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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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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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Mattie Kahn / ELLE:
Meet the girls on the bus: reporters on the campaign trail for NBC in 2016 are overwhelmingly women — At NBC News, Women Are Telling the Stories — This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016 — The cameras have stopped rolling in the Des Moines café that Andrea Mitchell has turned …
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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, The Tech Portal, TorrentFreak, Engadget and Ubergizmo
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 …
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
China's young reporters give up on journalism: 'You can't write what you want' — The ever greater constraints placed on news reporting by Xi Jinping mean many Chinese journalists see no point in pursuing a media career — hen a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008 …
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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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
i to expand into Northern Ireland, launch a new website, and hire more than 30 staff
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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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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
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Global expansion helps The New York Times strengthen its reporting around the world and expand potential readers and revenue streams — Is Global Expansion Good for Times Readers? — If all goes well for The Times in its latest incarnation — a Spanish-language site …
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 — Philippe Reines rips Beltway media, Erik Wemple Blog for ‘hypocrisy’ — Earlier this week, Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter highlighted a new set …
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The Daily Caller, @froomkin, @jaketapper and New Republic
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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New York Times and This American Life Updates
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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@schierbecker, @gregpiper, @kodacohen and Fox News
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