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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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New York Times, Ad Age, Adweek, FishbowlNY, Refinery29, Globe and Mail, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, Forbes, ZDNet, @antderosa, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, @fedecherubini, @niemanlab, Mashable, WWD, The Next Web and AdExchanger
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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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Net Worked, Re/code, The Verge, Digiday, The New York Observer, SocialTimes, BetaNews, SportsBusiness Daily, MacStories, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, VatorNews, Telegraph, Tech Insider, The Drum, Guardian, TechCrunch, @magicandrew, Neowin, CNET, @brianstelter, 9to5Mac, Silicon Republic, SiliconBeat, @bohan, Gizmodo, @antderosa, @jess, @digidave, @gettyimages, @bychrismarch, @mwandf, SlashGear, @brianstelter, MacRumors, Android Central, Washington Post and all
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Twitter releases editorial guidelines for Moments, stating rules to keep curators free from bias and conflicts of interest — Twitter Moments Have Their Own Set Of Guidelines and Principles — Along with the release of its new feature, Moments, Twitter shared a set of guidelines …
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Poynter
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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Adweek, reddit, Mashable, Nieman Lab, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Re/code, Gizmodo, InvestorPlace, The Verge, @kadhimshubber, Business Insider, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, @jasonabbruzzese, Techdirt, @jwherrman, Engadget, @mims, @benjilanyado, Guardian, MCV: Home Stream, SlashGear, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, WordPress.com VIP, @glennf, The Next Web, @pierce and @cschweitz
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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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@jeffjarvis
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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The New York Times Company, @jayrosen_nyu and @ckrewson
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Major TV networks, including CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS, sign onto Global Safety Principles and Practices, a list of guidelines on safety for freelancers — Major TV networks sign onto freelancer safety compact — Several of America's major television news networks have joined a coalition …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera America staff vote in favor of unionization, 32 for, 5 against, will be represented by NewsGuild of New York — Al Jazeera America Digital Journalists Vote To Unionize — Another media company joins the wave of labor organizing.
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FishbowlNY, Guardian and Poynter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BBC News Inks Yahoo Video-Distribution Deal for North America — BBC News digital-video dispatches will be available to Yahoo users in the U.S. and Canada starting this month, under a new syndication pact between the two. — Content under deal will focus on BBC News' short-form video content …
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LostRemote and bbc.co.uk
Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:
At Twitter, problems facing Jack Dorsey include user retention, online abuse — The Three Biggest Challenges Facing Jack Dorsey at Twitter — The new “permanent CEO” inherits a social network with stagnating growth, an arguably overpriced stock, and vitriolic content that's turning off some high-profile users.
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@karenmcgrane, Re/code, @adambain, Poynter and TechCrunch
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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FishbowlNY
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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@jbenton
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple approves an app, Been Choice, that blocks ads in native apps through its VPN content-removal service, offers rewards to users that share behavioral data — Apple Approves An App That Blocks Ads In Native Apps, Including Apple News — It's unclear if Apple is setting a precedent …
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Fortune and Business Insider