Mediagazer: Huffington Post Launches ‘Outspeak’ Digital Video Network with BroadbandTV (Todd Spangler/Variety)

9:35 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.

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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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Peter Robinson / Guardian:
This is a radio clash: can Radio 1 survive the Apple attack?

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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.”

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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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 …

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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 …

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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

Associated Press:

Former deputy editor of the News of the World, Neil Wallis, goes on trial over phone hacking — Ex-tabloid editor goes on trial over phone hacking — LONDON (AP) — The former deputy editor of the News of the World has gone on trial over phone hacking, with prosecutors saying it's inconceivable …

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Netflix Seen Reaching 7 Million Subs in New Southern Europe Markets by 2020 — Cowen analyst John Blackledge in a report on Tuesday estimated that Netflix would have more than 1 million subscribers in Italy, Spain and Portugal, where it will launch in October, by the end of 2015.

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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