Mediagazer: iHeartMedia releases iHeartRadio Family standalone Android and iOS apps with Build-A-Bear, offers live radio and curated playlists for 4-11 year-olds (KC Ifeanyi/Fast Company)

3:50 PM ET, November 11, 2015

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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 …

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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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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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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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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Ilaria Maria Sala / Guardian:

Four Hong Kong publishers known for books critical of Chinese regime missing — Rights groups raise alarm for Gui Haiming, last seen travelling to Thailand, Lu Bo and Zhang Zhiping, who headed to China, and missing Lin Rongji — A group of Hong Kong booksellers specialising …

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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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Agence France-Presse:

Turkey criticised over media freedoms and judicial independence in EU report — Verdict on country's candidacy to join bloc highlights fears over ‘rule of law and fundamental rights’ under newly re-elected Erdoan — The EU has accused Turkey of backsliding on the rule of law …

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Tyler Kingkade / The Huffington Post:

University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click apologizes for her behavior after watching video of herself — Mizzou Prof Issues Apology For Confrontation With Reporters — A viral video shows her attempting to physically prevent journalists from accessing activists.

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

The inside story of Business Insider's $442 million sale to Axel Springer — In 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis, Business Insider was running low on cash. — Over the prior year, the stock market had tanked as the economy plunged into the deepest recession since the Great Depression.

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