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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.
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Spotify Press, New York Times, The Independent, The Wrap, AdAge, The Verge, Fortune, Re/code, VentureBeat, Wired, PRNewser, US News, hypebot, Billboard, AdExchanger, Media & Entertainment, The Next Web, PC Pro, Associated Press, Adweek, BBC, The Verge, CNBC, Engadget, PC Magazine, Refinery29 and Bloomberg Business
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
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis leaves to study at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Matthew Panzarino to continue as editor — TechCrunch's Top Editor Tsotsis Steps Down — Alexia Tsotsis will be stepping down from her high-profile job as co-editor of TechCrunch today.
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Gawker, TechCrunch, @panzer, @fmanjoo, @martinsfp, @caseynewton and Talking Biz News
Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
How Al Jazeera America Went from a Home for Idealists to a Sexist Mess — On the morning of May 6, two manholes near Penn Station in Manhattan exploded in succession, spooking pedestrians and temporarily snarling traffic on 8th Avenue as investigators scratched their heads.
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@max_read, @taliawhyte, @tomgara, @thekarami and @mattdamours
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 …
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AdAge and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Bloomberg Business:
David Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, owns over 4K hours of vintage comedy footage that may become streaming video — On Letterman's Next Top 10 List: What to Do With All That Content — 4,000 Hours of Classic Comedy That Could Become Streaming Video — $43.6B
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Mediaite, The New York Observer, Variety, Rolling Stone, USA Today, /Film, CNNMoney, Hollywood Reporter, Media & Entertainment and Wall Street Journal
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
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.
Discussion:
Bloomberg View, Deadline and Business Insider
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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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@tonyromm, Poynter, @dannysullivan, @anthonyha, @mathewi, @jguynn, @panzer, @mikeisaac, @mathewi and @jeffjohnroberts
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times, Washington Post, Vox, and others retract or add notes to posts based on fraudulent research in the journal Science — Vox retracts story based on fraudulent research — At least two news organizations have re-examined stories based on fraudulent research published in the academic journal …
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 and @lexalexander
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
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Comcast lost friends, its influence, and the bid for Time Warner Cable — “Life is like a box of chocolates,” Brian Roberts tells the crowd. Avuncular and bespectacled, the 55-year-old CEO looks like he might begin dispensing some homespun Hollywood wisdom any second …
Joshua Eaton / PRI:
In Tibet, bloggers post at their own risk — These are treacherous days for anyone in China who dares to publicly criticize government policy, especially when it comes to Beijing's handling the troubled ethnic minority regions of Tibet. — A Tibetan blogger named Druklo is one of the latest people to find that out the hard way.
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