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7:35 AM ET, March 22, 2016

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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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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.”
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
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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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 …
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.”
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Angela Doland / Ad Age:
GroupM: 49.7% of total ad spend in China will go toward the Internet this year, up 30% year-over-year; 31% of worldwide ad spend will go toward the Internet
Sky News:
Sky to make live sport available to all its TV customers at no extra cost
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
European pay-TV giant Sky's CFO Andrew Griffith adds COO title to responsibilities
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Report forecasts U.S ad spending to grow 3.7% this year, digital to overtake TV as biggest category in 2017
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Best-selling author James Patterson to launch Bookshots, short novels that can be read in a single sitting
Andy / TorrentFreak:
EU Commission inquiry reveals 68% of digital content providers geo-block in EU, content supplier contracts forcing it may be investigated