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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
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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Nieman Lab, New York Times, Ad Age, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily, @mariamrom, @amaliaviti and @lmirani
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.
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Multichannel News, Adweek, LostRemote, TechCrunch, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, @pkafka and The Verge
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
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FishbowlNY, Business Insider, brandchannel and The Drum
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.
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verizon.com, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Adweek, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Light Reading, CNET, Yahoo! Finance, The Verge, @ingridlunden, The Next Web and Fortune
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.
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VentureBeat, Music Ally, Business Insider, BGR, hypebot, Variety, USA Today, Wired.co.uk, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and Mashable
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, Poynter, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, @raju, @kevinroose, The Huffington Post, Gawker, The Atlantic, @jayrosen_nyu, New York Times and @jgreendc
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.
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Instagram Blog, Wired, WWD, VentureBeat, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
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.
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@kristindonnelly, @doughenwood, @moorehn, @kimseverson, @biettetimmons, @ianadelman, bookforum.com, @candacejackson, @amychozick, @laura_nelson and FishbowlDC
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 …
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Guardian, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, brandchannel, The Drum, AdExchanger and The Next Web
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 …
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