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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, where Apple will set and offer its own bundles  —  Apple's TV plans, explained.  (Spoiler: Apple isn't taking on Netflix yet.)  —  After years of circling the TV business …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox's Jeanine Pirro to be off the air for a second week; a source says she was suspended for two weeks and that she will return on March 30  —  New York (CNN Business)Jeanine Pirro's weekend show on Fox News, “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” will be pre-empted for a second straight week, according to the network's schedule.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Interview with former News Corp SVP Joseph Azam, who says he quit in 2017 over the Murdoch approach to Muslims, immigrants, and race at Fox and other outlets
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services  —  Comcast's latest bundle isn't a cable TV service, exactly, since it's aimed at the increasing number of subscribers who only have internet.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: expected layoffs begin after the close of the Disney-Fox deal, with about two dozen senior-level executives at 20th Century Fox affected so far  —  Anticipated layoffs have begun at Fox, following the storied studio's sale to Walt Disney Co. earlier this week.
Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing:
Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%, while mobile time-spent in the US rose from 21% to 24% YoY  —  Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
A reporter for a pro-life media organization says he was forced to resign after criticizing a far-right activist who was “verbally tormenting” a CNN reporter  —  Zachary Petrizzo, a writer for the pro-life media organization Live Action, says he was forced to resign after he tweeted …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Study: of all Netflix releases in the US in 2018, 51% were originals, more than double the 25% reported in 2016  —  Illustrating the strategy Netflix executives have long articulated — and pointing to a wider gap between the company and its rivals — a new report shows that for the first …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Almost 8 out of 10 GOP voters who watch Fox News believe Trump is the best President in US history, as the network presents an “alternative reality”  —  A new survey of the network's watchers reveal the hard core of the Republican Party and how hopeless it is for Democrats to try and court them.
PolitiFact:
Politifact is partnering with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish for the network's 2020 election coverage  —  PolitiFact will partner with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish ahead of the 2020 presidential election.  —  PolitiFact is a fact-checking website owned …
 
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Slovakia's Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak continues his work on organized crime in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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James Walker / Press Gazette:
At a UN Human Rights Council session, about 60 media groups support a draft document on the safety and independence of journalists
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Report: for the first time, music streaming accounted for more than half, at 54%, of UK record label income in the UK in 2018 as it hit £468M, up 35% YoY
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Sources: Netflix is upping its “marketing partnership” efforts, which include licensing characters and doing product placements in its shows
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The NZ shooting video was harder to block on Facebook than official terrorist propaganda videos because the latter aren't rebroadcast or reshared widely
 

 
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Pocketpair says Nintendo and Pokémon Company are seeking ~$65K in damages in their lawsuit and lists the three patents the studio is accused of infringing

Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday
 
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