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9:30 AM ET, February 9, 2016

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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom extends partnership with Snapchat, signs multi-year deal to sell advertising on Snapchat's behalf  —  Viacom To Sell Snapchat Ads In Multiyear Deal  —  Media giant to sell ads throughout video messaging app  —  Investors have been fretting about Viacom Inc. 's cable TV fortunes …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Viacom Q1 revenue dropped 6% to nearly $3.2B, 10% drop in profits overall  —  Viacom, in Midst of Leadership Shake-Up, Reports Drop in Profit  —  Viacom, the media group that includes MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon cable television networks and the Paramount film studio …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post builds Bandito detection tool that monitors alternate versions of stories set by editors, then automatically serves the most popular  —  Washington Post's ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content For Clicks  —  System promotes version of a story with most popular headline, images
Discussion: @alexgoldmark, @ahmed and @wsjcmo
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Keith Moyer, new editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, says Adelson family assures him it will stay out of news gathering process  —  Big plans for Adelson's Vegas paper  —  Talking about plunging into the fire.  —  For the past six years, J. Keith Moyer, a former newspaper publisher and editor …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Users streamed 315M minutes of the Super Bowl from CBS and NFL, an average of 1.4M people per minute, up from from 213 minutes, 800K/min in 2015  —  More People Streamed the Super Bowl Than Ever Before.  Here Are the Numbers:  —  Late last night, CBS announced it had streamed the Super Bowl to a …
The Boston Globe:
Boston Courant, a twenty-year-old weekly newspaper, to shut down after losing wrongful termination lawsuit  —  Print-only Boston Courant publishes last edition  —  The Boston Courant, a weekly newspaper that covered some of Boston's most prosperous neighborhoods for 20 years …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror reveals editor-in-chiefs for 11 regions following Local World takeover  — William Turvill's blog -  —  Trinity Mirror has created six new editor-in-chief positions as part of a restructure following its Local World takeover.  —  The publisher has divided its business into 11 regions …
Discussion: Prolific North and Street Fight
Kate Palmer / Telegraph:
Guardian Media Group and Apax owned Ascential prices shares at 200p, floats at about a £800M valuation  —  Guardian-owned magazine business Ascential floats for £800m  —  Ascential, which owns titles Retail Week and the Health Service Journal, makes stock market debut today
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Profile of the FCC's general counsel Jonathan Sallet, helping to create and defend rules shaping TV and the Internet  —  Net Neutrality Again Puts F.C.C. General Counsel at Center Stage  —  WASHINGTON — Every day for one month last fall, Jonathan Sallet, the general counsel …
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Al Jazeera America to stop updating website Feb. 26, TV operations continue until April 12  —  Al Jazeera America to shutter digital operations by the end of the month  —  POLITICO P.M. Media Pro: How many watched Super Bowl 50?  —New York mag gets a new app—Jake Tapper on 'fact checking'What are they thinking?
Discussion: bookforum.com and @petersterne
 
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise releases letter sent to FT journalist to dispute ‘ad threat’ claim
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
En Español: The New York Times launches a Spanish-language news site aiming south of the border
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The case of five missing booksellers in Hong Kong puts spotlight on publishing niche that creates illicit books critical of Beijing
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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