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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 …
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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.
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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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Engadget, @sarahcuda, Business Insider and @pkafka
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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
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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.
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ScienceAlert and The Atlantic
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 …
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.
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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 …
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The Official µTorrent Blog, TorrentFreak, The Tech Portal, Engadget and Ubergizmo
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 …
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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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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
White journalists kicked out of “Concerned Town Hall” at University of Missouri; meeting moves to another location when one declines to leave — At 'students of color'-only Mizzou activism meeting, white journalists kicked out — A “Concerned Town Hall” meeting advertised to …
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@gregpiper, @kodacohen, Fox News and @schierbecker
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Behind the numbers of Tribune Publishing's stalking-horse bid for the bankrupt Orange County Register — Santa Ana showdown: Tribune's bid for Southern California — Today, in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the Orange County Register …
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@raju and Orange County Register
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
New report from Local News Lab in New Jersey documents lessons on how to strengthen local newsrooms — A new report from Dodge says foundations wanting to support journalism should be more agile — In June 2014, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation launched the Local News Lab …
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@wearehearken, @jcstearns, @mollydeaguiar and The Local News Lab
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