Mediagazer: News apps were absent from Apple's Watch presentation, but Yahoo and Circa are building them (Myles Tanzer/BuzzFeed)

6:55 PM ET, September 11, 2014

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Spin Media lays off 19, kills Vibe print edition — Spin Media Group eliminated 19 positions on Tuesday, C.E.O. Stephen Blackwell told Capital in a phone interview. — Blackwell told Capital that Tuesday's “reduction in force” affected about 14 percent of the company's 127 staff members …

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Dan Shanoff / Nieman Lab:

Wearables could make the “glance” a new subatomic unit of news — Next year will be my twentieth in digital news. From the start, I had an underlying disposition that digital news consumers — sports or otherwise — wanted their content easily digestible: brief, formatted, convenient.

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Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:

News apps were absent from Apple's Watch presentation, but Yahoo and Circa are building them — The Future Of News On The Apple Watch Is In Yahoo's Hands For Now — Yahoo News Digest already works on the Apple Watch. — Stephen Lam / Reuters — During its two-hour keynote this week …

Discussion: Nieman Lab and VentureBeat

Ezequiel Minaya / Wall Street Journal:

Venezuela's Press Crackdown Stokes Growth of Online Media — Digital Alternatives Expand as Newspapers and Broadcasters Struggle — CARACAS, Venezuela—Angel Alayon's Prodavinci.com blog, with its serious political analysis, drew a few dozen readers when he started five years ago.

David Yi / WWD:

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

News Corp. C.E.O. touts newspaper improvements, tighter focus — News Corp. C.E.O. Robert Thomson is optimistic about improvements at the company's newspapers despite ongoing declines in advertising revenues. — In particular, Thomson said Wednesday at the 23rd Annual Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference …

David Lieberman / Deadline:

Verizon CEO Says Its Internet TV Service Will Be Up By Mid-2015 And Will Include “Custom Channels” — CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon's plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead.

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Reuters:

Exclusive : Univision to provide content for DirecTV online service by year end — (Reuters) - Hispanic media giant Univision will be a major supplier of content when satellite operator DirecTV (DTV.O) launches an Internet-delivered service aimed at a Hispanic audience, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement.

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RT:

Ukraine's security service raids independent Kiev newspaper after report on SBU chief's family — The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has raided the office of a Kiev-based online newspaper and seized its servers, downing its website. The tabloid's editor-in-chief says the raid was after a report on the SBU chief's family in the US.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Which millennial news sites are really attracting millennials? — There has been a rash of new startups based on the belief that millennials — that holy grail 18-34 demographic — are disaffected by the traditional news media. Surely, the logic goes, they'll embrace sites that are built with their tastes and sensibilities in mind.

Bloomberg:

Pandora Strikes BMG Deal for Hits From Sinatra to Jay-Z — Pandora Media Inc. (P), the pioneering Internet radio service, reached a licensing agreement with rights management group BMG for hit songs of musicians and artists ranging from Beyonce to Frank Sinatra.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Longform publishing service Byliner acquired by Vook; existing authors' royalty pay increased to 85% — Failed e-singles startup Byliner acquired by digital publisher Vook — Byliner, which aimed to find a new model for selling longform journalism online, crashed and burned this summer.

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Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Yahoo News Digest Lands on iPads With Katie Couric Videos — When Yahoo announced last year it would acquire Summly, a London-based startup specializing in summarization technology headed up by 17-year-old founder Nick D'Aloisio, in a deal reportedly value at $30 million, it left many scratching their heads.

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James Estrin / New York Times:

Photojournalists at the Visa Pour l'Image festival pay tribute to their fallen colleagues — Photographers Facing Danger and Death — Though the conversation at the Visa Pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, France, often turned to the lack of editorial assignments and support for news photographers …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

David Cameron's Daily Telegraph article broke editors' code of practice — At its final meeting a week ago, the Press Complaints Commission ruled that an article written for the Daily Telegraph by the prime minister, David Cameron, breached the editors' code of practice.

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Bloomberg:

Disney, Fox Said to Weigh Joining Sony's Web-TV Service — Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and 21st Century Fox Inc. are in discussions to supply Sony Corp. (6758) with programming for its planned Internet-based TV service, according to people familiar with the conversations.

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