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5:05 PM ET, March 7, 2017

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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Wikileaks releases large cache of alleged CIA classified documents, detailing hacking tools for iPhones and Android phones, Samsung smart TVs, and more  —  WikiLeaks on Tuesday published a massive trove of documents purportedly pertaining to the CIA's hacking programs …
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Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
WikiLeaks dares reporters to go on a scoop scavenger hunt as they wrestle with how to approach its information  —  Since around the time of the presidential election in November, the U.S. media has taken a hard look at its tumultuous love affair with WikiLeaks.
Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian:
According to WikiLeaks docs, CIA and MI5/BTSS developed method for spying via Samsung F8000 TVs
Discussion: Reuters and Softpedia News
Angus Crawford / BBC:
As BBC probed Facebook's failure to remove 82 of 100 sexualized images of children it had flagged, Facebook reported BBC to UK's police and canceled interview  —  Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Forbes begins rolling out new mobile site, which it says loads in 0.8 seconds, introduces new story format called Cards, modelled after Snapchat Stories  —  PWAs are backed by Google and promise one thing above all else: speed.  —  With its intersitial quotes and lengthy load times …
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
Women's news sites like Bustle and The Cut are going on strike for IWD protest on Weds; Jezebel will be run by male staff members for the day  —  “A Day Without A Woman” will be a day without content for some outlets.  —  Women's solidarity march, Washington DC, USA - 21 Jan 2017
Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
BBC Worldwide and ITV's joint streaming service, BritBox, launches in the US for $7/month, available on web, AppleTV, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices  —  BritBox, the streaming child of British media giants BBC Worldwide and ITV, has officially launched stateside.
Discussion: Digiday, TechCrunch, The Verge and Fortune
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Filing: pay dropped 13% YoY for New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., to $5.1M; CEO Mark Thompson's pay dropped 43% YoY following 2015 retention bonus  —  NYT editor: Trump's attacks are “failing”  —  The New York Times' leadership took significant pay cuts last year …
Discussion: The Wrap and @dylanbyers
CNN:
CNN launches immersive journalism and virtual reality unit, CNNVR, which will cover major news events and produce VR livestreams  —  CNN announced today the official launch of CNNVR - a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform within CNN Digital.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Fast Company and Engadget
Ben Sullivan / Motherboard:
Bellingcat, the open source investigations site, launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund expansion of training and archiving  —  When open source investigation network Bellingcat launched off the back of a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, founder Eliot Higgins probably never imagined his work …
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
How the NYT, WaPo, and Politico have adapted to the exhausting process of covering Trump, whose unpredictable weekend tweets have upended the news cycle  —  President Trump has attempted to undercut the U.S. media in a number of ways — by calling them the “enemy”; by denying coverage credentials …
 
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