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8:20 AM ET, March 15, 2017

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Maddow's teasing of Trump tax return release, in bid to boost ratings, backfires as White House distributes the document in question during show  —  NBC coined the slogan “Must-See TV” more than two decades ago; tonight, MSNBC invented “hurry-up-and-wait” TV.
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Russia Today launches fact-checking project, FakeCheck, cites examples of “anti-Russian and anti-Assad propaganda” like WaPo power grid hack story  —  In a post-truth world, it's sometimes hard to distinguish between what is real and what is fake news.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Erin McPike, White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, lands only press spot on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Asia  —  Erin McPike, the White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, was the only journalist to have a seat on the trip.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: Snap plans to prioritize placement of original shows for Snapchat Discover; media firms split in choosing licensing fee, sticking with ad revenue share  —  Snap wants Snapchat Discover to be more like TV — and longtime media partners, as always, will be expected to adapt.
Discussion: @sizpatel
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Alan Travis / The Guardian:
MPs grill representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google over online hate speech and other offensive material  —  Committee tells Twitter, Facebook and others they should get tough on online abuse, with one MP accusing them of ‘commercial prostitution’  —  Social media companies including …
Discussion: BBC and Daily Mail
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, approves AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner  —  “This is an important approval,” says an executive of the telecom giant, which has been working with the U.S. Department of Justice as it reviews the $85.4 billion deal.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Axios plans to hire about a dozen more before end of 2017 and is now expanding into science coverage  —  Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen's new media venture is already expanding beyond its core sweet spots.  —  Around the time that Donald Trump packed up his things and headed south to run the country …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Former TV anchor Willow Bay, spouse of Disney CEO Bob Iger, becomes first female dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism  —  Just under thee years after she became the director of USC Annenberg School for Journalism, Willow Bay today has shattered a glass ceiling at the SoCal institute.
 
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
The many ties between Murdoch and Trump offer mutual benefits, with the tenor of Fox News in particular echoing Trump's nationalism and hostility to other media
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham to stand down; the broadcaster prematurely tweeted a statement about his resignation
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