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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Reddit launches Upvoted, a standalone news site free of comments and voting; editorial team will curate and elaborate on content from Reddit — No comments allowed on Reddit's new news site ‘Upvoted’ — Reddit's got problems. It can be a hotbed of hostility and harassment—even for loyal users.
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Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Behind Steve Huffman's return to Reddit as CEO following the moderator revolt and Ellen Pao's departure — Inside Reddit's Plan to Recover From Its Epic Meltdown — It began on the Thursday night that much of Reddit—the eleventh biggest site on the American Internet …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
News organizations including BuzzFeed, The New York Times and The Washington Post have signed up to use Twitter's new product, Moments — Twitter unveils its own news digests, and some news orgs are participating — Twitter has always been a place to find out what's going on in the world, with a little help from the crowd.
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Madhu Muthukumar / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter launches Moments, formerly Project Lightning, its event-based curation of tweets, videos, and images, on iOS, Android, and desktop web — Moments, the best of Twitter in an instant — When you open Twitter today you'll see something new: Moments, the best of what's happening on Twitter in an instant.
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Dow Jones to launch free mobile-only news app, will aggregate content from WSJ, Financial News, and The Times; will compete with Financial Times — WSJ owner takes battle to FT with City news app — Mobile service featuring financial stories from the Times and Wall Street Journal to be free at launch
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Jared Newman / Fast Company:
Roku announces Roku 4 with 4K, voice search, and remote locator, and OS 7 with bookmarking and universal search; pre-order now, available Oct. for $130 — Roku Is Solving The Most Frustrating Thing About Streaming TV Boxes — Tell me if this sounds familiar: You're browsing around on a Roku …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NYT creates separate editorial group for production of print edition — Citing a desire to break free from the legacy of the print deadlines, The New York Times on Tuesday announced the creation of a centralized desk responsible for putting out the daily print edition.
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Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Analyst suggests that newspapers should sell off printing presses, buy tablets for subscribers and adopt “Netflix of news” business model — How one newspaper company can save itself by giving away free iPads and becoming the ‘Netflix of news’ — As print media companies …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Major TV networks sign onto freelancer safety compact — Several of America's major television news networks have joined a coalition of news organizations that have signed their names to a set of best practices for protecting freelance journalists who work for them.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Lou Ferrara, vice president and managing editor of the Associated Press, is leaving for another job, yet to be announced — Lou Ferrara to leave The Associated Press — Lou Ferrara, vice president and managing editor of The Associated Press, is leaving the newswire for a job …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror explores plan to stop readers using ad-blocking software — Dominic Ponsford's blog - — Trinity Mirror is reportedly exploring ways of banning its website readers from using ad-blocking software on iPhones and iPads. — The move, by the biggest publisher of regional newspapers …
Derek Mead / Motherboard:
Vice Media's Motherboard is switching off comments, adds letters to the editor section — We're Replacing Comments with Something Better — As a kid, whenever I'd get some BMX or car magazine in the mail, I'd always dive in first to the letters to the editor.
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