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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Reddit to launch voting and comment free news site Upvoted with editorial team curating/creating content that will be added to Reddit forum for voting, comments — 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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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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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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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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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 …
Los Angeles Times:
Lionsgate and Starz in advanced merger talks, sources say — Movie and television studio Lionsgate cemented its mini-major status in Hollywood with “The Hunger Games,” and now its appetite is being tested. — The Santa Monica studio is in advanced talks to merge with movie channel Starz …
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
The Economist deputy editor Tom Standage on mobile, bundled subscriptions, and why display ads are unsustainable as a business model — Print is ‘just another device’ at The Economist — The weekly publication turned 172 years old in September. Deputy editor Tom Standage explains …
Los Angeles Times:
Bankruptcy judge backs Relativity Media plan to sell TV assets to creditors — A bankruptcy judge Monday gave preliminary approval to a plan to sell the television assets of Relativity Media to a group of secured creditors while the company's flamboyant founder, Ryan Kavanaugh, tries to reorganize the rest of Relativity.
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