Mediagazer: Alan Mutter used limited CJR data sample in a post about 1-in-4 failure rate for news startups (Michele McLellan/Michele's List)

6:00 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 …

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.

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Apple's News app might help Apple. It probably won't help the news. — I have to assume that in some culture (maybe my own), there is an allegory about an ill patient being tended to by scores of doctors, all of whom offer different remedies, breaking into factions focused on one strategy or another …

Discussion: The Content Strategist, @ryantate, BetaNews, Capital New York, MacRumors, The Verge and AppleInsider

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

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 Launches Apple Music Subscription Service — Apple officially introduced its new music streaming service, dubbed Apple Music …

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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 — Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™ …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Apple Revives Ping As “Connect,” Letting Artists Share A Feed Of Music, Videos And Social Media — Apple wants to be the way you socially connect to musicians, not Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify. As a tab in its new Apple Music on-demand streaming service, Apple is launching Connect …

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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Spotify plans more competitive pricing to match Apple Music's family plan of $14.99 for up to six people

Discussion: AppleInsider and Business Insider

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.”

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 …

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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.

Discussion: @zerofskaya, @postbaron, @cjr and Associated Press

Nasser Karimi / Associated Press: Jason Rezaian's mother says reporter is “very tired, very distressed”

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.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:

CALmatters aims to make people interested in state government and fill a gap in California — This is the idea: A small collection of journalists, with backgrounds in newspapers, broadcast, and years of investigative work, join together to create a nonprofit news outlet.

Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

Reporters announce conference in Lousiville to unionize digital media — A group of reporters associated with the labor movement are organizing a conference in Louisville to discuss how to unionize the digital media industry. — The National Convergence to Organize Digital Media will be held in Louisville, Ky. on Oct. 8-11.

Discussion: Poynter, @noahmccormack, @leonlazaroff and @timothys

Dave Winer / Scripting News:

What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web — Yesterday I did a review of the feeds I follow for tech news, and posted a request to Facebook for people to recommend their favorites. In this review I came across a “MegaFeed” for Glenn Fleishman …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

New York Times spokesperson rejects Free Beacon report on Clinton donation, says it is preposterous — Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08 — Bill and Hillary Clinton's Family Foundation gave $100,000 to a New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year that the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Week, @davidsirota, @dylanbyers and @alanagoodman

Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, @andrewstilesusa, @redsteeze, @continetti, FishbowlNY, @dylanbyers, @glennthrush and @liz_cheney

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

One year after launch, Slate Plus has 9,000+ subscribers, generating around $500K a year — One year in, Slate draws 9,000 paying subscribers — For Slate, getting readers to pay for content was going back to the future. Back in 1998, it was one of the first sites to try a paywall, which quickly failed.

Discussion: @mathewi, @raju, VentureBeat and @jayrosen_nyu

Julia Turner / Slate:
Slate launches metered paywall for non-US readers, five free stories a month, cites inability to monetize international readership through domestic ads revenue

Discussion: Media Wire Daily and FishbowlNY