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11:15 AM ET, March 25, 2019

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Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:

Inside the Justice Department's press room on Friday, as reporters on the justice beat awaited the Mueller Report — When Sadie Gurman, a Justice Department correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, woke up on Friday, she had a nervous energy. Like many journalists …

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Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for HBO, Showtime, and Starz subscriptions, and will monetize its own content; premium news service will cost $9.99/mo — For the first time, Apple will present its Services vision to the public at tomorrow's March 25 event.

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:

Sources: Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge — - Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge, three people familiar with the situation say. — The digital media business has been rife with speculation about mergers between venture-funded digital media outlets …

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Phil Helsel / NBC News:

A driver working with NBC News in Syria was killed Saturday after a device exploded close to a group of the network's journalists — “We are thankful that NBC employees escaped unharmed, however one of the local drivers working with them was tragically killed," Noah Oppenheim said.

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

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Robert Peck / Wired:

A moderator for the /r/aww, a cute animal subreddit with 19M subscribers, details his processes for identifying and banning bots, trolls, and propagandists — THESE ARE THE rules: Users of /r/aww aren't allowed to post about dogs that are dying, or sick, or just back from the vet.

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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

A list of some of the potential contenders for the Pulitzers, scheduled for April 15, including WaPo's Jamal Khashoggi coverage and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood — Journalists prepare their brackets for April Madness. — April madness is around the corner, which means that newsrooms around …

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Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter:

Q&A with the director of French fact-checking service CheckNews, about tripling its audience to 11M page views in Dec. 2018, amidst Yellow Vest protests — In June, the fact-checking community was introduced to CheckNews.fr. — The project, which debuted at the fifth annual Global Fact-Checking Summit …

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