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12:30 PM ET, March 31, 2016

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Turner leads $15M investment in Mashable, will work together to develop digital and linear content and collaborate on advertising  —  Turner Leads $15 Million Investment in Mashable  —  Media companies plan to collaborate on TV content creation, ad deals  —  Turner has led a new $15 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Analysis of stories on news aggregator Memeorandum shows how Trump dominates media beyond just cable TV  —  How Trump Hacked The Media  —  Trump's dominance on cable news isn't the whole story.  —  Donald Trump took over the news cycle on Feb. 26, as he had so many times before.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches a podcast team to create a new batch of wide-reaching shows  —  Another news organization has decided to invest in podcasts, and this one's a biggie: The New York Times is creating a new audio team that will work to launch a batch of news and opinion podcasts this year and more in 2017.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @jbenton
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to allow muted video ads in Instant Articles and one additional ad unit at bottom of articles  —  Video Ads Are Coming to Facebook Instant Articles  —  The social network will also allow more advertising in every Instant Article  —  Facebook is making further changes …
Discussion: Digiday and Engadget
Rachel Browne / VICE News:
Canadian judge rules Vice reporter Ben Makuch must hand over instant messages with Canadian accused of terrorism and joining ISIS Farah Shirdon  —  Canadian Judge Orders VICE News Journalist to Hand Over Digital Messages  —  An Ontario court has ruled that a VICE News reporter must hand …
New York Times:
Facebook Live video entices media outlets as it draws big audiences, but revenue options remain unclear despite Facebook assurances  —  Facebook's Live Video Effort Entices Media Companies  —  When severe weather passed through the Atlanta area early this month, Brad Nitz …
Wall Street Journal:
Video Creators Are Frustrated With Pace of Facebook's Antipirating Efforts  —  Copyright infringement hits them in the pocketbook and the company often is too slow to respond, they say  —  Filmmaker Brady Haran uploaded a video to his science-focused YouTube channel showing what happens when you drop Lithium metal into 7 Up soda.
Discussion: @perlberg
Alex Spence / Politico:
Financial Times print and online circulation up 8% this year to 780K, digital subscriptions up 12% to 566K  —  Financial Times circulation rises 8% on digital sales  —  LONDON — The Financial Times' paying audience in print and online increased by 8 percent this year to 780,000, the media company said in a statement Wednesday.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Quora acquires Parlio, Wael Ghonim's Q&A and conversation site, in first acquisition  —  Quora's first acquisition is Arab Spring instigator's Q&A site Parlio  —  “Ex-con” isn't normally something you find on a founder's resume.  But Google employee Wael Ghonim went to jail for sparking the Egyptian Revolution.
Discussion: Quora, @ghonim, VatorNews and The Next Web
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
In the U.K. and Finland, public media is thriving on digital; in other European countries, not so much  —  The BBC reaches 68 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.K., both online and offline, in a given week.  The German public media organization ZDF, meanwhile, reaches just 24 percent of that age group.
Discussion: Guardian
 
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Review of FOIA Mapper, a Knight-backed tool designed to make FOIA requests easier
Discussion: @kristenhare and Poynter
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times won't retract or post a correction to NFL story
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant sentenced to prison in Hanoi in renewed push against independent media and free expression
Discussion: bangkokpost.com
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Fullscreen to launch streaming service April 26, featuring 800 hours of content, including programming from YouTube stars and older TV series for $5 per month
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Historian shows how AP cooperated with Nazis to retain access, allowed regime to use photos for propaganda; AP rejects idea it “collaborated”
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Annotation startup Genius hires its first revenue chief, Ronen Shapiro, formerly of Pandora and Vice Media, as it preps to build ad business
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer