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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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YouTube Blog, Medium, TechCrunch, Medium, Journalism.co.uk, Variety, @marklittlenews, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, Fortune, The Next Web, WITNESS and @niemanlab


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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Washington Post, Politico, New York Times, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Hollywood Reporter, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal and @mlcalderone


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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Digiday, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Fortune, LA Observed, VentureBeat, @niemanlab, @zseward, @wblau and The Next Web


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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Poynter, TechCrunch, TIME, Refinery29, The Next Web, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, @mikeindustries, @digiphile and MacStories

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.”
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CNNMoney, TVNewser, @lesterholtnbc, Politico, New York Times, Deadline, @brianstelter, Fox News, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, Poynter and iMediaEthics


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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Press Gazette, Media Wire Daily, Business Insider and Sky News


Print Wikipedia project begins at New York City gallery and includes a 91-volume table of contents and 36 volumes of contributors via print-on-demand editions — Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves — The Wikipedia entry for “quixoticism” runs only about 255 words.
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Tech Times, Washington Post, Sky News, bookforum.com, The Verge, Mirror.co.uk and VentureBeat


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, @louisgray, @driven_by_data, Tech Times, The Drum, BetaNews and Business Insider


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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@raju, @jeffjohnroberts and Good E-Reader


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 …
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@lindakinstler, @mlcalderone, @buzzfeedben and @joshfromalaska


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 …
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Capital New York and New York Times


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 …


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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Poynter, @recode, @fmanjoo and Business Insider


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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@jimwaterson, @johnrentoul and @alanferrier