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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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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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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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Q&A with Boston Globe election reporter James Pindell on digital-first reporting, using platforms, and staying online — James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe's election coverage to everyone by being everywhere — In the past five days, Boston Globe political reporter …


John Dickerson, Molded by News Legends, Hones His Skills at CBS — WASHINGTON — By the standards of Sunday morning news shows, the handoff of the anchor's position on “Face the Nation” on CBS was really quite peaceful. — A few days after the longtime anchor Bob Schieffer announced …
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@koblin, @saletan and @brianstelter


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 …
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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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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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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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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 …

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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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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