Mediagazer: Apple announces a special event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater where it is expected to announce a streaming video service and a news subscription service (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

4:25 PM ET, March 11, 2019

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Madeline Peltz / Media Matters for America:

Clips surface of Tucker Carlson's calls into Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show from 2006 to 2011, where he often spoke in vulgar terms about women and teen sex — During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he “love[s]” the idea of young girls sexually experimenting …

Benjamin Goggin / Business Insider:

Media Matters says it plans to release more recordings of Fox News host Tucker Carlson within the next day, allegedly containing comments on race and ethnicity — - New recordings of Fox News host Tucker Carlson will reportedly show his views on “race and ethnicity,” following recordings released Sunday …

Discussion: @oliverdarcy, The Wrap and Washington Post

Brian Stelter / CNN:
Tucker Carlson has refused to apologize for his past comments on Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show, describing them as “naughty”

Discussion: @tomgara, @mathewi, @jamilsmith, @connieschultz, The Wrap, Washington Post, @colinhanks, @prison4trump, @karaswisher, @brianstelter and The Week

David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:

Sources: BuzzFeed News employees are growing sceptical of the company's business model, with the future of shows like AM to DM dependent on outside platforms — In retrospect, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's March 2014 memo to staff, titled “Is History Repeating Itself?” reads like an extended challenge …

Discussion: @daviduberti, @janebsinger, @andreagonram, @mathewi, @therealjimrich, @tommorton, @emilybell and @wblau

Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

At SXSW, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff said the company plans to experiment with paywalls; BuzzFeed CEO Peretti said company made $3M from Facebook video in Q4 2018 — Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti used appearances to lay out a path forward for the brands they founded and lead.

Discussion: Austin American-Statesman and @rosental

Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

Speaking at SXSW, CNN President Jeff Zucker said he believed DOJ's AT&T lawsuit was politically motivated and described Fox News as a “propaganda network” — At SXSW on Saturday, Zucker also said that Fox News is a “propaganda network” that “has done a lot of damage to the political discourse in this country.”

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:

Jeff Zucker defended the hiring of Sarah Isgur and said that other reporters made the assumption that she would oversee 2020 coverage due to their own “biases” — 'The fact is they work at a place that has done tremendous damage to this country,' the CNN president said at SXSW.

Discussion: Variety and Mediaite

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

NBCUniversal will launch NBC News Now, a free streaming service, in May, starting with 8 hours of programming, including live updates at the top of every hour — NBC News already pumps out stories and headlines via broadcast and cable TV. Soon it will do so on a sustained basis via streaming video.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, FierceVideo, Engadget and TVNewser

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

Fox News says it strongly condemns Jeanine Pirro's remarks about Rep Ilhan Omar, after she said Omar may not support the US Constitution because she's a Muslim — Fox News strongly condemned Jeanine Pirro late Sunday evening after the network host suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar may not fully support …

Discussion: CNN, @ilhanmn, Politico, The Week, Mediaite, @yashar, @nycjim, @sgw94, @wjcarter, @brianstelter and @haaretzcom

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

New York Magazine's parent company New York Media lays off 16 full-time employees, with 16 part-time and freelance staffers also being let go — New York Media has laid off 16 full-time staff members, which is roughly 5 percent of all employees in a restructuring.

Discussion: @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @apbenven, @bradfordpearson, @andreagonram, @michellemalkin, @levinejonathan, @parkermolloy, @yashar, @ashleyfeinberg and @bobbybigwheel

Andrew Heyward / Cronkite News Lab:

Following the printed press and under pressure to deliver more hours of news, local TV newsrooms are starting to experiment with collaborative journalism too — Traditionally, the TV news claim to authority has been based on three powerful myths: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.

Simon Romero / New York Times:

A profile of La Gordiloca, a reporter in Laredo, Texas, who uses Facebook to deliver news and scoops to her 119,000 followers in profanity-laced Spanglish — LAREDO, Tex. — Priscilla Villarreal roams the streets of Laredo in an old Dodge pickup, scrambling to drug busts and murder scenes …

Discussion: @nytnational, @nytimes, @stevesaldivar, @karaswisher and @jenn_swann

John Herrman / New York Times:

How TikTok changed the social media landscape by discarding many assumptions made by rivals, such as the primacy of individual connections and friend networks — TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you're avoiding it. — Hello, person who is, statistically speaking …

Discussion: The Guardian, @lucieronfaut, @nytimes, @pardesoteric, @iansherr, @jwherrman, @aexm, @amandalitman, @thisisleahl, @sannuvola, @hautepop, @sushantsin and @frankpasquale

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces a special event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater where it is expected to announce a streaming video service and a news subscription service

Discussion: Thurrott, @apollozac, @jeffbenjam and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »

Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Companies trying to compete with Netflix in the streaming space will face financial pressure for years due to costs and uncertainty of streaming business model

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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
ESPN launches new show Daily Wager, dedicated to coverage of sports betting, following a Supreme Court ruling in May which legalized the trade

Discussion: @joefortenbaugh

Tom Ley / Deadspin:
Barstool Sports deleted 60,368 tweets, over 70% of the account's total tweets, and over 1,000 posts on Instagram on March 7

Discussion: @fark

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg Television has named Rachel Wehrspann as its head of TV in the United States and promoted Emily Yamamoto to the same role for Asia-Pacific

Discussion: TVNewser

Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
More than 200 publishing and music organizations, including Reuters and the Press Association, call for adoption of the new EU copyright directive

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Alex Pareene / Columbia Journalism Review:
Motives for the rise of “behind the story” stories in media range from pre-emptive defences against lawsuits to efforts to educate public to simply marketing

Discussion: @tomzellerjr, @pareene, @annehelen, @ravisomaiya and @gordonrussell1

Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
In a 4-3 ruling Maryland's Court of Appeals says Adnan Syed, subject of the Serial podcast series that raised doubts about his guilt, should not get a new trial

Discussion: Vox, @robinsonhistory, @nytimesarts, @ivanthek, @michaeldavsmith, @malieckal, Mashable and Slate

Matthew Shaer / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of John Biewen, a veteran NPR reporter whose 14-part series on the history of systemic racism in the US, Seeing White, was nominated for a Peabody Award

Discussion: @dukeu, @cdsduke, @cjr, @darrelfrost, @matthewshaer, @sceneonradio and @nicktheandersen

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
To get an idea of Netflix viewing figures, the BBC ran a survey, which found that 7M Britons had watched The Crown in 17 months

Discussion: @s8mb and @adrianhon

John F. Harris / Politico:
Despite frequent attacks on media, Trump arguably has the most frequent, informal, and sustained personal interactions with reporters and commentators since JFK

Discussion: New York Times, @jayrosen_nyu, @peterbakernyt, @jnicholsonindc and Recode

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Anthropic's Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for Gaming push

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