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6:50 AM ET, April 15, 2016

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 Top News: 
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Col Allan, editor-in-chief of the New York Post and longest-serving editor at News Corp, is retiring, will be succeeded May 1 by Sunday editor Stephen Lynch  —  New York Post editor in chief Col Allan is retiring  —  Col Allan, longtime editor in chief of the New York Post and consigliere …
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 …
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
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 …
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Media organizations win right to report anonymized issues on injunction hearing of alleged celebrity threesome  —  Media wins right to report on celebrity injunction hearing  —  Application argued for right to report anonymised issues in case involving alleged threesome in interest of open justice
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Google removes search results to articles containing references to celebrity scandal in response to legal requests
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
Discussion: Guardian, Forbes and @jaslar
New York Times:
Sumner Redstone Won't Have to Give Deposition in Competency Suit  —  The ailing media mogul Sumner M. Redstone will not be required to sit for a deposition in the legal battle over his mental competency, a California judge ruled during a brief hearing on Thursday.
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 …
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 …
Politico:
Inside the European Commission's efforts to create a digital single market and how the creative industry is pushing back  —  Copyright fight club  —  EU wants to change how millions watch Hollywood films and YouTube videos, but legacy media groups are pushing back hard.
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
How the 20-strong Bloomberg Graphics team creates interactives using algorithms and low-tech manual persistence  —  How Bloomberg's 20-person graphics team visualizes the news  —  Last month, Washington D.C.'s Metro system experienced an unprecedented situation: It was shutting …
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
 
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Ke Jin / AllChinaTech:
Tencent and Vox Media to produce Chinese version of The Verge with translations and WeChat account
Discussion: Tech in Asia
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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
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Appalshop's WMMT, a community radio station run largely by 50 volunteer DJs in Appalachia
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Twitter generates 1.5% of traffic for typical news organizations, 8 tweets per post, 3 clicks per tweet, says Parse.ly report that analyzed data from 200 sites
Discussion: Wired, Marketing Land and SocialTimes
 

 
From Techmeme:

Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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