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2:50 PM ET, June 23, 2015

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 Top News: 
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Hulu will sell Showtime online for $9, $2 less than Apple, Roku, Sony, and is paying for the discount out of pocket  —  Hulu Will Sell Showtime on the Web, Too — At a 20 Percent Discount  —  If you want a digital subscription to Showtime, you can buy one from Apple, Sony or Roku for $11 a month starting in July.
Jens Hansegard / Wall Street Journal:
Tidal loses interim CEO after less than three months in the job, its second since launch  —  Boss of Jay Z's Music-Streaming Service Tidal Quits  —  Tidal faces industry criticism of premium business model as competition mounts  —  STOCKHOLM—At Tidal, Peter Tonstad failed to beat the rap.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
VICE and Unilever partner to create Broadly, a women's channel, will also be distributed to other channels like YouTube, Snapchat, and TV  —  Vice and Unilever team up for launch of female-focused channel  —  Broadly to be video-led channel spanning subjects such as politics, culture, sex and fashion
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Verizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL For $4.4B  —  Well, that was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash for a total price of $4.4 billion.  The sale was originally announced just over a month ago.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google launches free, ad-supported music streaming ahead of Apple Music debut, available in the US today for Android and on the web, coming soon to iOS  —  Google launches free music streaming ahead of Apple Music debut  —  As Apple Music nears its June 30th launch, Google is getting …
Discussion: RAIN News, VentureBeat and Tech Times
Casey Tolan / Fusion:
How a Pulitzer-winning New York Times journalist was tricked into reporting about the Charleston killer's nonexistent Tumblr posts  —  How a 16-year-old tricked the New York Times into reporting that Dylann Roof blogged about “My Little Pony”  —  If you read this New York Times article …
TechCrunch:
Instagram revamps Explore tab in the US to add newsy, real-time discovery for people, tags, places  —  Instagram Gets Newsy With Trends And Place Search For Exploring Anything, Anywhere  —  Instagram has real-time coverage of almost everything happening in the world.
Jill Filipovic / Cosmopolitan:
Profile of Amy Chozick, who moved to New York City after college with no job and now is covering Hillary Clinton for the New York Times  —  Get That Life: How I Got the Hillary Clinton Beat at “The New York Times”  —  Amy Chozick moved to New York with no job and nowhere to live.
Carol Driver / Daily Mail:
DailyMail, WPP and Snapchat partner to launch first global content marketing company Truffle Pig  —  DailyMail is teaming up with two of the world's biggest names in marketing, content and community to launch the first joint global digital content agency.  —  Making the announcement on board …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Comcast and NBC Open Cross-Promotional Ad Strategy  —  When Microsoft wanted to promote its Surface Pro 3 tablet during the last holiday season, it turned to NBCUniversal for help.  Together, the companies came up with a sweeping marketing campaign, with pieces showing up across NBCUniversal's broadcast …
Discussion: @dubois
Jan Schaffer / Nieman Lab:
“Civic journalism” experiments in the '90s worked by involving readers in solutions, a method news organizations may have already forgotten  —  If audience engagement is the goal, it's time to look back at the successes of civic journalism for answers
Discussion: @nbj914 and @digidave
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Publishers, researchers, and developers discuss strategies to make news app notifications better during NYC Media Lab's “Future of Notifications” panel
Adario Strange / Mashable:
Getty Images launches virtual reality imagery collection, 360 Degree View, in Oculus Store
Discussion: PSFK
 Earlier Picks: 
Mic Wright / The Next Web:
Rdio is now on Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick
Discussion: TechHive, Thanks:@atechmemefan
E&P:
COO of Canada's Postmedia, Wayne Parrish, is stepping down after three and a half years
Discussion: Globe and Mail
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
Nestlé Will Be the First Brand to Run a Sponsored Periscope Stream
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
MinnPost introduces members-only content with MinnPost+
Discussion: MinnPost
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
German regulators extend 2002 Youth Media Protection Law to include adult-content e-books, ban their sale between 6AM and 10PM local time
Discussion: The Next Web