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1:45 AM ET, March 24, 2017

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Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed:
Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations requiring that ISPs ask before sharing customer data  —  The Senate voted Thursday to make it easier for internet service providers to share sensitive information about their customers, a first step in overturning landmark privacy rules …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a bitter feud has emerged between Patrick Soon-Shiong and Michael Ferro as they compete for larger stakes in Tronc  —  Ousted director Patrick Soon-Shiong adds to stake in Los Angeles Times publisher, setting up for showdown with its biggest shareholder and chairman Michael Ferro
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Jeff Gammage / Philly.com:
Philadelphia Media Network guild members vote down contract that would have ended seniority protections in the event of a layoff  —  Journalists and other union members at the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com have decisively rejected a contract offer that would have provided solid …
James Cook / Business Insider:
Filing: SoundCloud raises $70M in debt funding to build a “financially sustainable platform”, following a $100M raise in June 2016  —  Music streaming service SoundCloud has raised $70 million (£56 million) in debt funding, according to documents filed with Companies House in the UK.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter confirms it is considering paid TweetDeck subscription service with new features including analytics and breaking news alerts for brands and news orgs  —  New analytics inside TweetDeck  —  Twitter is considering offering a paid subscription to power users, including brands and news organizations, The Verge has confirmed.
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Judge approves class action settlement that will see The Hollywood Reporter pay out $900K for misclassifying freelancers  —  Over three years after The Hollywood Reporter was accused of playing fast and loose with how it classified contributors to get out of paying benefits and more …
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The Hollywood Reporter retracts post saying Trump organization sent cease-and-desist letter to teen behind cat website  —  “The letter did not come from us,” says a top attorney for the president's company as significant doubts are raised about the authenticity of the communication.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Chartbeat and CrowdTangle expand Offsite Social globally, offering publishers more data on social engagement and distribution  —  Chartbeat and CrowdTangle today announced a major expansion of a tool for measuring how stories are performing on social platforms.
Paola Nalvarte / Journalism in the Americas:
Miroslava Breach Velducea, 54, shot and killed leaving her home in Chihuahua, becoming the third Mexican journalist killed this month  —  Journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, 54, was killed on the morning of March 23 after receiving at least four shots to the head.
 
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
Sources: American Media Inc. cuts about 40 jobs at Us Weekly, including Editor in Chief Michael Steele and Editorial Director Jaimee Zanzinger
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Instagram says it will start blurring “Sensitive Content” that doesn't merit removal and opens two-factor authentication to all
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media moves into scripted content with short-form and original programming coming to its US website
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Medium launches memberships for $5/month, directing early revenue to writers, eventually giving access to exclusive stories and an offline reading list
Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
Media Matters founder David Brock, 54, is recovering from a heart attack he suffered Tuesday in Washington
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions

Ming-Chi Kuo:
Sources: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has “fallen sharply beyond expectations”
 
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