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4:20 PM ET, March 22, 2016

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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
With switch to digital, Independent journalists being asked to take pay cuts of up to 50%; more than 100 journalists expected to lose their jobs  —  Independent staff to take huge pay cuts in move online-only  —  More than 100 journalists out of a total of 160 expected to lose their jobs …
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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
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
RIAA report: streaming accounted for more US recorded-music revenue than downloads in 2015, rising from 27% in 2014 to 34% in 2015  —  US MUSIC INDUSTRY BODY THE RIAA HAS PUBLISHED ITS FIGURES FOR 2015, REVEALING THAT RECORDED-MUSIC REVENUES ROSE BY 0.9% LAST YEAR TO $7BN.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Google renames Chromecast app “Google Cast”; Vizio P-Series TVs launched with Cast support  —  Google renames Chromecast app ‘Google Cast’, announces Vizio P-Series TVs w/ Cast & Android tablet remote  —  To reflect the recent expansion of its Google Cast streaming platform …
Tony Biasotti / Columbia Journalism Review:
San Francisco Chronicle makes a 20 page feature into a documentary, will debut in April then make the festival rounds  —  What the San Francisco Chronicle hopes to accomplish with its first feature documentary  —  On March 6, the San Francisco Chronicle published “Last Men Standing,” …
Discussion: Variety, @matthew_orr and @tonybiasotti
Guy Chazan / Financial Times:
Bertelsmann plans to increase Penguin Random House stake  —  Bertelsmann, Europe's largest media group by sales, said it planned to increase its stake in Penguin Random House to as much as 75 per cent if co-owner Pearson exited the company next year.  —  Thomas Rabe, Bertelsmann chief executive …
Discussion: Financial Times, Reuters and Guardian
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Profile of Lara Setrakian, who launched Refugees Deeply last week, and the history of News Deeply  —  Lara Setrakian is building a media empire  —  Lara Setrakian is 33 and ready to change the news industry.  Again.  —  Three years ago, she co-founded News Deeply, a media company centered …
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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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
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
James Marcus Named Editor of Harper's  —  Harper's has named James Marcus its new editor.  He most recently served as the magazine's executive editor.  —  Marcus joined Harper's in 2010 as deputy editor.  He was named executive editor in 2013.  Before joining Harper's Marcus served …
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.”
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
BBC Names Mark Linsey as Director of Production Division BBC Studios  —  LONDON — The U.K. public broadcaster the BBC has named Mark Linsey as the director of its inhouse production division, BBC Studios.  —  Linsey has been acting director of BBC Television since October 2015 …
 
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
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