Mediagazer: PlayStation Vue expands to San Francisco and Los Angeles; a la carte channels like Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima coming in July (Michelle Starr/CNET)

1:10 AM ET, June 16, 2015

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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 …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Report: One-third of readers disappointed or deceived by sponsored content — About a third of news consumers in both the United States and the United Kingdom feel tricked or let down by sponsored content or native advertising, according to a new report released this evening by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Reuters Institute digital news survey: traditional news outlets losing ground to social media

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Rem Rieder / USA Today:

A look inside BuzzFeed as it strengthens news coverage and prepares to launch its news app on iOS on Thursday — Rieder: BuzzFeed a burgeoning journalistic force — NEW YORK When Mark Schoofs arrived from ProPublica to launch BuzzFeed's investigative reporting unit in January 2014 …

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Michelle Starr / CNET:

PlayStation Vue expands to San Francisco and Los Angeles; a la carte channels like Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima coming in July — PlayStation Vue announces a la carte service, coming to SF and LA — Sony's PlayStation live TV streaming service is launching tonight in new markets …

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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 …

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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 …

David Gilbert / International Business Times:
Sunday Times defends Edward Snowden report criticised as ‘the opposite of journalism’

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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Reuters:

With CEO shakeup, Twitter under pressure to please advertisers — Twitter Inc's (TWTR.N) next chief executive officer faces a crucial challenge as the company seeks to appease Wall Street after last week's management shakeup - helping disaffected advertisers connect with users.

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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:

One big problem with Facebook as a platform for news: It deletes things — As Facebook rolls out its “Instant Articles” initiative, in which news entities such as the New York Times and The Guardian are publishing directly to the social network, instead of just posting links to their own sites …

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Ben Popper / The Verge:

Spotify's ‘Taste Rewind’ finds tracks you'll like from the last five decades — Now that most streaming music services offer a massive selection of 30 million tracks, the challenge for consumers is discovering new stuff they want to hear. Spotify has a new take out called Rewind …

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Tara Conlan / The Guardian:

BBC News staff voice concern over corporation tracking mobile devices — Survey finds most staff do not trust the BBC not to misuse information obtained by monitoring laptops and phones — Concerns have been raised by BBC News staff after they were told the corporation can track their work mobile devices …

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 …

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Jenna Marotta / Racked:

Lucky to Shutter Print Magazine, Scale Back Digital Efforts — A Lucky staffer confirmed exclusively to Racked that she and “a bunch” of her colleagues were laid off this weekend after the magazine's parent company failed to receive vital investment funds, signaling the end …

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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.

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