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5:50 PM ET, May 20, 2015

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Spotify announces new version with podcasts, video, and playlists tailored for listener's day  —  Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, And Activity-Based Playlists  —  Spotify has just unveiled the newest version of the product at a media event here in New York City.
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Ex-Gawker EIC A.J. Daulerio fires entire editorial staff of new site Ratter, planned as a local news site with a “tabloid sensibility”, now plans a “pivot”  —  Ex-Gawker Editor A.J. Daulerio ‘Pivots,’ Eliminates Editorial Staff of New Site
Discussion: Gawker, @m_udland and @strngwys
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires offering buyouts amid “serious realignment” of staffing  —  Journal offering buyouts amid ‘serious realignment’ in newsroom  —  Buyouts are underway in The Wall Street Journal newsroom, Capital has learned, signaling a shift in resources …
Discussion: Poynter and Talking Biz News
Bloomberg Business:
Time Warner Cable Said to Get Takeover Approach From Altice  —  Time Warner Cable Inc., whose merger with Comcast Corp. was called off last month, has received a takeover approach from French billionaire Patrick Drahi's Altice SA, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Associated Press:
Altice to buy US cable operator Suddenlink for $9.1 billion
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mark Thompson on the Times' Facebook ‘experiment’  —  New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson said Wednesday that the Times wouldn't be participating in Facebook's new Instant Articles program if the terms weren't “sufficiently favorable” to the company and its shareholders.
Discussion: @janemartinson
Claire Wardle / BBC Academy:
Researchers analyze newsroom use of media from eyewitnesses, find lack of standard practices, conclude newsrooms are risking reputational damage  —  Eyewitness media and news: It's still a Wild West out there  —  is research director at the Tow Center @cward1e
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today's Internet  —  “If you think BuzzFeed invented the listicle, you haven't spent enough time with 19th-century newspapers, because they're everywhere.”  —  That's Ryan Cordell, a Northeastern University professor …
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
USA Today's Editor-in-Chief David Callaway talks about buyouts, staff changes, and mid-summer split of Gannett newspapers and broadcast divisions  —  USA Today's Callaway says he won't disappear in spin-off  —  USA Today editor in chief David Callaway criticized an item describing an exodus …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and AdAge
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Lucky magazine reduces publication to quarterly, lays off another 10 staff, including president Gillian Gorman Round  —  Lucky Magazine Goes Quarterly  —  Reports of Lucky magazine going all-digital have been a staple of the media rumor mill for several years, with WWD reporting just last month …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Study: DC insiders trust beltway publications most, read newsletters first thing in the morning; LinkedIn tops social media sites  —  Study: D.C. insiders trust media more  —  Washington insiders are trusting the media more, though they are sometimes overwhelmed by it …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership”  —  Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one.  In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors.  On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
 
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Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom Raises Dividend and Reaffirms Plan to Resume Buybacks in October
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
Digital companies like Netflix and Oculus begin to make inroads at Cannes, the most traditional festival in the film industry
Ilaria Maria Sala / Guardian:
Independent journalists to launch crowdfunded English-language newspaper Hong Kong Free Press in June
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Publishers face threat of punitive libel costs as rival regulator IMPRESS seeks official recognition
Discussion: @markhannamedia and Guardian
Talya Minsberg / New York Times:
How the New York Times is using Snapchat to cover stories like a gala at the Met
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Charter and Bright House Pursuing Merger Even After Comcast's Failed Deal
Chris Krewson / Medium:
How Philadelphia's local news site Billy Penn covered the crash of Amtrak 188
Discussion: Billy Penn
Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Netflix shares hit record $628.50 following Wall Street reports calling the company undervalued
Discussion: Deadline
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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