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12:50 PM ET, March 10, 2017

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, BBC, and more protest US secretary of state's plan for no media on his trip to Asia  —  D.C. bureau chiefs from major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Anonymous donor gives $1M to fund NYTimes.com subscriptions for students, joining 15.5K other donors to provide access to 1.3M students  —  The New York Times has shared some big numbers about the “Sponsor a Subscription” program that it launched in February: Thanks to contributions from 15,500 donors …
Maev Kennedy / The Guardian:
Food blogger Jack Monroe has won about $30K in Twitter libel case against Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins  —  Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial  —  The food writer and campaigner Jack Monroe …
Discussion: Press Gazette, BBC, mirror and @davidtpegg
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.  —  Competitive sales process for publisher appears to be nearing completion, even in the wake of Bronfman group dropping its bid
Discussion: @asharma, @jeffreyt1 and Fortune
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
7 newsrooms have closed their Politifact chapters since the presidential election, including The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Providence Journal  —  PolitiFact, the national political fact-checking franchise started by the Poynter-owned Tampa Bay Times, has lost seven of its statewide partners since the presidential campaign.
Discussion: @itsren and @benmullin
Ross Benes / Digiday:
BI UK will test an anti-ad blocker prompting readers to either whitelist BI, pay for an ad-free subscription, or pay a few pennies to see an article ad-free  —  As its staff sized nearly doubled over the last year to 45 employees, Business Insider U.K. moved shop in January to a larger co-working space …
Discussion: @larakiara
James Warren / Poynter:
New Jersey journalists launch Montclair Local, a 2-section, 16-page weekly newspaper costing $12/year, delivered to about 15K households  —  Montclair is a New Jersey bastion of the Trump-doubting privileged class that went back to the future Thursday with an imperiled species: a new broadsheet newspaper.
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  —  Data: Consumer Technology Association; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios  —  A new Consumer Technology Association study finds …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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  —  On election night last year, the political journalists and analysts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann appeared on …
 
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Alex Spence / BuzzFeed:
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Discussion: Fortune
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
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