Top News:
New York Times:
Battery charge against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after incident with ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields is officially dropped — Battery Charge Against Corey Lewandowski, Trump Campaign Manager, Is Dropped — Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald J. Trump …
Discussion:
CNN, Gretawire, TheBlaze.com, NBC News, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, @bencjacobs, Washington Post, @sopandeb, VICE, @brianentin, Washington Post, Hot Air, Sun-Sentinel, International Business Times, Guardian, @acosta, @brianentin, Death and Taxes, @jettgoldsmith, The Wrap, iMediaEthics, Fortune, TVNewser, CBS News, Washington Times, NBC News, Daily Mail, People.com, New York Magazine, New York Times, The Week, Politico, Independent Journal …, Mediaite and ABC News
Sacramento Bee:
UC Davis spent $175K to remove references to 2011 pepper-spraying incident from search results — UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet — UC Davis sought to eliminate negative search results for school and chancellor — Strategic communications budget soared during Katehi's tenure
Discussion:
Sacramento Bee, Boing Boing, Mediaite, Washington Post, Guardian, CBS Sacramento, Techdirt, @asherlangton, @mhendr1cks, Hit & Run, @mattcutts, Business Insider, @allisonkilkenny, @jackshafer, Death and Taxes, Fusion, TIME, ThinkProgress, Gizmodo, @mario_bruzzone, @roseperson, @cbdawson, @mattdpearce, Associated Press, The Verge, Gawker, Reuters, The TickerThe Ticker, Newser, KXTV, Fortune and Mashable
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
The New York Times to invest $50M in global expansion over the next three years, with a team led by international editor Joe Kahn — Times sinks $50M into international push with ‘NYT Global’ — The New York Times will invest $50 million in its global expansion strategy over the next three years …
Discussion:
New York Times, The New York Times Company, @nickkristof, The Wrap, Guardian, Politico, Bloomberg, Press Gazette, Poynter and FishbowlNY
Source:
Lead ICIJ coordinator says organization will release structured data, the internal Mossack Fonseca database, not the 11.5M files, in early May — The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers — How Long-Term Infrastructure-Building Enabled the Biggest Leak in Data Journalism History
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
TNR editor in chief Gabriel Snyder is leaving the magazine — Gabriel Synder, editor in chief of The New Republic for the past 17 months, is leaving the magazine in the wake of its sale to Win McCormack, POLITICO has learned. — The masthead change marks the first big move since McCormack …
Discussion:
CNNMoney, Talking Points Memo, FishbowlNY, @jonfine, @gabrielsnyder, @kelseymsutton, @heerjeet, @davidharsanyi, The Huffington Post and @joepompeo
Mike Murphy / Quartz:
ESPN to livestream three-day drone racing event on ESPN3 and air one-hour roundup specials for TV, as skeptics question the nascent sport's mainstream appeal — Pod racing goes prime time — Your browser does not support HTML5 video. — There's a hotel in Williamsburg …
Discussion:
ESPN MediaZone, Fortune, Ars Technica, MarketWatch, Tech Insider, WXYZ-TV, International Business Times, CNBC, CNET, Newsweek, Silicon Republic, Yahoo, Lovesick Cyborg, Jalopnik, The Verge, The Wrap, Mashable, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, TIME, The Verge and GeekWire, Thanks:@mcwm
Poynter:
Gannett, Hearst, McClatchy, Tribune announce Nucleus Marketing Solutions ad consortium, covering top 30 US markets; ex-Mashable CRO Seth Rogin named CEO — Newspaper kingpins launch marketing consortium … Four of America's largest newspaper companies on Thursday announced a marketing cooperative …
Discussion:
Business Insider, Gannett and Wall Street Journal
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal to Offer Guarantees on Its Data-Driven Ad Targeting — Media giant will guarantee television audiences based on data beyond traditional Nielsen TV ratings — Ahead of the spring “upfront” presentations to pitch new programming to marketers, NBCUniversal is enhancing its product …
Dennis Coday / National Catholic Reporter:
Catholic News Service Editor-in-Chief Tony Spence is forced to resign after criticism by blogs that accused him of promoting LGBT agenda — Catholic News Service editor asked to resign — Tony Spence, director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service since 2004 …
Discussion:
@tonyspence, @stephenschneck, @steveskojec, @kevineckstrom, @sr_simone, @vayhi, @hthompson, @gehringdc, The Lepanto Institute and LifeSiteNews
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Google removes search results to articles containing references to celebrity scandal in response to legal requests — Google removes links on celebrity injunction couple — Internet giant has blocked dozens of search links containing references to star and alleged ‘threesome’ after legal requests
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Study: UK 2015 digital ad spend grew 16.4% YoY to £8.6B, mobile accounted for 30.5% of all digital, up 60% to £2.6B, video up 98% to £353M — The UK digital ad market is holding up to challenges — The U.K. advertising market seems to have had a fairly resilient 2015 …
Discussion:
Telecompaper, Silicon Republic, Netimperative, campaignlive.co.uk, The Drum and Guardian
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
Australian Federal Police admit to seeking access without a warrant to Guardian reporter Paul Farrell's metadata in an attempt to identify his sources — Federal police admit seeking access to reporter's metadata without warrant — AFP asked for ‘subscriber checks’ relating …
Discussion:
@lydia_shelly, @farrellpf, @kon__k, mUmBRELLA, Mashable and Forbes
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
