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9:20 AM ET, March 31, 2016

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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  —  Annotation Startup Genius to Launch Advertising Business  —  Company known for its music lyric database hires first revenue chief
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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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 …
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”  —  Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis  —  Exclusive: German historian shows how news agency retained access …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside the launch of Bloomberg's new tech-and-travel series Hello World, and Bloomberg's plans for two more web series to launch within weeks  —  Bloomberg's Hello World tech-and-travel show trades talking heads for Vice-like filmmaking  —  For Bloomberg, making video for the web means rethinking everything …
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 …
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  —  Fullscreen Enters Crowded Subscription Video Marketplace  —  Digital media company believes young fans will pay $4.99 a month for Web originals featuring YouTube stars
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer  —  Spotify Raises $1 Billion in Debt Financing  —  TPG and Dragoneer Investment Group lead the Spotify debt deal  —  Music-streaming site Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from investors …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times won't retract or post a correction to NFL story  —  The New York Times will not retract a story about the National Football League's research into player concussions that also suggested ties between the NFL and the tobacco industry.  —  A lawyer for the league demanded …
 
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Rory Gallivan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Online content creator and platform Playbuzz raises $15M led by Saban Ventures and Walt Disney
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Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant sentenced to prison in Hanoi in renewed push against independent media and free expression
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Gederts Gelzis / Reuters:
Latvia shuts down pro-Kremlin website Sputnik, drawing Moscow rebuke
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Yahoo to skip lavish NewFront event this year, host private event May 4 amid losses in video
 

 
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

George Steer / Financial Times:
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets
 
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