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10:35 PM ET, September 21, 2015

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Netflix-like e-book subscription service Oyster to shut down; part of team moving to Google Play Books, including CEO and co-founders according to sources  —  Oyster, a Netflix for Books, Is Shutting Down.  But Most of Its Team Is Heading to Google.  —  Oyster, a company that provides …
Matt Miller / Esquire:
The Onion launches StarWipe, a parody of celebrity gossip sites, led by senior The A.V. Club editor Sean O'Neal  —  ‘StarWipe’ Is The Onion's Answer to Soulless Celebrity Gossip  —  It's like ClickHole, only with way more Bieber and Kardashian.  —  STARWIPE
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing shares plummet 20 percent after company adjusts its 2015 forecast downward  —  Tribune Publishing shares were down more than 20 percent in midday trading on Monday after the company pulled back from an earlier forecast for revenues and earnings — and largely blamed its Southern California papers for the problem.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
4chan sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2Channel, an early anonymous online message board in Japan  —  4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer  —  If the Internet is the Wild West, you could call 4chan “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
Jiayue Huang / USA Today:
Brian Williams returns to air on MSNBC Tuesday for Pope coverage  —  Broadcaster Brian Williams will return to the air Tuesday, easing into a far less prominent but familiar position of anchoring breaking news.  —  The former chief anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NBC built NewsConnect, an internal newsroom collaboration platform which allows employees to share information and story updates  —  Working together: How NBC built a new tool to improve collaboration across its newsrooms  —  Across all of its platforms, in both digital and broadcast …
Discussion: @vivian, @dubois and @mathewi
Institute for Nonprofit News:
Former Associated Press senior vice-president Sue Cross announced as CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)  —  Digital Innovator, Former News Executive Sue Cross to Lead INN  —  Encino, Calif., Sept. 21, 2015 - The Institute for Nonprofit News announced today the selection …
Discussion: Nieman Lab, @denisemalan, @inn and @aschweig
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Daily Show hires former Circa EIC Anthony De Rosa  —  When “The Daily Show” begins its push to spread comedic news beyond its once-a-day television show this fall, it'll have help from a real newsman: Anthony De Rosa, the former editor in chief of the mobile news startup Circa.
Discussion: @antderosa and Soup
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
US Copyright Office says that Pandora's pact with Merlin can be used to calculate US royalties for independent musicians  —  Pandora wins round at U.S. Copyright Office  —  Pandora Media Inc said on Monday it was pleased that the U.S. Copyright Office agreed that the company's pact with Merlin Network …
Paul Bisceglio / Pacific Standard:
Q&A with Tom Burke, who made a business out of broadcasting his video game playing on Twitch  —  The Business of Playing Video Games  —  Every so often, Tom Burke wakes up and finds that someone has given him $1,000 for playing video games.  He gets smaller amounts many times a day …
Discussion: @mathewi and @pacificstand
Dan Archer / Ars Technica:
Unclear App Store guidelines are restricting experiments with Virtual Reality and journalism  —  When journalism, virtual reality, and unclear App Store guidelines collide  —  A first-person tale of what happens when app gatekeepers rule on journalism.
Discussion: Medium
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
VR content startup Jaunt raises $65M from Disney, other investors  —  Disney Backs Jaunt's $65M ‘B’ Round  —  VR Content Startup Has Raised $100M-Plus  —  Jaunt, a startup that specializes in virtual reality content, said it has netted a $65 million B found led by new investors The Walt Disney Company …
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter and Time Warner Cable shareholders approve merger, which still needs regulatory approval
Discussion: Variety and Reuters
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Periscope, conceived in Turkey, is taking off there as a reaction to ineffective mainstream media
Discussion: @erhanerdogan
Paul John Scott / postbulletin.com:
Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis Star Tribune form exclusive sponsored content deal with Mayo providing online and print graphics and “health content”
Discussion: @charlesornstein
Mario Garcia / Poynter:
The Washington Post's new website uses a print-inspired hierarchy to capture story importance
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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