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10:40 AM ET, April 20, 2015

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed review itemizes reasons for post deletions; ad pressure led to three in 2013 and 2014  —  BuzzFeed Deleted Posts Under Pressure from Its Own Business Department  —  Earlier this week, BuzzFeed launched an internal review of any posts that its editors or writers had deleted …
Hadley Freeman / Guardian:
Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show  —  Stewart's decision to retire as host of the satirical news show after 16 years has left liberal America in mourning.  So why is he leaving just before an election - and what will happen when he steps out from behind the desk?
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Vice, CNN, NBC and ‘Serial’ Among Peabody Winners  —  Vice News, CNN, NBC and the Serial podcast were among the winners for the 74th annual Peabody Awards.  —  Vice won for “Last Chance High,” a deep report on a Chicago high school whose high-risk students are running out of options along with a report on “The Islamic State.”
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Condé Nast launches first Apple Watch app, cooking instructions from Epicurious  —  Epicurious Brings Cooking Instructions To The Apple Watch With New Smart Timer App  —  What will recipes look like on the Apple Watch?  I'm not sure, but Condé Nast-owned cooking website Epicurious has taken a stab at figuring it out.
John Brownlee / Co.Design:
NYT Labs developed a smart conference table that records, transcribes conversation around it  —  The New York Times Invents A Conference Table That Takes Notes For You  —  Like most offices, the New York Times holds a lot of meetings.  Editorial meetings, ad sales meetings, design meetings …
Discussion: Curbed National, Thanks:@steverubel
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast, TWC will meet with Department of Justice for the first time since the merger was announced to negotiate concessions that could ease regulatory approval  —  Comcast and Time Warner Cable to Meet With DOJ to Negotiate Merger  —  Regulators examining whether Comcast lived up to NBCUniversal deal concessions, sources say
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Politico plans to double its reporting staff to about 500  —  Policy and politics news outlet reveals strategy to grow beyond US and European operation, which launched this week  —  US-based policy and politics news outlet Politico is looking to double the number of journalists it employs …
Discussion: @maggieshiels and @joshluger
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming  —  LOS GATOS, Calif. — It is April 9 just before midnight in the war room of Netflix's headquarters here, where the smell of popcorn fills the air and a team of engineers, social media experts and other specialists starts counting …
Discussion: @ennisnyt
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CBS 60 Minutes viewers largely supportive of decision to air Syrian Sarin gas attack footage  —  ‘Nauseating, but necessary:’ Sarin gas attack in Syria shown on ‘60 Minutes’  —  Ahead of Sunday's “60 Minutes,” CBS said the newsmagazine would be airing “some of the most disturbing footage in its 47-year history.”
Alex Howard / Medium:
RhinoBird.tv launches collaborative livestreaming app for Android during #BostonMarathon  —  Media hype around the livestreaming “Meerkat election” helped Twitter, which put up its own Periscope for social livestreaming last month.  —  Today,RhinoBird.tv officially launches its beta during …
Michael Ballaban / Jalopnik:
CNN has a video it will play when the world ends  —  This Is The Video CNN Will Play When The World Ends  —  Thirty-four years ago, at the launch of Ted Turner's Cable News Network, the founder made a grandiose and specific promise about his newly created round-the-clock operation.
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori's Pay Rises to $23 Million in 2014
Douglas Miller / American Journalism Review:
Behind “Behind the Bloodshed”, USA Today's 2013 data interactive on mass killings
Discussion: @brannonj
Columbia Journalism Review:
Knight Foundation study: of 14 nonprofit news organizations studied, three have grown, four cut staff, and seven held steady since 2013
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How The Forward, 118 years old, is remaking itself as the American Jewish community changes
Discussion: New York Post
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Marketers and publishers still trying to find a way to measure native advertising success and return-on-investment
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
New York Times' experiment in curated aggregation finds an audience who returns to homepage after clicking links
Discussion: @wblau
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube is Once Again Marketing Its Stars, Including Talk Show Host Grace Helbig
Discussion: @susanwojcicki