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10:40 AM ET, May 20, 2015

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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 …
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 …
Discussion: @alanoakley3, @davewiner and @dubois
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 …
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 …
Discussion: VentureBeat and PandoDaily
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 …
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 …
Discussion: MinOnline, FishbowlNY and WWD
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Publishers face threat of punitive libel costs as rival regulator IMPRESS seeks official recognition  —  New press regulator IMPRESS has revealed that it is applying for official recognition under the Parliament-backed Royal Charter process.  —  It is a move which paves the way for all publishers …
Discussion: @markhannamedia and Guardian
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Charter and Bright House Pursuing Merger Even After Comcast's Failed Deal  —  Charter Communications announced Monday that it was going ahead with its $10.4 billion deal for Bright House Networks, signaling the start of a new push to consolidate the country's cable operators.
Chris Krewson / Medium:
How Philadelphia's local news site Billy Penn covered the crash of Amtrak 188  —  How we covered the crash of Amtrak 188  —  The NTSB on the scene of the Amtrak 188 crash in Port Richmond; .  Last Tuesday was winding up to be a pretty average school night.
Discussion: Billy Penn
 
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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Netflix shares hit record $628.50 following Wall Street reports calling the company undervalued
Discussion: Deadline
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Conde Nast and Italy's RAI Cinema partner and launch “CNLive!”, a web channel in Italy serving primarily as a promotional vehicle for RAI's movies
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Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
New York Times C.I.O. Marc Frons to leave the company
Discussion: @pmaiorana and @marcfrons
Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:
Tweets get more prominent placement in Google results after Google-Twitter deal; Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic
Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
Inside Google's secretive anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars
Discussion: Business Insider
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music