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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, Refinery29, Adweek, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, Engadget, Poynter, Variety, FishbowlNY, Forbes, WWD, @jayrosen_nyu, @antderosa, @fedecherubini, @niemanlab and Mashable
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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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The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, SportsBusiness Daily, MacStories, VatorNews, BetaNews, @brianstelter, WebProNews, Net Worked, @antderosa, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Android Police, @brianstelter, SocialTimes, Telegraph, The New York Observer, Neowin, Guardian, Silicon Republic, The Drum, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Digiday, 9to5Mac, CNET, SiliconBeat, Tech Insider, TechCrunch, @digidave, SlashGear, @gettyimages, all, Washington Post, Android Central, @bychrismarch, @mwandf, @bohan, @magicandrew and @jess
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.
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Re/code, @brianstelter, @jank0, TechCrunch and App Advice
Emily Nussbaum / New Yorker:
As TV evolves, viewers struggle with whether to embrace or resist its commercialism — The Price Is Right — Ever since the finale of “Mad Men,” I've been meditating on its audacious last image. Don Draper, sitting cross-legged and purring “Ommmm,” is achieving inner peace at an Esalen-like retreat.
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The Awl, @kbandersen, @freddiedeboer, @pomeranian99, @michele866 and @sethdmichaels
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, @dannysullivan, @jayrosen_nyu and @ckrewson
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
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New York Times, @joshsternberg, @pkafka, @jbflint, @keachhagey, @keachhagey, @asharma, @edmundlee and @richbtig
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 …
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Deadline, Multichannel News, CNNMoney, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear and FierceCable
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
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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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Mashable, Adweek, Nieman Lab, The Content Strategist, Gizmodo, Upvoted, VentureBeat, New York Magazine, Techdirt, The Verge, InvestorPlace, MCV: Home Stream, Guardian, Business Insider, @kadhimshubber, @mims, @jwherrman, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, @jasonabbruzzese, @benjilanyado, SlashGear, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, The Next Web, @glennf, @pierce and @cschweitz
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