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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 …
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Fortune, TechCrunch, Publishers Weekly, Forbes, CNET, Engadget, New York Times, @pmarca, The Verge, @laurahazardowen, @sdkstl, The Next Web, Business Insider, @mikeisaac and @kaetrin67
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
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The A.V. Club, Chicago Business, Splitsider, FishbowlNY and @johnghendy
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.
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The Wrap, FishbowlNY, JIMROMENESKO.COM, LA Observed, @ennisnyt and The Huffington Post
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.”
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Forbes, BREITBART.COM, SlashGear, Engadget, Gawker, Motherboard, BuzzFeed, Guardian, Mashable, Business Insider, Boing Boing, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge and The Week
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 …
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Broadcasting & Cable, New York Times, Deadline, Variety and International Business Times
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 …
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 …
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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.
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@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 …
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@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.
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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 …