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Associated Press:
Father of Florida shooting survivor admits altering an email from CNN that was sent to other news outlets amid controversy but says it wasn't on purpose — Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger-pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Infowars says YouTube gave it a second strike for Florida shooting videos, says it can't post new content for 2 weeks; 3 strikes in 3 months would close account — Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube. — The channel said it received an alert …
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Axios, National Review, @willsommer, Jezebel, @willsommer, @willsommer, The Daily Beast, Mashable, Gizmodo and @willsommer
Quinn Norton / The Atlantic:
How social media created and attacked a version of myself that lacked context after The New York Times hired, and then fired, me for its editorial board — The day before Valentine's Day, social media created a bizarro-world version of me. I have seen strange ideas about me online before …
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emptywheel, Mediaite, @jayrosen_nyu, @vivian, @ckummer, @astepanovich, @aglasgowgirl, @kevin2kelly, @nickstatt, @jason_pontin, @aherman2006, @katierogers, @_cingraham, @timothynoah1, @sjgrunewald, @willsommer, @jessesingal, @lesterfreamon, @futureboy, @drewbeck, @digidave, @alexnazaryan and @bafeldman
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Twitter DMs show Trump confidant Roger Stone and WikiLeaks communicated directly in October and November 2016, contrary to their denials in 2017 — On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Mediaite, @natashabertrand, @kpoulsen and @neeratanden
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers are pivoting to subscriptions, as they did to video, but industry execs warn that reader revenue is a difficult business model to implement — Publishers are pivoting hard to subscriptions. In the past few months alone, publishers including CNN, The Atlantic and Wired have made moves …
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@digiday, @raju, @janebsinger, @lpolgreen, @heytimgriggs and @craigsilverman
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Little Things, a publisher with 12M Facebook followers that focused on feel-good news and videos, is shutting down, says algorithm changes cut traffic by 75%+ — - The digital publisher LittleThings is shutting down. — The company was one of a group of media company that had quickly amassed a big following on Facebook.
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Digiday, @pkafka, @ajs, @stevekovach, @justintrapp, @lmoses, @newyorkist and @lmoses
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook to launch Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3M three-month pilot program in the US to help metro papers boost digital subscription efforts — Facebook Journalism Project will announce today the launch of its Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million …
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Nieman Lab, Facebook Media, Adweek, Engadget, TechCrunch, @heytimgriggs, The Verge, @alexhern, @jamesrbuk, @mikeisaac, @ryanlawler, @rasmus_kleis, @newspaperwallah, @jimfriedlich, @lenfestinst, @underoak, @michellemanafy, @jason_w_white, @thewilderthings, @nathanbomey, @onecolleen and @nkulw, more at Techmeme »
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Comcast offers about £22B for Sky, a 16% premium on the offer from Murdoch's 21st Century Fox — US cable TV group outbids 21st Century Fox's existing offer for broadcasting group … Comcast is attempting to gatecrash Rupert Murdoch's takeover of Sky, submitting a rival offer …
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Cliff Kuang / Co.Design:
Knight study of 45M tweets examines how Asian Americans, African Americans, and feminists interact with media, with “hate-tweeting” often fueling sharing — Not only is hate-tweeting articles a real thing, it may be the dominant mode for how minorities talk about media coverage …
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Adweek, @fastcodesign, The Root, @dfreelon, Knight Foundation, @jdesmondharris, @ftrain, Digital Trends, @dfreelon and Informed and Engaged
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News wins appeal against TVEyes, a service that enables searching, watching, sharing of TV clips; ruling says TVEyes' product not justified as fair use — The 2nd Circuit rejects copyright fair use arguments made by the media monitoring service TVEyes.
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The Wrap, Radio & Television …, MediaPost, Multichannel News, The Daily Caller, Associated Press and TVNewser
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI — Chinese internet giant Tencent is continuing to put its money in India and in music streaming services after it agreed to lead a $115 million investment in India's Gaana.
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Livemint, The Economic Times and Yourstory, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Transcript of a Q&A with the New York Times' Editorial Page Editor James Bennet which happened during a meeting with NYT staffers in December — “The world needs this from us right now.” … James Bennet: So the op-ed page was created to do a bunch of different things.
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Editor & Publisher and Splinter
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT editorial-page editor James Bennet defends op-ed page controversy, saying it publishes a variety of voices; newsroom sources voice concern and embarrassment
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The New York Times is in talks with streaming services and cable channels about launching a weekly ~30-minute TV show — The New York Times has conquered the podcasting world with “The Daily.” Now it wants to crack television with a weekly news program. — The Times is seeking …
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The New York Observer, Deadline and Hollywood Reporter
Sonam Rai / Reuters:
Discovery Communications had a net loss of $1.14B in Q4, says it expects to close $14.6B acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive by end of Q1 2018 — (Reuters) - Discovery Communications Inc's (DISCA.O) revenue topped analysts' forecasts in the fourth quarter as the owner of Discovery Channel …
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NASDAQ.com and PR Newswire
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