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11:55 PM ET, February 12, 2016

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Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Apple is backing Vital Signs, a six-episode scripted television series starring Dr. Dre, likely to be distributed via Apple Music  —  Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series (Exclusive)  —  ‘Vital Signs,’ the technology giant's inaugural original …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
ESI Media confirms Independent on Sunday to cease printing and Independent to go digital-only in late March; Johnston Press buys i for £24M  —  Independent newspapers closed, but will continue online, after i sale to Johnston Press  —  The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers are to close, it has been confirmed.
Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, The Independent, Telegraph, The Drum, Guardian, One Man & His Blog, FishbowlNY, BuzzFeed, Press Gazette, Complete Music Update, Press Gazette, World News Publishing Focus …, Editor & Publisher, @tedjeory, The Hindu, Hollywood Reporter, DW.COM, Reuters, The New York Observer, @pennyred, National Union of Journalists, Business Insider, @mattkmoore, campaignlive.co.uk, Guardian, @emdunks, Financial Times, @andrewholmes82, New York Magazine, Featured Articles, Fortune, Guardian, New York Times, @joelmgunter, @johngapper, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, @binkybaxter1, @johngapper, Bookseller News, WWD, CNNMoney, Coffee House, Coffee House, Forbes, Reuters, Guardian, Bloomberg Business, PRWeek, UK - The Huffington Post, Her.ie, TheJournal.ie, Channel 4 News, Daily Express, @marksweney, The Next Web, @marksweney, Politico, @rhiannonlucyc, More About Advertising, RT, Metro.co.uk, Digital Spy, Mediatel, USA Today, campaignlive.co.uk, The Irish Times, Sky News, RTÉ, New Statesman, Financial Times, @adamsherwin10, @pressgazette, RAPPLER, @shearmanm, @youngvulgarian, Life Style Extra, News, Prolific North, Gizmodo UK, London Evening Standard, Talking New Media, Business Insider Australia, International Business Times, Dailystar.co.uk, City A.M., International Business Times, Daily Mail, UK - The Huffington Post, @joelmgunter, @henrymance, BBC, @ajreid, Telegraph, @ajreid, @rorygallivan, @rossalynwarren, @elizabday, Guido Fawkes, HoldTheFrontPage, The Drum, Prolific North, International Business Times, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, Guardian, Press Gazette, campaignlive.co.uk, Reuters and Press Gazette
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
i to expand into Northern Ireland, launch a new website, and hire more than 30 staff
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
Re/code:
Sources: as early as May, Snapchat will let you subscribe to Discover publishers, ensuring their content always appears on your Stories page  —  Snapchat Wants to Let Users Subscribe to Their Favorite ‘Discover’ Publishers  —  Snapchat is working on new plans to boost traffic to the publishers that use its “Discover” platform.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Snapchat uses a team of about six journalists to add context to live stories of the presidential campaign  —  Snapchat Bets Big on Quick-Fire Approach to Campaign Coverage  —  BEDFORD, N.H. — Standing toward the back of the room at a Jeb Bush campaign rally here last week, Peter Hamby …
Discussion: @smithbm12 and @macloo
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
YouTube buys BandPage to boost direct-to-fan features  —  “We are very excited to announce that BandPage is joining YouTube, a move which dramatically accelerates our shared goal of helping musicians everywhere thrive,” announced BandPage in a blog post.  —  “BandPage is dedicated …
Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure  —  Meet the Robin Hood of Science  —  The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Discussion: ScienceAlert and The Atlantic
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times collaborates with This American Life on a special investigative report  —  Last August, a college student named Alan Pean was Tasered and shot in the chest by two security guards shortly after seeking treatment for a psychotic episode at a Houston hospital.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent launches $4.95 annual subscription to remove ads from uTorrent  —  BitTorrent has unveiled a new annual subscription option that removes ads from the torrent-streaming service.  The launch follows a short beta period, and the option — priced at a modest $4.95 per year …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
SoundCloud files financial results showing $44.27M loss in 2014 with revenue of $19.7M; board forecasts it will need more capital investment in 2016  —  SoundCloud financial results show €39.1m loss in 2014  —  SoundCloud's revenues rose 54% to €17.4m in 2014 …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Mount St. Mary's College offers to reinstate newspaper adviser Ed Egan; faculty votes to ask college president to resign  —  Mount St. Mary's faculty asks president to resign by Monday morning  —  Amid a national controversy over academic freedom, the faculty of Mount St. Mary's University …
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Eddy Cue says Apple has 11M+ Apple Music subs and 782M iCloud users, and Craig Federighi addresses complaints of bugs in Apple apps on John Gruber's podcast  —  Apple Music now has over 11 million subscribers  —  Apple senior vice presidents Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue appeared on John Gruber's podcast …
 
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Ed Sherman / Poynter:
Inside Yahoo's new NBA site The Vertical with Woj, which focuses on scoops and analysis to gain readers
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Inside Business Insider Deutschland as it expands original coverage and exchanges content with other Axel Springer publications
The Open Notebook:
Study finds bylines on science stories equally split among male and female journalists, but longer pieces mostly penned by men
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Following latest release of his emails by Gawker, Clinton press aide Philippe Reines accuses Washington DC media and Erik Wemple of hypocrisy
Discussion: New Republic
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How the presidential campaign looks through the eyes of a foreign journalist
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
UK publishers remain skeptical of micropayments despite various European efforts
Discussion: @digiday
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How news organizations like National Geographic, Mashable, New York Times, and Vox are experimenting with vertical video for mobile phones
Ashley Armstrong / Telegraph:
Guardian sends staff a letter detailing 20% reduction of costs, may consider compulsory layoffs