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12:20 AM ET, October 7, 2015

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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.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter Moments Are Like Snapchat's Live Stories, Except They're on Twitter  —  Let's say you're a person who doesn't care about Twitter's stock price, org chart or MAU growth.  What's the best way to describe “Moments,” the new multimedia feature the company launched today?  —  It's like Snapchat's Live Stories.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Twitter releases editorial guidelines for Moments, stating rules to keep curators free from bias and conflicts of interest
Discussion: Twitter and Poynter
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Increasing concerns about Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone's health raise succession questions; seven-person trust will control Viacom and CBS after his death  —  Battle Brews Atop Media Giant Viacom  —  Concern about health of Chairman Sumner Redstone sparks questions over who will succeed him
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu Gets ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ Other Viacom Shows Exclusively in Major New Pact  —  Hulu has doubled the amount of content it is licensing from Viacom, with an expanded pact giving the Internet TV service exclusive subscription VOD rights to all past and future seasons of Comedy Central's …
Ben Wolford / Medium:
Latterly, a small, ad-free digital magazine for narrative international reporting, buys travel-oriented Compass Cultura, which had a similar business model  —  Notes on the world's tiniest media empire  —  How Latterly purchased Compass Cultura  —  I remember where I was when Compass Cultura was born.
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 …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Bauer Media diversifies with investment into Dabbl, a new e-commerce voucher product  —  Bauer scales local product nationwide with e-commerce voucher site  —  Bauer Media last week announced a new e-commerce platform, Dabbl, as part of its ongoing investment into digital products.
Chris Littmann / Sporting News:
ESPN anchor says network pulling sponsored daily fantasy sports segments after accusations that fantasy sports firms' employees bet with inside information  —  ESPN pulling sponsored daily fantasy sports segments from programming  —  If you're sick of being bombarded by daily fantasy sports content …
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
Discussion: @jeffjarvis
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
BBC News Inks Yahoo Video-Distribution Deal for North America
Discussion: LostRemote and bbc.co.uk
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Lou Ferrara, vice president and managing editor of the Associated Press, is leaving for another job, yet to be announced
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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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
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
Los Angeles Times:
Bankruptcy judge backs Relativity Media plan to sell TV assets to creditors