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6:50 PM ET, March 12, 2017

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Washington Post:
Records show no fixed address for Steve Bannon as he built Breitbart; 2013 salary was listed as $750K on rental application, plus $270K from Arc Entertainment  —  In the three years before he became Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook will stream at least 22 live MLS matches in 2017 in English, through deal with MLS and Univision Deportes  —  As competition in the live streaming space heats up, Facebook has scored a significant deal that will allow it to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer matches on its social network.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio reporter Jon Decker, a member of WHCA board, confronts Gateway Pundit staffer Lucian Wintrich in WH press room; Wintrich claims he was assaulted  —  A Fox News Radio correspondent confronted in the White House briefing room the White House reporter for a website that traffics …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The presence of new partisan media organizations in the White House press pool raises questions about pool's reliability  —  In an age of partisan media, the lines between “partisan” and “media” can sometimes blur.  —  Case in point: The pool reporter covering Vice President Pence on Thursday …
Alleen Brown / The Intercept:
Hard-to-verify “alt” government social media accounts let dissenting federal employees share truth, but necessary anonymity can fuel profiteering by scammers  —  In early November, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, a career scientist working for the federal Interior …
Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Profile of Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell, founders of satirical feminist site Reductress, which launched in 2013 and now draws about 1M unique views a month  —  CULTURE REDUCTRESS MEDIA JOURNALISM SATIRE  —  The internet's best satire site is run by two 30-somethings in an office the size of a walk-in closet.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Lies aided by right-wing hyperpartisan media outlets require watchdogging, fact-checking, and self-examination by mainstream newsrooms  —  To save Tinkerbell, all you had to do was clap your hands and really, really believe in fairies.  —  To send a conspiracy theory on its vicious way around the world …
Los Angeles Times:
The $1B deal to sell Dick Clark Productions, producers of Golden Globes and more, to China's Dalian Wanda Group falls through  —  Ryan Seacrest hosts “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2016.”  (Ida Mae Astute / ABC)  —  The highly publicized $1-billion deal …
Penelope Green / New York Times:
Profile of Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, which has been redesigned for its April issue and is now called AD  —  One windy morning in February, Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, was showing off her magazine's renovation: a near-gut job, as they say in the trade.
Discussion: @nytrealestate
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Profile of Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a friend of Trump who has emerged over the past few weeks as one of the president's most prominent unofficial spokesmen  —  Chris Ruddy is the Zelig of the Trump administration.  —  He's on CNN, blasting the White House chief of staff.
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Arctic Times Project, a nonprofit covering global warming in the Arctic, publishing stories in existing outlets instead of launching its own
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Following buyouts, Postmedia to lay off 54 staffers at Vancouver Sun and Province around April 8, according to memo to staff
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
TheStreet misses estimates, reporting Q4 loss of $11.6M, with revenue of $15.9M, down from $17M the prior year
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Political journalism, ripe for groupthink, produced a failure of the “wisdom of crowds” during the election, which led to an underestimation of Trump's chances
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions

 
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