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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, Hulu, and Techmeme — Here's Notify, Facebook's New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers — Facebook is already dominating peoples' phone time …
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Facebook, App Store, @whatthebit, @pkafka, VentureBeat, Washington Post, The Verge, Forbes, Pocket-lint, Guardian, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Gigaom, CNNMoney, BuzzFeed, mUmBRELLA, Refinery29, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Tubefilter, Fortune, App Advice, SocialTimes, Computerworld, New York Times, Fast Company, Adweek, Digiday, PhoneDog, TrustedReviews, The Huffington Post, Motherboard, Reuters, CNET, E! Online, Variety, Mashable, VentureBeat, Tech Insider and TechCrunch
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
Sources share the inside story of the Lerer family's The Dodo, with low morale, meddling family members as editors, and purchased Facebook traffic — How an Animal Lover Turned Her Father's Investment Into The Dodo, a Money-Burning Website With a Miserable Staff
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@simonowens, @samfbiddle, @kdbyproxy, @jackmirkinson, @ericgeller, @lpolgreen, @seanmcelwee and @ryanj899
Dave McNary / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger Tapped by Chargers, Raiders for L.A. Football Stadium Project — Walt Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger has been selected by the National Football League's San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to head their proposed stadium project in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson.
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The Wrap, ESPN, Los Angeles Times, Deadline and Broadcasting & Cable
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Student journalists at University of Missouri talk about covering a local story that has become national — How student journalists at Mizzou are telling a local story that's become national — Missourian newsroom. Photo by David Rees/Missouri School of Journalism
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MMAjunkie, @commlibraryuiuc, @amyfiscus, @katieyaeger and Business Insider
Judah Robinson / The Huffington Post:
Univision, The Atlantic To Launch Spanish-Language CityLab Latino — The site is slated to launch on Univision.com in early 2016.
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CityLab, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Folio and Media Wire Daily
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
HarperCollin's HarperOne division starts digital-first fiction imprint, HarperLegend, manuscripts can be submitted online today — HarperOne Starts Digital-First Fiction Imprint — HarperCollins's HarperOne division has launched a new digital-first imprint, HarperLegend.
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Digital Book World, TeleRead and GalleyCat
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: publishers struggle to extract as much ad revenue from Facebook's Instant Articles as they do from their own sites; Facebook mulls changes to ad rules — Facebook Mulls Ad Changes for Instant Articles After Publisher Pushback — Publishers encountered challenges because of restrictions imposed by the social network
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@martinsfp, @sims and @abrams
TodaysZaman:
Turkish police raid printing plant of Today's Zaman over claims it was printing opposition newspaper Ozgur Bugun, labeled propaganda by government — Police raid Zaman daily headquarters over claims of printing Özgür Bugün — Police arrived at the headquarters of the Zaman daily …
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@todayszamancom, @todayszamancom, TodaysZaman and Mashable
Andrew Russell / Time Warner Cable Untangled:
Time Warner Cable confirms TWC TV trial in NYC area, gives participants Roku 3 to access 300+ live TV channels and 20K+ on demand programs — Time Warner Cable Launches TWC TV® Roku Trial in NYC — The home screen for the TWC TV Roku Trial enables customers to easily navigate between live TV …
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DSLreports, Variety, BGR and Consumerist
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Refinery29 doesn't want to be “CNN for women,” but it's finding new paths into hard news — Refinery29 is 10 years old. And as the site expands, one of the things it's keeping in mind is that age is only a number. — The site is generally perceived as being aimed at millennial women — and it is, kind of.
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@lmoses, The Business of Fashion and @laurahazardowen
KC Ifeanyi / Fast Company:
iHeartMedia releases iHeartRadio Family standalone Android and iOS apps with Build-A-Bear, offers live radio and curated playlists for 4-11 year-olds — The iHeartRadio Family App Is Here, With Help From 30 Kids And A “Bug Bash” — Born from a hackathon, iHeartMedia unveils the brand's first-ever app extension.
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Forbes, SocialTimes, Radio Ink Magazine, BroadwayWorld.com, radioworld.com, Billboard, Business Wire, AllAccess.com, AllAccess.com and TechCrunch
Tom Odula / Associated Press:
Kenyan newspaper editor questioned and released over source on security spending — NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A leading Kenyan newspaper said Tuesday its parliamentary editor was taken in for questioning and then released over a story on how the security ministry spent $3.8 million in a day.
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