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3:00 PM ET, June 18, 2015

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 Top News: 
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 …
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.
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.
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.
NBC News:
Lester Holt confirmed as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams to anchor breaking news and special reports on MSNBC  —  Lester Holt Named Anchor of “NBC Nightly News”  —  Andrew Lack, Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, on Thursday announced that Lester Holt will be named the permanent anchor of “NBC Nightly News.”
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.
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.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Guardian:
Inside Politico's new Brussels office and how it plans to cover the EU amid competition  —  Can Politico make Brussels sexy?  —  he 27-year-old New Yorker Tara Palmeri, a former gossip columnist and the incandescent envoy of media's future to the Brussels of the past …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp to cut more than 100 jobs in publishing unit and close bureaus in Prague and Helsinki  —  News Corp to Cut Jobs, Shift Resources to Digital Media  —  Some WSJ blogs and overseas bureaus to close; cuts could surpass 100  —  News Corp is carrying out a major reorganization …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson could face £750,000 legal bill for phone hacking trial  —  CPS asks court to award costs against David Cameron's former head of communications and former News of the World editor  —  David Cameron's former head of communications Andy Coulson is facing a six-figure legal bill …
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 …
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 …
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard Users Can Now Add Their Own Voice, Opinions And Photos To Their Magazines
Discussion: 9to5Mac
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
Discussion: @niemanlab
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Publishers need to consider how to archive posts on third-party sites likes Facebook, Snapchat, Periscope, and Meerkat
Discussion: @cward1e
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy named Spotify CFO, will step down from Spotify's board
Discussion: Fortune and Business Insider
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Consumer Reports lays off 17 staffers
Discussion: @jeffreyfox, Thanks:@talkingbiznews
 

 
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended

New York Times:
HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM
 
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