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10:55 AM ET, June 9, 2015

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
News gets embedded into iOS 9 with animations, swipeable photo galleries, and personalization; Newsstand won't be missed  —  For news organizations, this was the most important set of Apple announcements in years  —  There wasn't a lot of buildup beforehand, but today's Apple keynote turned …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Apple News looks like Flipboard and replaces Newsstand on your iPhone or iPad  —  Rumors suggested Apple was planning to kill off Newsstand, and now the company is making it official: News will replace Newsstand.  News brings content from publishers across the world, and content owners can customize the way articles are displayed.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Apple's News app might help Apple. It probably won't help the news.
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Publishers get 100% of ads they sell with Apple's News Publisher, 70% of ads sold by iAd; offers targeting and reporting
Discussion: MacStories, 9to5Mac, Medium and WebProNews
Peter Robinson / Guardian:
This is a radio clash: can Radio 1 survive the Apple attack?  —  Breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw has lost almost a million listeners, Zane Lowe has jumped ship and young people are tuning in for less time.  With Apple Music and Spotify changing the game, what does it mean for radio's existing players?
Discussion: @eli1ah, @radiomikehill, @jcstearns and NME
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Apple announces Apple Music: music streaming, human-curated playlists, Beats 1 24/7 radio, Connect to allow artists to interact with fans
Business Wire:
Apple Music launching June 30 on iOS, Mac, and PC with 3 months free, then $9.99 per month, coming to Apple TV and Android phones this fall
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Lester Holt poised to take Brian Williams' anchor chair permanently  —  It is increasingly clear that Lester Holt is going to stay in the “NBC Nightly News” anchor chair.  —  His assignment was originally supposed to last six months — the amount of time Brian Williams was suspended after ten years at the helm of “Nightly.”
Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Corsair and @tvnewslab
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Journalists at Trinity Mirror Midlands could be disciplined if they fail to meet traffic goals  —  Journalists to be given personal online audience growth targets after job cuts at Trinity Mirror Midlands  —  Journalists at Trinity Mirror's restructured Midlands newsrooms …
Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:
Maker Media Nabs $5 Million In Funding And Yahoo Tech Editor Rafe Needleman  —  Right on the heels of adding a new social network for the DIY folks called MakerSpace, Maker Media has raised $5 million in funding from Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, Azure Capital …
Dan Kois / Slate:
Profile of ClickHole, an Onion spinoff created to mock BuzzFeed, and how it became way more than just clickbait  —  Wow.  ClickHole.  —  No judgment, but you waste a lot of time on the internet, right?  Which means sometime in the past year or so, something like this happened …
Kelly McBride / New York Times:
Wikileaks decision to crowd-source $100,000 bounty for the text of TPP deal shows need to rewrite old conventions  —  When It's O.K. to Pay for a Story  —  St. Petersburg, Fla. — JOURNALISTS frown on paying sources.  This decades-old principle stems from the belief that the tawdry practice corrupts …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post to launch a new vertical, PowerPost, with morning newsletter called The Daily 202, about inner workings of Washington's power structure  —  Washington Post to launch ‘PowerPost’  —  The Washington Post on Wednesday will launch a new digital vertical “focused on the inner workings …
Discussion: @davidsirota and @dylanbyers
Michele McLellan / Michele's List:
Alan Mutter used limited CJR data sample in a post about 1-in-4 failure rate for news startups  —  Debating the failure rate  —  Alan Mutter, the Newsosaur, has a thoughtful post about David Borak's decision to cease publication at Davidson News and Cornelius News.
Discussion: @michelemclellan
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Huffington Post Launches ‘Outspeak’ Digital Video Network with BroadbandTV  —  The Huffington Post — the AOL news-aggregation site that has reportedly been shopped to multiple buyers — is launching online-video network Outspeak aimed at millennial audiences in partnership with RTL Group's BroadbandTV …
Discussion: AdAge
Ken White / Popehat:
Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com  —  The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution.
Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why the Jason Rezaian case is a game changer for US correspondents  —  Jason Rezaian appeared Monday in Iranian court, where he defended himself against espionage and other charges that could lead to 20 years in prison.  The trial is closed — a request from the Washington Post to send a representative has not garnered a reply.
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Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:   Jason Rezaian's mother says reporter is “very tired, very distressed”
 
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