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12:00 PM ET, March 27, 2018

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress “within a matter of weeks”  —  Zuckerberg says he's open to testifying before Congress  —  After repeated calls for him to do so, Mark Zuckerberg has decided he will testify before Congress.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman invites top Facebook, Google, and Twitter execs to an April 10 hearing on the “future of data privacy and social media”  —  A panel of Senate lawmakers aims to grill the top executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter next month …
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
FTC says it has an open non-public probe into Facebook's privacy practices; a violation of consent decree signed in 2011 could carry a penalty of $40K/violation
BuzzFeed:
The FBI has a report written by ex-British agent Christopher Steele claiming that RT founder Mikhail Lesin's death was not an accident and that he was killed  —  The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned …
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
Heath Freeman, the 37-year-old president of Alden Global Capital, the firm which recently purchased the Boston Herald, is the Gordon Gekko of newspapers  —  The reality is even worse: This raider sinks decimated newsrooms' revenue into bad investments.  —  Heath Freeman, the 37-year-old …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
American Media Inc., publisher of The National Enquirer, has created a ~100 page magazine devoted to fawning coverage of Trump ally Prince Mohammed bin Salman  —  A nearly 100-page magazine published by Donald Trump's allies at American Media Inc. is providing a different kind of celebrity gossip …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Turner Sports is launching Bleacher Report Live, a sports streaming service carrying thousands of live sporting events, in April; pricing to be announced  —  ‘Queer Eye’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix March 26, 2018  —  Get the Magazine  —  The most trusted provider of news and information to the entertainment industry.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is frustrating the traditional Hollywood studios by poaching their talent and driving up pay, offering $400K for publicist roles alone  —  Streaming service rewrites pay rules, aided by soaring growth  —  Netflix Inc. has turned heads in Hollywood by spending billions …
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Politico unveils its redesigned website, which has seen 30% YoY growth in traffic and averages 26M+ uniques a month  —  The new site launches today  —  When Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown returned to the prominent American political journalism outlet as editor in 2016, redesigning Politico.com was near the top of her “to-do list.”
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Sources: publishers express concern at GroupM request to sign data protection contract that could force them to share audience data with agency group  —  GroupM wants publishers to sign a new data protection contract that could force them to share control of their audience data with the agency group …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Aaron Rich, brother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, files lawsuit against The Washington Times and number of others for spreading conspiracy theories  —  This is why the Seth Rich conspiracy won't disappear  —  The brother of Seth Rich, the slain Democratic National Committee staffer whose …
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
New York Times' advertising chief talks about Surfacing, an ongoing special editorial project on subcultures that is underwritten by a commercial partner  —  The New York Times had a wish list.  It wanted coverage of the emerging human subcultures that young journalists can be so adept at spotting …
Washington Post:
Roy Moore accuser's attorney says he was offered $10K and introduction to Steve Bannon, then head of Breitbart, in exchange for dropping, discrediting accuser  —  BIRMINGHAM — Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request.
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media says it has appointed Dominique Delport as its chief revenue officer and president of international
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Reuters:
Egypt has deported The Times journalist Bel Trew ahead of presidential election; the British paper claims the move was to intimidate media and suppress coverage
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Preliminary ratings from Nielsen show that CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Stormy Daniels drew the show's highest ratings in 10 years
 

 
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
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Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
In its annual report, Apple warns of future products maybe never being as profitable as its iPhone business, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI tools' safety risks
 
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