, who recently joined New Republic as publisher and editorial director …
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MinOnline, Media Wire Daily, @jeremymbarr and Ad Age
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Verizon kills FiOS live TV apps for Xbox and smart TVs — You can still use FiOS TV mobile apps or rent another set-top box. — Verizon is telling customers that its FiOS TV apps for Xbox game consoles and smart TVs will be discontinued, limiting the options for hardware on which to view live programming.
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