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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 Blog, Fortune, Media & Entertainment, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Pro, CNBC, BBC, PC Magazine, Refinery29, Billboard, Bloomberg Business, hypebot, The Verge, Engadget and The Next Web
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
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 …
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FishbowlNY, 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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Deadline, Bloomberg View and Business Insider
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Tugboat:
Facebook acquires Tugboat Yards, an audience management platform for small to medium publishers; team to join Facebook product group and work on news, video — Joining Facebook — Joining Facebook — It is with lots of excitement and a dash of melancholy that we announce that Tugboat …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, softpedia, PYMNTS.com and PandoDaily
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 …
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@davewiner, @dubois and @alanoakley3
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 …
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New York Post, Fashionista, New York Magazine, theFashionSpot and FishbowlNY
Talya Minsberg / New York Times:
How the New York Times is using Snapchat to cover stories like a gala at the Met — Snapchat: A New Mobile Challenge for Storytelling — Talya Minsberg is a social editor for The Times. — In early 2015, The New York Times started quietly experimenting on Snapchat …
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
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 — Digital upstarts upend tradition at Cannes Film Festival — The market at the Cannes Film Festival, where international movie rights are bought and sold …
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Entertainment Weekly Shakeup: Ellie Duque Replaces Melissa Mattiace as Publisher — Entertainment Weekly publisher Melissa Mattiace has stepped down and will be replaced by the publication's west coast advertising director Ellie Duque. — In her new role, Duque will be responsible for leading …
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MinOnline, Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY and WWD
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