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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Apple's News app might help Apple. It probably won't help the news.
Apple's News app might help Apple. It probably won't help the news.
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The Content Strategist, @ryantate, @glennf, Talking New Media, BetaNews, Capital New York, MacRumors, The Verge and AppleInsider
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 …
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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.”
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FishbowlNY, The Corsair and @tvnewslab
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?
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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
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
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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
Apple announces Apple Music: music streaming, human-curated playlists, Beats 1 24/7 radio, Connect to allow artists to interact with fans
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Micropayments startup Blendle signs up 18 daily newspapers, 15 weeklies in Germany, lets users pay for individual newspaper and magazine articles à la carte — All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web
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TechCrunch, @ejpfauth, Reuters and Poynter
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.
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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 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix stock hits $648 a share after Brad Pitt deal, international rollout, up more than 188% in 2015 — Netflix Shares Spike to All-Time High on Brad Pitt Deal, International Rollout — Netflix shares hit an all-time high Tuesday — cresting $648 per share — as investors rallied …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Vice's CEO on an IPO: 'We would be stupid if we didn't see what the market will pay' (but 'I'd have to upgrade my wardrobe') — It sounds like youth-focused media company Vice is edging ever closer to an IPO. — Vice Media co-founder and CEO Shane Smith appeared on Tuesday (June 9) …
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 …
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George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
US broadcasters, including Cox and Hearst Television, launch a free joint streaming news service called NewsOn — Stations Band Together for Streaming News App — Free streaming news service will offer newscasts from ABC, COX, Hearst, Media General and Raycom stations
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LostRemote and TVSpy