Mediagazer: Memo: NBC News will shift some employees to work on exploring streaming options for Today as the show continues digital expansion with plans to hire 30 staff (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Filing: Quibi asks CA court to end harassment from interactive media company Eko, which claims IP theft and says Quibi's “Turnstyle” feature infringes on its IP — Quibi says an interactive video sales company called Eko has “embarked on a campaign of threats and harassment.”

Discussion: The Streamable, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Multichannel News, Deadline, @thr, @jbflint, @asharma, Engadget, Bloomberg, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Sources: Disney+ executives are still struggling to define its brand identity, as several original series in development have been dropped in the past year — In his new role “getting everything right creatively,” the former CEO is likely to tackle the streaming service, which …

Discussion: The A.V. Club, Dark Horizons, The Playlist, @aaroncouch, @ashkan, Bleeding Cool and /Film

Discussion: Dark Horizons

Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:

As coronavirus affects how media tells and disseminates stories, its coverage decisions must avoid both scaremongering and complacency — On Friday, amid ever-rising fears about the spread of the coronavirus, President Trump traveled to Atlanta to visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Discussion: @cjr

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Memo: NBC News will shift some employees to work on exploring streaming options for Today as the show continues digital expansion with plans to hire 30 staff — NBC News is considering whether its venerable “Today” morning show might also serve as an all-day streaming-video outlet.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Streamable and @bristei

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

WaPo launches Drop Me The Link, a thrice-weekly politics newsletter with a single link to a story alongside context, aimed at younger or first-time voters — The Washington Post knows the news can feel like a bit much these days. — Even before the coronavirus broke out and the stock market went …

Discussion: Digiday, Washington Post and @niemanlab

Tom Kludt / Vanity Fair:

Coverage by pro-Sanders media, like Chapo Trap House, of Biden's fitness for office reveals both its reach and its limitations in shaping a broader media story — The Sanders camp is making a final swarming social media attack on Joe Biden, as Cenk, Taibbi, and Chapo guys and an army …

Discussion: @tomkludt, Politico, Vox, The Intercept and New York Post

Tim Warsinskey / Plain Dealer:

Cleveland's The Plain Dealer says it is laying off another 22 newsroom employees, of which 18 are unionized, leaving 77 journalists covering Northeast Ohio — CLEVELAND, Ohio — For more than a decade, the newspaper industry has faced a grueling uphill climb to remain financially viable in a digital age.

Discussion: American Press Institute, Adweek, Scene and Heard, @livy70, @emilybell, @riegerreport, @jbenton, Poynter, @charlesornstein, @fakedavelucas, @chadlivengood, @lvstories, @dcbigjohn, @tnaverabiz1st, @andrewjtobias and @racheldissell

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Vox Media launches Concert Local, a local ad network pooling local news sites' ad inventories and funded, source says, by $1M+ from the Google News Initiative — Vox Media, the parent company to brands like The Verge, SB Nation, GrubStreet and more, is partnering with Google to create …

Discussion: @clockwerks, @hilmonstah, @clockwerks, @bankoff and @simonowens

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

National Magazine Awards, which were scheduled for March 12, have been postponed due to coronavirus; a new date has yet to be decided — The National Magazine Awards scheduled for March 12 are being postponed due to the coronavirus. — For the first time in the 55-year history …

Discussion: WWD

Ronan Shields / Adweek:

AT&T's ad-tech unit Xandr takes a minority stake in Infosum, a first-party data platform, as the industry shifts away from third-party cookies — Investment heats up competition in data onboarding sector — AT&T's ad-tech arm Xandr has taken a minority stake in InfoSum …

Discussion: Video Ad News

David Smith / The Guardian:

Interview with Chris Wallace on cable news' contribution to a divided US, why he was horrified by Acosta's retort to Trump, lessons for 2020 election, more — The anchor doesn't want to talk about Ingraham, Hannity and Carlson - but he does think Jim Acosta of CNN should not be lecturing the president

Dan Gillmor:

In a time of dwindling resources for journalism, the need for a major journalistic collaboration on issues like COVID-19 has never been more obvious — It's Sunday, March 8. Two of America's best journalism organizations are featuring deep looks into the confusion, incompetence …

Discussion: @dangillmor, @hbcompass, @stevenbeschloss, @fabiochiusi, @sulliview, @joseiswriting, @jbenton, @leszaitz and @jamesfallows