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NYT's Apple Watch app features custom one-sentence stories with images and bullet points; readers can use Handoff to continue reading on iPhone or iPad — The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch — The New York Times has developed a new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
New Daily Show host Trevor Noah comes under fire for misogynistic, anti-Semitic tweets — Comedy Central Stands Behind Trevor Noah, New ‘Daily Show’ Host, Amid Scrutiny — Within hours of the announcement that he had been named the new host of “The Daily Show,” the comedian Trevor Noah …
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Source: Owner of Gristedes grocery chain, John Catsimatidis, made a bid larger than Cablevision's $1 for The Daily News — Daily News Said to Get Bids From Cablevision and Billionaire Grocer — The billionaire owner of the grocery chain Gristedes, and the owner of Newsday …
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Exclusive: Cablevision to make $1 offer for New York Daily News
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David Corbin / Tech in Asia:
Japanese news app SmartNews nabs $10M bridge round, at pre-money valuation of $320M — The back-and-forth between SmartNews and Gunosy, Japan's premier news apps that are taking their domestic war global, added a new chapter today. Only a week after Gunosy filed for a US$263 million IPO …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Japan's SmartNews Raises Another $10M At A $320M Valuation To Expand In The U.S. — While general sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google stake their claims as news portals, apps focused squarely on reading news continue to duke it out. — The latest development comes from SmartNews …
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Angela Chen / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications to acquire cable operator Bright House in $10.4B stock-and-cash deal, will control 73.7%, partnering with Advance/Newhouse and Liberty — Charter Communications to Buy Cable Operator Bright House Networks — The deal, valued at $10.4 billion, comes as the pay-TV industry rapidly consolidates
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets — Twitter this morning is launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in real-time.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Indianapolis Star took a bold stand in print but forced the editorial into a standard Gannett template online — When your newspaper wants to make a big statement, make sure you're making it online too — Indiana's passed a bill that many say allows state-sanctioned discrimination …
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Facebook says a dip in reach numbers for publishers in February was due to a data glitch, not a real decline in delivery of posts — Facebook claims Newsfeed dip for news sites was a mere ‘bug’ — Facebook giveth traffic. Hath Facebook taken it away? — The social network …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Vox Media's head of ad sales Joe Purzycki joins Medium to lead brand partnerships — Medium Poaches Vox Sales Exec to Build Nascent Ad Business — Medium — the publishing platform founded by the guys who started Twitter — is getting more aggressive in its bid to attract brand advertising dollars.
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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Comcast CFO to Step Down and Run $4 Billion Investment Arm for Comcast — Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis is leaving the cable giant to launch a new Comcast-funded investment company that will focus on investing and operating “growth-oriented” companies, the company said Tuesday.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
National Review goes non-profit — National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, is becoming a non-profit, the On Media blog has learned. — Since its launch, the magazine has operated as a not-for-profit business, even as it came to rely on more and more donations in recent years.
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