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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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Guardian, The Verge, Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, SlashGear, The Next Web, Poynter, Gizmodo, @glennf, VentureBeat, @cschweitz, VentureBeat and @pierce
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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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@buzzfeedben and @marcuswohlsen


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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Forbes, Ad Age, VentureBeat, WWD, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ZDNet, Globe and Mail, Re/code, Variety, Engadget, Poynter, Mashable, Adweek, The Next Web and AdExchanger
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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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The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, MacRumors, SlashGear, @brianstelter, 9to5Mac, @antderosa, @bohan, @brianstelter, CNET, SiliconBeat, @magicandrew, @jess and Android Central


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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@jeffjarvis


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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FishbowlNY, @sarahevonne, @ashfurrow, @mrdoncarpenter, @maxmgardner, @mathewi, Techdirt, Fortune, @prisonplanet, @ejpfauth, @tha_rami, @lainnafader and @dangillmor


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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Home Media Magazine, Variety, @onejarednewman, stuff.tv, Wired, Wall Street Journal, TechnoBuffalo, TechRadar.com, Bloomberg Business, Gizmodo, CNET, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Motherboard, Fast Company, The Verge, Tech Insider, USA Today, Tom's Guide, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica and SlashGear


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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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 …


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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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today and Deadline


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 …


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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Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and Variety