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6:10 AM ET, March 20, 2016

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in compensatory damages from Gawker, finds Denton and Daulerio personally liable; Gawker hints at appeal  —  $115 million verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker  —  Hogan's lawyer: Gawker editor was “playing God” with my client's privacy.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Nick Denton had expected he would need to appeal Hogan case, has begun preparing case  —  Florida Jury Hands Hulk Hogan a $115 Million Victory in the Gawker Sex Tape Trial  —  Round one in the Hulk Hogan/Gawker sex tape trial goes to the wrestler: A Florida jury found decisively in his favor …
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Legal experts see damages award for Hulk Hogan likely to be reduced, and say verdict will have limited effect on press freedoms even if it survives appeal  —  Legal Experts See Little Effect on News Media From Hulk Hogan Verdict  —  Legal scholars were as startled as anyone by the scale …
Discussion: The Wrap
Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Unsealed records in Hogan sex-tape case suggest witnesses may have lied  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Court records unsealed Friday in former wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker contradict his sworn deposition in the case and that of several other key witnesses.
Discussion: @emilyesmith
Beau Yarbrough / L.A. Daily News:
Orange County Register owner will ask bankruptcy judge to OK sale to Digital First Media for $52.3M after Tribune was blocked from bid  —  Attorney: Freedom Communications to sell to Digital First Media  —  Freedom Communications, the owner of the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump not asked about alleged journalist assault by top aide in more than a dozen TV interviews  —  No One's Asking Donald Trump About Campaign Manager Accused Of Grabbing Reporter  —  The Republican front-runner has done more than a dozen TV interviews without getting a single question about his top aide, Corey Lewandowski.
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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Staffers at networks wrestle with Trump's unprecedented press restrictions and TV's role in his rise
Maxwell Williams / GOOD Magazine:
The Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed on working with strong personalities, government, transparency, and accountability  —  Betsy Reed  —  The editor putting big business and government under the microscope  —  In a bustling restaurant overlooking Union Square, Betsy Reed looks up cautiously.
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Viacom and comScore reach multi-year cross-platform measurement deal  —  Viacom Inks Big Cross-Platform Deal With comScore  —  Making good on its effort to push for more non-Nielsen based advertising deals, Viacom has made an agreement with up-and-coming media measurement firm comScore, in an extensive multi-year cross-platform deal.
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Sources: with only 10% to 15% of Tumblr's advertising inventory used, Yahoo is considering letting Facebook sell ads within the Tumblr mobile app  —  Yahoo, Facebook in Ad Partnership Talks Over Tumblr  —  Yahoo is considering letting Facebook sell ads within the Tumblr mobile app …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Honduran journalist and director of Radio Globo and Globo TV sentenced to 10 years in prison for defamation  —  Honduran journalist sentenced to 10 years in prison for defamation  —  Honduran authorities should drop all criminal charges against journalist David Romero Ellner, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Discussion: Associated Press and telesurtv.net
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Financial Times launches Lantern, a newsroom analytics tool to make audience data accessible to journalists  —  The FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable for its newsroom  —  The Financial Times on Thursday launched a new newsroom analytics tool that's meant …
Associated Press:
Analysis: requests for public records under Freedom of Information Act to Obama administration last year returned censored files or nothing 77% of the time  —  US gov't sets record for failures to find files when asked  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a record for the number …
Discussion: @tbridis and The Huffington Post
 
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Mariah Stewart / The Huffington Post:
Videographer Mary Moore convicted of failure to comply with police order in Ferguson, gets suspended sentence
Discussion: Business Insider
Dune Lawrence / Bloomberg Business:
How a businessman now indicted for securities fraud trolled a Bloomberg journalist for years via email, Twitter, and a legitimate looking blog, TheBlot
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ABC and Warner Bros. TV Group stacking rights deal will let viewers binge on entire current seasons instead of only last five episodes
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Comic-Con to release free, beta of subscription video service May 7, will go paid in June
Discussion: iDigitalTimes.com
Mona Lalwani / Engadget:
Interview with Giphy team on resurgence of GIFs, importance of the loop, and Giphy Studios, its new original content studio in LA
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Sony Pictures Television shifting to an international-first model, with sales to UK's Channel 4 and ITV and Canada's Shaw before selling shows US channels
Amy X. Wang / Quartz:
Click fraud moves into music streaming, draining money from companies and artists, and it's almost impossible to detect
Discussion: Patently Apple
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
SoundCloud signs licensing deal with Sony Music, the last of three major labels, paving way for launch of paid subscription service later this year