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Quartz launches Atlas, a searchable platform of charts and data visualizations by staff and select contributors — Atlas, the new home for charts and data — Today we are thrilled to launch Atlas, a new platform for discovering and sharing great charts. You can find it at atlas.qz.com.
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New York Times, Nieman Lab, Poynter, Ad Age, FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily, @mariamrom, @amaliaviti and @lmirani


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
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FishbowlNY, Business Insider, brandchannel and The Drum


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.
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Music Ally, VentureBeat, New York Times, Business Insider, USA Today, Wired.co.uk, The Next Web, Variety, BGR, hypebot and 9to5Mac


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.
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verizon.com, The Huffington Post, Mediashift, Forbes, Adweek, Tech Times, VatorNews, Light Reading, Yahoo! Finance, CNET, The Verge, @ingridlunden, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Fortune


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.
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Multichannel News, Home Media Magazine, Adweek, The Wrap, LostRemote, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, @pkafka and The Verge


BBC launches app with card-based interface on iOS and Android for youth-oriented Newsbeat service; stories available offline — The BBC's launched an app for its youth-friendly Newsbeat service — The BBC has just launched mobile apps for fans of its youth-oriented Newsbeat content service …
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About the BBC, Talking New Media, Digital Spy and Engadget


Charleston's Post and Courier holds legislators accountable by polling them on Confederate flag debate, listing Twitter handles, displaying results in real time — South Carolina's Post And Courier Holds Lawmakers Accountable On Confederate Flag Debate — NEW YORK — On Monday morning …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Post and Courier, Washington Post, @tina_nguyen, @andyparas, NPR, @jaspar, @jaspar, @jaspar, @tylermjones, @pmocwriter and @allisonprang


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 …
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RAIN News, VentureBeat and Tech Times


Netflix board approves 7-for-1 stock split for those who own stock as of July 2 — Netflix is splitting its stock 7 ways — Netflix is splitting its stock seven ways. — The company announced this in a statement Tuesday, saying the stock dividend will be payable on July 14 to those who own stocks as at July 2.
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PR Newswire, Wall Street Journal and CNBC


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.
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Instagram Blog, Wired, New York Times, SocialTimes, Adweek, WWD, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint and Wall Street Journal


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.
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@doughenwood, @moorehn, @kimseverson, @kristindonnelly, @biettetimmons, @ianadelman, bookforum.com, @candacejackson, @amychozick, @laura_nelson and FishbowlDC


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 …
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