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4:50 PM ET, March 14, 2017

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media signs expanded deal with Snap, under which it will produce shows exclusively for Snapchat, including an eight-episode dating series  —  Snapchat continues to beef up its lineup of premium short-form shows: Snap Inc. and Vice Media have struck an expanded deal under which Vice will produce shows exclusively for Snapchat.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Axios plans to hire about a dozen more before end of 2017 and is now expanding now 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 …
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Network sees ratings surge after abandoning straight business news for politics with a right-wing voice and becoming a Trump defender  —  It turns out Donald Trump never would have needed to launch his own cable-news outlet if he'd lost the election.  He already has one: It's called the Fox Business Network.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Sam Parr, founder and CEO of The Hustle, a newsletter that covers tech/business, has 300K subs and raised $300K from readers by offering stock  —  “One guy put in a hundred grand.”  —  Launching a general-interest tech and business news site these days seems like kind of a dumb idea — there's way too much competition.
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Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Report: questioned about his rumoured 2020 bid for the White House, Disney CEO Bob Iger neither confirmed nor denied the story  —  Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger won't consider running for President of the United States at the moment, but he didn't rule out a White House bid once his schedule clears up, according to CNN's Chloe Melas.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Senator Jeanne Shaheen introduces bill to give DoJ additional authority to investigate RT America for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act  —  New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is introducing a bill that would give the Justice Department additional authority …
Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
AP analysis: Obama administration spent $36.2M on legal costs incurred by fighting FOIA requests, setting a record for outright denial of access to files  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google adds “Upsetting-Offensive” tag for its quality raters to use in flagging search results; Google engineer says “demonstrably inaccurate” info is a target  —  Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers.
BBC:
Facebook says moderation “was not working” in response to BBC probe of sexualized photos of children on FB, where 82 of 100 reported posts were not removed  —  A Facebook executive has admitted to MPs its moderating process “was not working” following a BBC investigation.
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
An iTunes chart-topping podcast, Missing Richard Simmons, crosses ethical and moral lines, invading the privacy of a reclusive celebrity  —  For decades, the fitness guru Richard Simmons was Hollywood's most accessible celebrity.  He was a talk show fixture, a leader of weight loss cruises …
 
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Alex Spence / BuzzFeed:
Google refuses request from MPs to remove anti-Semitic video that talked of “white genocide”, as exec tells UK committee hate speech guidelines weren't violated
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham to stand down; the broadcaster prematurely tweeted a statement about his resignation
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
HBO will debut a documentary about ex-Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee, who oversaw the paper when it broke the Watergate story
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Michael Schuman / Washington Post:
By disparaging media in US, Trump gives tacit permission for autocratic authorities around the world to dismiss press reports as false and to harass journalists
New York Times:
Sources: ex-Fox News CFO Mark Kranz among those subpoenaed for federal grand jury
 

 
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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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