Mediagazer: Tech companies need to tread carefully as they become the stewards of news or risk alienating content producers and consumers (Julia Greenberg/Wired)

1:40 PM ET, June 11, 2015

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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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Joshua Hunt / Reuters:

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

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