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4:40 PM ET, March 11, 2017

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio reporter Jon Decker, a member of WHCA board, confronts Gateway Pundit staffer Lucian Wintrich in WH press room; Wintrich claims he was assaulted  —  A Fox News Radio correspondent confronted in the White House briefing room the White House reporter for a website that traffics …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook will stream at least 22 live MLS matches in 2017 in English, through deal with MLS and Univision Deportes  —  As competition in the live streaming space heats up, Facebook has scored a significant deal that will allow it to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer matches on its social network.
Washington Post:
Records show no fixed address for Steve Bannon as he built Breitbart; 2013 salary was listed as $750K on rental application, plus $270K from Arc Entertainment  —  In the three years before he became Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Political journalism, ripe for groupthink, produced a failure of the “wisdom of crowds” during the election, which led to an underestimation of Trump's chances  —  This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election …
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Profile of Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a friend of Trump who has emerged over the past few weeks as one of the president's most prominent unofficial spokesmen  —  Chris Ruddy is the Zelig of the Trump administration.  —  He's on CNN, blasting the White House chief of staff.
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
WikiLeaks' CIA document cache, which focuses on compromising devices and not apps, underscores the strength of Signal's and WhatsApp's encryption  —  On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”
Alan Rusbridger / New Statesman:
As 21CF seeks OK to take over Sky, regulators must remember Murdochs don't play by the rules  —  Why the billionaire's bid for Sky should be opposed.  —  Water under the bridge?  That was my gut reaction when - to no one's great surprise - Rupert Murdoch announced last December that …
Discussion: @arusbridger and @janinegibson
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Following buyouts, Postmedia to lay off 54 staffers at Vancouver Sun and Province around April 8, according to memo to staff  —  Canada's Postmedia company is laying off more than 50 employees at The Vancouver Sun and Province after a months-long buyout process aimed at cutting the company's payroll.
Penelope Green / New York Times:
Profile of Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, which has been redesigned for its April issue and is now called AD  —  One windy morning in February, Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, was showing off her magazine's renovation: a near-gut job, as they say in the trade.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: SoundCloud has been trying to raise $100M since last summer, without success  —  In 2014, the streaming music service thought it was worth $700 million.  It could sell for much less.  —  SoundCloud needs more money, or it needs a buyer.  —  Sources say the streaming music service …
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Arctic Times Project, a nonprofit covering global warming in the Arctic, publishing stories in existing outlets instead of launching its own
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
TheStreet misses estimates, reporting Q4 loss of $11.6M, with revenue of $15.9M, down from $17M the prior year
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a group including Jahm Najafi, of private investment firm Najafi Cos., and Pamplona Capital Management has emerged as a bidder for Time Inc.
Discussion: Fortune
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CTA study finds video viewership has increased by 30% in the last five years, but TV accounts for only about half of all video viewership, down from 62% in 2013
James Warren / Poynter:
New Jersey journalists launch Montclair Local, a 2-section, 16-page weekly newspaper costing $12/year, delivered to about 15K households
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who have sold a book on 2016 election to Penguin, to be published in 2018; HBO plans a miniseries based on book
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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