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9:40 PM ET, February 28, 2017

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Peter Kafka / Recode:
YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations  —  Meet YouTube TV.  —  YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
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Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube viewers worldwide watch more than 1B hours of video a day, a 10-fold increase since 2012, threatening to eclipse US TV viewership
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
President Trump and his aides condemn anonymous leaks to reporters, unless the leaks come from themselves  —  President Trump and his aides despise and condemn anonymous leaks to reporters.  —  Except, of course, when they are the ones doing the leaking.  —  On the"Fox & Friends" …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer was source of story about a Politico reporter laughing at the death of a Navy SEAL, after the reporter published an unflattering anecdote about him  —  Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's treatment …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Penguin Random House to publish books by Barack and Michelle Obama, at a price sources say likely stretches to “tens of millions”  —  Penguin Random House will publish forthcoming books by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the former first lady …
Nat Levy / GeekWire:
AWS says it has fixed cloud storage issues affecting northern Virginia data centers, which affected some media sites  —  This is a developing story.  We will update it as more information becomes available.  —  UPDATE: 2:15 p.m.: Amazon Web Services has fixed all the issues related to the cloud storage outage Tuesday.
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Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat:
AWS investigating S3 issues that affected US-EAST-1 region of data centers in northern Virginia and impaired sites including Quora, Trello, IFTTT, Imgur  —  Fortscale, which uses machine learning and big data analytics to detect malicious user behaviour, announced today a funding round of $7 million.
Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN will attend the White House Correspondents Dinner and will bring journalism students as its guests instead of celebrities  —  “We stand with the WHCA 100 percent,” said the network in a statement shortly after President Trump explained why he plans to skip the annual “Nerd Prom.”
Veit Medick / Spiegel Online:
Inside Alex Jones' media empire, which ardently supports Trump and often spreads false propaganda to aid his administration  —  Right-wing radio host Alex Jones is America's top conspiracy theorist.  He has millions of listeners, but his most powerful one happens to be the president of the United States.
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says the WSJ and NYT are the only two papers with an assured future, as they have a proven model for earning revenue from digital  —  Buffett: These two newspapers will likely survive...  Warren Buffett thinks only two newspapers are certain to survive the industry's hugely difficult climate …
Broadcasting & Cable:
Sen. Dick Durbin tells broadcasters that Trump's attacks on media mirror Soviet tactics in the Baltics, lays out three-part plan to protect journalists  —  Says as among most trusted outlets, they must report ‘without fear or favor’  —  Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took aim …
Amanda Kludt / Eater:
Vox's foodie travel site, Eater, will expand to London later this spring  —  Eater London rumblings, a standing steakhouse, and more weekly restaurant intel from Eater's editor-in-chief … Note From the Road:  —  We plan to launch Eater London — a dream of mine for years …
Rossalyn Warren / The Guardian:
In Burundi, a secret network of journalists work covertly, reporting on the country's dictator, Pierre Nkurunziza, who dismisses negative stories as “fake news”  —  Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza
 
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