Mediagazer: Wall Street Journal to roll out beta of paid, digest-style news app What's News next month (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)

9:30 AM ET, June 11, 2015

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Wall Street Journal to relaunch European and Asian editions as global weekday broadsheet in September — Wall Street Journal to revamp European and Asian editions in broadsheet format — News Corp-owned paper to relaunch foreign versions in September after going compact a decade ago

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal to roll out beta of paid, digest-style news app What's News next month

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Media companies avoid “advertising” when labeling native ads, favor “sponsored”, “promoted” — Media Brands Shy Away From the A-Word, When It Comes to Labeling Native Ads — An Analysis of Two Dozen Companies Found A Variety of Terms Is Used

Julia Greenberg / Wired:

Tech companies need to tread carefully as they become the stewards of news or risk alienating content producers and consumers — When Tech Giants Deliver the News, They Decide What News Is — So Apple's got its very own newsreader app, aptly called News.

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Madalina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:

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Joshua Hunt / Reuters:

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Public radio is seeing a shift in digital listening: Live streaming is slowing, on-demand is growing — There are early indications that the digital listenership habits of the public radio audience are changing, as fewer people listen to live streaming audio and a growing number choose to tune in on demand.

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Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:

Librarian of Congress James Billington to retire in January — James H. Billington, the brilliant but mercurial head of the Library of Congress, will retire after 28 years at the helm of an institution that has expanded its reach across the country but struggled to stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital world.

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Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:

Jim Romenesko confirms partial retirement, will no longer take job ads and sponsored posts at his site — Romenesko Confirms His Semi-Retirement — For those of us in the media-watch trenches, it amounts to a momentous bit of summer redaction: — But... what does it mean?