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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Brian Williams to stay with NBC at MSNBC, while Lester Holt to become NBC Nightly News permanent anchor — Brian Williams expected to stay at NBC — Brian Williams is down, but not out. — NBC and Williams have come to a tentative agreement that will keep Williams at the network …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos — Storyful and Google News Lab today are launching YouTube Newswire, a dedicated YouTube channel meant to serve as a resource for journalists looking for user-generated videos from around the world …
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TechCrunch, Medium, VentureBeat, YouTube Blog, WITNESS and The Next Web
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed launches news app that focuses on serious reporting, notifications, and curation — Why BuzzFeed wanted everyone to know about its new news app — even before it launched — If you're reading this, then it's more likely than not that you're already aware of BuzzFeed's news app.
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian Media Group appoints David Pemsel as chief executive — Former ITV marketing director, who wants to build on Guardian and Observer's international audience, succeeds Andrew Miller — Guardian Media Group has promoted David Pemsel to the role of chief executive.
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Business Insider and Sky News
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple emails publishers, telling them its News app will use their RSS feeds and they will indemnify Apple from lawsuits unless they opt out — Publishers Upset Over Apple's Opt-Out Terms for Inclusion in iOS 9 News App — Apple recently sent a mass email to news publishers to introduce …
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NSBlog, BBC, Tech Times, @driven_by_data, The Drum, BetaNews and Business Insider
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Arianna Huffington renews contract through 2019 — Forget about a Huffington Post without Huffington. — Arianna Huffington, the web site's namesake, president and editor in chief, told staffers on Thursday that she has signed a new contract that will keep her in place through 2019.
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Wall Street Journal and @mlcalderone
Lisa Campbell / Bookseller News:
Amazon will now pay Kindle Direct authors based on how many pages customers read — Amazon to pay KDP authors ‘per page’ — Amazon is changing the way it pays self-published authors whose books are enlisted in the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending library to a pay-per-page-read model.
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Good E-Reader
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat says its Live Stories, which include multiple ads costing around 2 cents per view for advertisers, are viewed on average by 20M people per day — Snapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live Stories — Snapchat built a brand out of disappearing photos …
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Business Insider
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Daily Telegraph set for Ipso rebuke over Nicola Sturgeon front-page article — Press regulator makes preliminary finding that story claiming Scottish first minister preferred David Cameron as PM breached editors' code of practice — The Daily Telegraph is set to be rebuked by the press regulator for a …
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Wenner Media, parent of Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Men's Health, lays off over a dozen staffers — ‘Rolling Stone’ Hit With Round of Layoffs — Wenner Media has laid off more than a dozen staffers on Wednesday across Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal magazines.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard Users Can Now Add Their Own Voice, Opinions And Photos To Their Magazines — Mobile news magazine app Flipboard may be putting on a brave face in the wake of new competition from iOS 9's forthcoming News app, practically a Flipboard clone. But there's no doubt that the service needs …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal contracts with correspondent Nolan Peterson to cover the Ukraine as it works to build credibility — “This is my dream job”: How one journalist became The Daily Signal's first foreign correspondent — Nolan Peterson spent last week embedded with the Ukrainian army.
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