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2:30 PM ET, April 4, 2016

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ICIJ The Panama Papers:
ICIJ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 100+ media orgs cooperate on investigation of Panama Papers, 11.5M leaked docs on offshore dealings of officials, celebrities, more  —  Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption  —  Files reveal the offshore holdings …
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Süddeutsche Zeitung:
How Süddeutsche Zeitung received and investigated with global media partners the 2.6TB of Panama Papers data  —  About the Panama Papers  —  Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Observer Editor Ken Kurson read, gave input on speech by Donald Trump; NYO is owned by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner  —  New York Observer Editor Doesn't Regret Involvement With Donald Trump's AIPAC Speech  —  NEW YORK — New York Observer Editor Ken Kurson read and provided input …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
NBCU and Vox Will Start Selling Ads on Each Other's Sites  —  Partnership touting fast-loading, custom ads follows NBCU's $200 million investment in Vox  —  Comcast Corp. 's NBCUniversal agreed to make a $200 million strategic investment in the digital media company Vox Media in August.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says company will release details on new 8th-gen Kindle next week  —  Amazon will announce a new Kindle next week  —  Amazon will introduce a new “top of the line” Kindle next week, says company CEO Jeff Bezos.  Bezos announced the news on Twitter this afternoon …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Rodale's Prevention Magazine drops print ads, raises newsstand price to $4.99 from $3.99, cuts 13 sales jobs, reducing operating expenses by over 50%  —  Prevention Magazine Takes Radical Step: No Print Ads  —  Rodale opts to raise newsstand, subscription prices and slash costs by eliminating ad pages
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Legacy media needs to focus on one business model - advertising or subscriptions, like Jessica Lessin's tech news site The Information  —  Paid Or Ad-Supported: Pick One Model, And Stick With It  —  Playing both sides of digital models is becoming increasingly perilous.
Discussion: @filloux and @raju
Hunter Walk:
To make real money, podcasts should stop calling themselves “podcasts”, because the term is synonymous with “free”  —  To Make Real Money, The Podcast Industry Needs to Stop Calling Them Podcasts  —  Podcasts are big business.  At least that's what the articles keep telling me.
Discussion: @paulsingh and @tapewrite
Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune:
Behind Nerdist Industries media empire: a podcast network with 49 shows, website, YouTube channel with 1.5M subscribers, and more  —  How Comedian Chris Hardwick Became King of the Nerds  —  Nerdist CEO Chris Hardwick got his start on MTV in the early 1990s.  But at heart, he's always been a big nerd.
Discussion: @wfederman
 
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Maldives police arrest 16 independent journalists
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Black Lives Matter: the movement, the organization, and how journalists get it wrong
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Stephanie Hayes / The Atlantic:
Children and teens are tuning into podcasts but there are very few shows tailored to young audiences
Discussion: @mathewi
Alison Flood / Guardian:
VIDA: bylines of women see increase at many major publications; women of color, disabled women underrepresented
Discussion: @sarahmedway
 

 
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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

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

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PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

 
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