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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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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Bookstore sales rose 2.5% to $11.17B in 2015, the first increase since 2007 — After Eight Year Slump, 2015 Bookstore Sales Rise — Bookstores sales rose 2.5% in 2015, marking the first time since 2007 that sales in the sector were up. According to preliminary figures released …
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New York Times and CNNMoney
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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 …
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@niemanlab
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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@metlandia, @jayrosen_nyu, @ivovegter, @quasilocal, Fusion, @tumblrisms and The Atlantic
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Copyright lawyer uses DMCA to try to take down copy of unflattering article about himself — Embattled copyright lawyer uses DMCA to remove article about himself — Marc Randazza tells Wordpress that the unflattering story “is not fair use.” — Well-known copyright lawyer Marc Randazza used …
John Koblin / New York Times:
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
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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@nickconfessore, @katyturnbc, @mlcalderone, @meetthepress, @jacquellenac, @halliejackson and @kristindonnelly
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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@marklittlenews, Thanks:@refsrc
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 …
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Android Police, The BandPage Blog, Forbes, @silvermansays, @joshconstine, FACT Magazine, TechCrunch, hypebot, @lindseyfarwell, @bandpage, RAIN News, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Variety and The Next Web
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
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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The Daily Caller, The TickerThe Ticker, CBS News and Business Insider Australia
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 …
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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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, @sarahcuda 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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@robsaliterman, @smithbm12 and @macloo
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