Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:20 PM ET, June 23, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 …
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
Andrew Lih / New York Times:
Wikipedia faces decline in editor participation due to poor support for mobile editing and internal governance disputes  —  Can Wikipedia Survive?  —  WASHINGTON — WIKIPEDIA has come a long way since it started in 2001.  With around 70,000 volunteers editing in over 100 languages …
Discussion: @frederick_mona, @edge and Mediashift
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:20 PM ET, June 23, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
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
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page