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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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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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Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:
At Twitter, problems facing Jack Dorsey include user retention, online abuse
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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
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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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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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Re/code:
Sources: Pandora close to buying ticketing agency TicketFly for $450M in cash and stock — Pandora Appears Close to a $450 Million Deal for Ticketfly — Pandora appears close to a deal to buy Ticketfly, a ticketing agency that specializes in smaller venues, for around $450 million.
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.
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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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Walt Disney Co. owned cable network ABC Family to be renamed Freeform beginning 2016 — ABC Family Changing Name to Freeform — Disney network aims to attract more young viewers turned off by wholesome image — Another well-known cable network name is being disowned.
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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Agence France-Presse:
Freed Canadian Jazeera journalist Fahmy leaves Egypt — Cairo (AFP) - Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian journalist with Al-Jazeera television freed from an Egyptian jail last month after a presidential pardon for broadcasting “false” news, announced Tuesday he was leaving the country.
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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 …
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