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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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App Store, Facebook, @whatthebit, @pkafka, Adweek, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, VentureBeat, Tech Times, Sporting News, Guardian, mUmBRELLA, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Tubefilter, App Advice, ZDNet, Computerworld, CNNMoney, Fortune, Business Insider, SocialTimes, Fast Company, Refinery29, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Gigaom, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Digiday, PhoneDog, TrustedReviews, The Huffington Post, Motherboard, Reuters, CNET, E! Online, Variety, 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
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
David Harris / Boston Business Journal:
Comcast launches Stream, its $15/month streaming service in Greater Boston; available only for Xfinity customers, and only within subscribers home — Comcast launches standalone streaming service in Boston area, but there's a catch — Comcast said Wednesday that its new $15-per-month …
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PR Newswire, Multichannel News, FierceCable, DSLreports, The Verge, BetaBoston, Multichannel News and The Next Web
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. — Hoping to tap into the growing Latino media market, Univision Digital and The Atlantic announced Tuesday they would partner to launch CityLab Latino …
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CityLab, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, Folio and Media Wire Daily
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, Los Angeles Times, ESPN, 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
New York Times:
New York attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel games constitute illegal gambling under state law, orders them to stop accepting bets in New York — Attorney General Tells Daily Fantasy Sports to Stop Taking Bets in New York — The New York State attorney general on Tuesday ordered …
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Adweek, Forbes, FanDuel Newsroom, Re/code, ag.ny.gov, ESPN, @billfrezza, Wall Street Journal, Techdirt, VatorNews, Inc.com, Ad Age, Gothamist, @radleybalko, Benzinga, Fortune, UPROXX, Bloomberg View, @nytsports, DraftKings Playbook, Forbes, The Daily Caller, NY1 News, Fast Company, Forbes, ABC News, ThinkProgress, @nytimes, Broadcasting & Cable, Tech Times, Awful Announcing, Bloomberg Business, AM New York, bizjournals, ABC News, TechCrunch, FRONTLINE, Bleacher Report, Washington Post, SBNation.com, Newsday, New York Daily News, New York Post, Washington Times, TIME, Slate, CBS News, Re/code, Deadline, Mediaite, The Next Web, Consumerist, Tech Insider, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune, Engadget, ProFootballTalk, BostonGlobe.com, Deadspin, USA Today, NBC News, The Verge, The Big Lead and Wall Street Journal
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times hopes its first virtual reality film, The Displaced, plus mass distribution of Google Cardboard kick off greater VR adoption — The New York Times hopes its first virtual reality film, “The Displaced,” kicks off mass adoption of VR — “This is probably …
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The New York Times Company and TOWCenter
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Verge's car coverage now drives as much as 30 percent of its traffic — Since launching four years ago, The Verge has come to mean more than just consumer tech as it's extended its coverage to science, movies and music. But the Vox Media vertical has found a ready audience in covering …
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
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, TodaysZaman, @todayszamancom and Mashable