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10:15 AM ET, March 24, 2016

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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Blendle launches pay-per-story app in the US with articles from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and Financial Times, starting at $.09 each  —  Paid journalism startup Blendle launches in the U.S.  —  Blendle, the Dutch journalism start-up developing an iTunes-style payment method …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Sources: Google building Periscope-like live streaming app YouTube Connect for iOS and Android  —  Google is building YouTube Connect, a livestreaming app to take on Periscope  —  EXCLUSIVE:  —  Google has quietly been building a new livestreaming app called YouTube Connect, VentureBeat has learned.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Interview with GroundSource founder Andrew Haeg, on using messaging over SMS, WhatsApp, more to build community for news sites and others  —  GroundSource is trying to help news sites build community through text-message conversations  —  “I can't imagine many stronger indications …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen to Break Out Metrics for Apple TV, Roku, Other Connected-TV Devices  —  Nielsen promises to give clients a look next month at usage metrics for connected-TV devices — including Roku and Apple TV set-tops — segmented by individual brand and device type.
Oscar Williams / Guardian:
British journalism is 94% white and 55% male, survey reveals  —  More women than men are entering the profession but female journalists remain underpaid and under-promoted, new research finds  —  The British journalism industry is 94% white, 86% university-educated and 55% male …
Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:
Poynter creates resource guide highlighting Pulitzer winners participating in “social justice journalism”  —  Hate and racism in the South gave rise to ‘social justice journalism’  —  This year marks the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, a celebration in which the Poynter Institute is a key player.
Discussion: @timafranklin and @kellymcb
Leslie Picker / New York Times:
Sources: TiVo in merger talks with Rovi, would own about 30% of the combined company  —  TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi  —  TiVo, the digital video recorder company that popularized the DVR and revolutionized “time shifting” and fast-forwarding through advertising …
Discussion: Seeking Alpha
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas, with a paid print circulation near 20K and a site with 1M unique visitors per month  —  Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas  —  Bhaskar Sunkara is very eager not to turn into one of the bosses he wants to overthrow.
Guardian:
Sun publisher posts £250m loss due to write-down and hacking costs  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers pushed to loss as value of publishing rights falls and £50m is set aside to deal with continuing cost of hacking scandal  —  The publisher of the Sun has recorded a loss …
Muneeza Naqvi / Associated Press:
Indian reporter arrested after posting criticism of police  —  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in eastern India arrested a local journalist and beat him after he criticized authorities on social media and demanded a law protecting reporters in a region embroiled in a Maoist insurgency, his supporters said Wednesday.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
For France's Libération, Facebook Instant Articles drives a 30 percent increase in time spent  —  As an experiment, French political publisher Libération has spent the last two months publishing each of its 150 daily articles to Facebook Instant Articles.  It turns out, people like reading articles there.
Discussion: @mathewi
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Nick Denton / Gawker:
Hogan suit was about racist comments on another videotape, and Gawker will win on appeal
 
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