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8:05 AM ET, March 2, 2019

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: CNN head Jeff Zucker expected to expand his portfolio to lead AT&T's Turner Sports as part of AT&T's restructuring of WarnerMedia  —  Jeff Zucker, the leader of cable-news outlet CNN, is about to add sports to his portfolio, giving him expanded oversight of more of the most valuable content …
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: HBO CEO and Chairman Richard Plepler tells staff he is leaving the company, nine months after AT&T's acquisition of HBO parent Time Warner
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Dennis Publishing, the UK-based owner of The Week, has acquired 99-year-old Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc.; Kiplinger's COO will become its CEO  —  Dennis Publishing, the U.K.-based owner of The Week, has acquired 99-year-old Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Discussion: Adweek and New York Post
Tom Jones / Poynter:
A look back at The Rocky Mountain News, the Pulitzer-winning paper that closed 10 years ago, and how Denver fell from having 500+ journalists to fewer than 80  —  Early in 2008, John Temple was excited about the 150th anniversary of his newspaper.  The publisher, president and editor …
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Profile of sports news site Deadspin, which claims 14M monthly visitors on average in 2018, up 18% YoY, as it has evolved into a progressive voice in sports  —  Megan Greenwell, editor in chief of the website Deadspin, stood in front of a giant projection screen one night late last year …
Discussion: @dcwoodruff and @robert_hiltz
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Judge throws out defamation suit against NYT by a professor known for defending genetically modified food, citing “fair report” privilege and public records law  —  A University of Florida horticulture professor known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods lost …
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / Vanity Fair:
Inside Facebook's content policy team, which is made up of several dozen Facebook engineers, lawyers, and PR people who decide what users can post  —  The company blew it on privacy and fake news.  Can it do better against trolls and racists?  An exclusive embed with Facebook's shadow government.
Amber A'Lee Frost / Columbia Journalism Review:
A socialist makes a case for reading Financial Times rather than The New York Times, because FT focuses on the world as it is: a battle of economic interests  —  Every morning that I'm not hungover, I wake up around 8am, because that is when my two cats start howling for breakfast.
Discussion: @emilybell
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
Amazon removes at least three anti-vaccination documentaries from Prime Video hours after Rep. Schiff sent letter to Bezos regarding anti-vaccine misinformation  —  Amazon appears to have removed anti-vaccination documentaries from search results on Amazon Prime Video today …
MediaPost:
Report: New York Media, parent of New York Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, and more, has decided against seeking a buyer after reviewing its options  —  New York Media, the parent company of New York Magazine, decided against seeking a buyer after reviewing its strategic options, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
 
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources say Instagram is paying some IGTV creators, but some big influencers stay away due to obstacles like discoverability, monetization, and vertical format
James Walker / Press Gazette:
EU commissioners say Facebook's, Google's, and Twitter's reports on their fight against disinformation don't give enough information on their results
Discussion: Reuters and Techdirt
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Calum Muirhead / Proactiveinvestors United …:
Media group Future, owner of Tom's Hardware, Techradar, and others, acquires Mobile Nations, which owns Android Central, Windows Central, and others, for $120M
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Samantha Conti / WWD:
Holly Shackleton has been named editor-in-chief of Vogue International, replacing Justine Bellavita
Jem Aswad / Variety:
RIAA: US revenue for recorded music grew 12% in 2018 to $9.8B largely due to a 30% surge in streaming revenue; subscriptions to services like Spotify topped 50M
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA

Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues

Micah Lee / micahflee:
A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more
 
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