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5:30 PM ET, June 15, 2015

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple will share 71.5% of Apple Music revenue with music rights owners in US, no royalties during trial period  —  Here's What Happens to Your $10 After You Pay for a Month of Apple Music  —  You don't have to pay anything to try Apple's new streaming music service, since the company …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Sunday Times drops claim that Miranda met Snowden before UK detention  —  Allegation repeated one made in Daily Mail in September 2014, which was removed on Monday pending inquiries  —  An allegation that the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald met Edward Snowden …
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David Gilbert / International Business Times:
Sunday Times defends Edward Snowden report criticised as ‘the opposite of journalism’  —  Being a front page article on the Sunday Times will immediately give any story a significant level of credibility, which is why the splash story regarding Edward Snowden published on 14 June was so dangerous.
Discussion: Guardian, Hit & Run and @daithaigilbert
Nicole Levy / Capital New York:
Eric Zinczenko named C.E.O. of Bonnier Corp.  —  Bonnier Corp. chief executive David Freygang has stepped down from his position, passing control of the magazine company to executive V.P. Eric Zinczenko.  —  Freygang is retiring after a career of more than a quarter-century at Bonnier …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple is hiring editors to curate content for News app and work with publications to quickly surface breaking stories, according to a company job listing  —  Apple News curation will have human editors and that will raise important questions  —  Apple hasn't talked about it publicly …
Guardian:
Guardian US to launch lab focusing on mobile journalism with $2.6M in Knight Foundation funding, will share all data and research  —  Guardian US to launch news innovation lab focused on using mobile technology to create deeper journalism with $2.6 million from Knight Foundation
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix Launches New Website to All Members  —  Netflix began rolling out its new website design to all of its members around the globe Monday.  The new site features bigger images, more animations and is supposed to feel “more like an app and less like a series of linked web pages,” …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NOLA Media Group and Alabama Media Group, both owned by Advance Local, merging to form Southeast Regional Media Group  —  Times-Picayune and Birmingham News to join new regional company  —  NOLA Media Group and Alabama Media Group, two media companies owned by Advance Local …
Discussion: NOLA.com
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Johnson Publishing names Kierna Mayo as editor-in-chief of Ebony and Kyra Kyles as head of digital editorial  —  New editorial chief at Ebony's Johnson Publishing … Johnson Publishing named Kierna Mayo as editor-in-chief of its monthly magazine Ebony and Kyra Kyles as its new head of digital editorial …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror Midlands journalists rebel over plan to give them individual online audience targets  —  Trinity Mirror journalists in the Midlands have passed motions of no confidence in management over plans to introduce individual audience targets, according to the National Union of Journalists.
Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage and Guardian
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
VICE opens Miami bureau as part of effort to target Hispanic millennials  —  Miami Vice: Millennial Whisperer Looks to Grow Its U.S. Hispanic Audience  —  Vice is taking its talents to South Beach.  —  The publisher is opening up a Miami bureau to produce more articles and videos aimed …
Discussion: Cablefax
Hollywood Reporter:
NFL Hires Former WB Network Chief Jordan Levin as Head of Content  —  The NFL has hired a new chief of content.  —  Industry veteran Jordan Levin has been tapped to oversee the league's programming efforts as its first chief content officer.  —  Levin, who starts his new job Monday …
 
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Nicholas Blechman named creative director at The New Yorker
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
TV streaming, new ad tech, and international expansion are likely to be James Murdoch's priorities if he becomes CEO of Fox
Discussion: The Huffington Post
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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