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1:00 AM ET, April 4, 2016

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ICIJ The Panama Papers:
ICIJ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 100+ media orgs cooperate on investigation of Panama Papers, 11.5M leaked docs on offshore dealings of officials, celebrities, more  —  Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption  —  Files reveal the offshore holdings …
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Süddeutsche Zeitung / Süddeutsche.de:
How Süddeutsche Zeitung received and investigated with global media partners the 2.6TB of Panama Papers data  —  About the Panama Papers  —  Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
How Wirecutter's affiliate marketing strategy, which generated $150M in e-commerce last year, is being copied by publications like BuzzFeed and Hearst  —  How a Small Tech Site Found a New Way for Publishers to Get Paid  —  The Wirecutter generated $150 million in e-commerce in 2015
Court Stroud / Media Life Magazine:
iHeartMedia is $21B in debt, being taken to court by creditors, and likely to be broken up and sold in pieces  —  Coming, the collapse of radio's iHeartMedia  —  Industry giant is struggling under massive debt and losing gobs of money … At first glance, iHeartMedia looks …
Stephanie Hayes / The Atlantic:
Children and teens are tuning into podcasts but there are very few shows tailored to young audiences  —  Where Are All the Kidcasts?  —  “The guilt of a parent who puts the television on to pacify their children is one of the most powerful emotional forces in existence,” lamented Gimlet's Matt Lieber in a recent panel on podcasting.
Discussion: @mathewi
New York Magazine:
Andrew Sullivan Joins New York Magazine As Contributing Editor  —  New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that writer Andrew Sullivan is joining the magazine as a contributing editor covering politics and the larger culture.  He will write features throughout the year …
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Source: Facebook withdraws from bidding on digital rights to NFL Thursday night games, balks at traditional ad model preventing commercial-free live streams  —  Facebook Said to Back Off Bid to Stream NFL Thursday Games  —  Social media company turned off by commercials, London games
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Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
Profile of Peter Vecsey, nation's first sports columnist to specialize in the NBA, who now uses Twitter as his platform after retiring from NY Post in 2012  —  The Power and Polarity of Peter Vecsey  —  It was a late afternoon in early December 1997.  Peter Vecsey had an 8 pm deadline …
Jephie Bernard / Columbia Journalism Review:
Black Lives Matter: the movement, the organization, and how journalists get it wrong  —  Editor's Note: This post was produced as part of a graduate course on media writing and storytelling taught by the editors of Columbia Journalism Review.  —  Last month, The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb detailed …
Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:
Op-eds are increasingly becoming devoid of research and facts as local journalists are replaced with advocacy groups and public officials  —  Independent local opinion writing is essential—and endangered.  Can we redesign it for survival?  —  For some of us who grew up reading newspapers …
Agence France-Presse:
Maldives police arrest 16 independent journalists  —  Maldives police arrested 16 independent journalists on Sunday while breaking up a demonstration against an alleged crackdown on freedom of speech in the politically troubled nation, private media outlets reported.
Discussion: Associated Press
Alison Flood / Guardian:
VIDA: bylines of women see increase at many major publications; women of color, disabled women underrepresented  —  Female authors make inroads at major publications - survey  —  Bylines by women at the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic are among the ‘dramatic increases’ over the last year …
 
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Marc Herman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Benghazi journalist on the critical role of local stringers in getting Libyan news out to the Western world
Kylie Noble / Guardian:
Former Storyful journalists to launch not-for-profit news organization Right to Know for better transparency, access to information in Ireland
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Alex Spence / Politico:
Study: tech companies have power over media and communication that needs greater scrutiny
Tony Connelly / The Drum:
Red Bull Media House to provide Reuters subscribers with exclusive sport and lifestyle content
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From Techmeme:

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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