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8:00 PM ET, March 21, 2017

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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Benny Johnson and two others suspended from Independent Journal Review, pending investigation into editorial standards  —  It was supposed to be Independent Journal Review's week to shine.  —  The upstart, millennial-focused news website, which has emerged as a favorite …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google updates ad policies giving more control over ad placement after UK backlash, creates new brand safety tools, and expands hate speech definitions  —  After U.K. criticism, company creates new brand safety tools  —  Google also adds refugees to class protected from hate speech
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
9th Circuit appeals court rejects FilmOn's bid for license to stream broadcast works without consent of copyright holders, reversing federal decision from 2015  —  The 9th Circuit has reversed a federal judge who concluded otherwise.  —  On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed …
Diane Haithman / Los Angeles Business Journal:
Filing: Los Angeles biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong increases stake in Tronc to hold within 1% of controlling shareholder Michael Ferro  —  L.A. biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has upped his stake in Los Angeles Times parent tronc Inc. to 24 percent, nearly overtaking majority …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter debuts Periscope Producer API in private beta, letting publishers stream from more devices and services  —  Twitter is about to make it much easier for media publishers to post live video broadcasts with the launch of a live video API tomorrow morning.
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Man accused of sending seizure-inducing tweet to journalist Kurt Eichenwald indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, with a hate-crime enhancement  —  The man accused of sending a seizure-inducing tweet to Dallas-based journalist Kurt Eichenwald has now been indicted in Dallas County.
American Press Institute:
Study by Media Insight Project: who shares an article on social media influences the reader more than who produces it  —  This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dutch telecom company Altice buys France-based video ad tech startup Teads for $307M  —  “Convergence of telecoms content, and advertising is at the core of our business," says Altice CEO Michel Combes.  —  European cable and telecom giant Altice, which previously acquired Cablevision Systems …
Sami Main / Adweek:
The co-founders of Mental Floss, Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, are leaving to develop podcasts at HowStuffWorks  —  Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur are moving on  —  Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur started Mental Floss as a campus magazine at Duke University in 2001 …
Discussion: @erikaberlin and Media Wire Daily
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
MGM Television announces it will develop and produce original shows for Snapchat Discover; no launch date set  —  Opening up new possibilities for social video  —  After spending the past year making deals with almost every major TV media company to produce original series for Snapchat …
Discussion: The Wrap
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Profile: former Obama WH staffers' Crooked Media, with four podcasts aiming to counter Trump, including “Pod Save America,” which boasts 1.4M downloads/episode  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — The cultural-political revolution of the Nixon era was neither televised nor sponsored.
Discussion: @jonlovett
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast reporter Nico Hines apologizes for story about Olympic athletes using Grindr, posted and retracted seven months ago, returns as senior editor  —  Seven months ago, The Daily Beast ran a story of mine that never should have been conceived, written, or published.  For that, I am deeply sorry.
 
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Twitter nixed 636k+ accounts between mid-2015 and end of 2016 in its effort to tackle extremism
Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
BBC is failing in its duty to be impartial about Brexit, say 76 conservative parliamentarians in a letter to senior BBC executives
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Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
The AP and RCFP are appealing a recently rejected lawsuit demanding more details about when an FBI agent impersonated a journalist
Discussion: @rcfp
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Association of Independents in Radio study: how 16 producers embedded with 15 public media orgs covered underserved communities via Localore's Finding America
Discussion: MediaShift
WWD:
Source: American Media Inc. to lay off about 100 people from US Weekly early next week after its acquisition of the publication
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: FBI's Russian-influence probe includes a look at the role played by far-right news sites during Trump campaign
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Fox News analyst Napolitano suspended indefinitely after his unverified claims that British spies wiretapped Trump at behest of Obama