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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Newsletter theSkimm introduces new subscription service, Skimm Ahead, an iPhone app that costs $2.99 a month, adds event reminders to your calendar — Email Newsletter Startup theSkimm Rolls Out Paid Subscription Product — New iPhone app will automatically place big news and cultural events on people's digital calendars
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New York Times:
How media and entertainment companies are expanding into VR, through investment in VR startups and VR-based news projects — Virtual Reality Lures Media Companies to a New Frontier — Media and entertainment companies want to help shape the next entertainment platform: virtual reality.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed — HBO gets into VR with investment in OTOY — HBO is getting into virtual reality, too. Amid the ongoing craze for VR videos, which has seen streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu rolling …
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Home Media Magazine, OTOY and Engadget
The Pulitzer Prizes:
Full list of 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism — 2016 Pulitzer Prizes — Public Service Associated Press For an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.
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Poynter, Press Gazette, @overdrivelibs, @nakashimae, @dorothyeroberts, @derekbmiller, USA Today, @endeavoringe, LA Observed, @emilynussbaum, bookforum.com, @msf_sea, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, @markkatches, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, @photojournalism, Publishers LunchPublishers …, Washington Post, The Week, Media Nation, Washington Post, Hit & Run, @billdeblasio, @jayrosen_nyu, @dmunday, @senfeinstein, @samseaborn, @jillfilipovic, @rbbrenner, @moorehn, @profstewartrk, @googlenewslab, @mrdanzak, @emersongreg, @wsjforero, @michaeldweiss, @jbsgreenberg, ProPublica, The FADER, Bwog, New York Magazine, NPR, @pulitzerprize, @newyorker, The Wrap, @gabrieldance, LA Observed, Associated Press, @peterbakernyt, @juliakmarsh, @fmanjoo and New York Times
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New Yorker Is the First Magazine to Win a Pulitzer — One year after the Pulitzer Prizes opened up some categories to magazines, The New Yorker became the first title to earn the honor. And, of course, being The New Yorker, it did so with pizazz — the magazine won two Pulitzers.
Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
New York Observer's food critic Joshua David Stein resigns, following its endorsement of Trump — When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign — I was the restaurant critic. I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht.
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Mediaite, FishbowlNY, @jayrosen_nyu, @brianstelter, @moorehn, @mlcalderone, @jayrayner1, Jezebel, @peterfeld and Politico
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
NPR, This American Life, and HBO among Peabody Award winners — ‘Real Sports,’ ‘This American Life’ Among Peabody Awards Winners … “This American Life's” exploration of desegregation and HBO's “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel's” investigation of the ivory trade are among the winners …
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The Peabody Awards, The Wrap, NPR, TVSpy, Broadcasting & Cable, @gwenifill, @markmemmottnpr and Current
David Pierce / Wired:
Google launches podcast section in Google Play Music for US users on Android and the web — Google Play Will Now Soundtrack Your Life With Podcasts — A decade after their inception, podcasts are hitting the mainstream. You can argue about why (everyone does), but the numbers don't lie.
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Official Android Blog, Computerworld, @jrraphael, @pierce, Billboard, RAIN News, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, GeekWire, Ars Technica UK, VentureBeat and ZDNet
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix promises 100 hours of HDR programming by August, more by 2017 — Netflix just announced plans to introduce more high dynamic range (HDR)-quality videos to its library this year. — Though we already knew Netflix had big plans on the HDR front and that it had recently upgraded the first season of …
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Netflix Media Center, Forbes, Variety and The Verge
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn — Yahoo bidders are few and far between, but include Verizon, TPG and a gang of exes — As Yahoo prepares to release what is widely expected …
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Business Insider, @danprimack and DSLreports
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Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Sources: Apple held secret talks with A-listers at Sundance and in Los Angeles, plans to move into original content alongside Facebook, YouTube, and Alibaba — Apple, Facebook, Google, and Alibaba Take Hollywood — Since Netflix and Amazon proved that outsiders can thrive in entertainment …
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Fortune, Vanity Fair, BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Tech Insider
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
Source: News Corp files complaint to European Commission accusing Google of leveraging its dominance in search for news articles — News Corp Files Formal Complaint to European Commission over Google — U.S. tech giant accused of leveraging its dominance in the search for news articles
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Fortune, Bloomberg, The Stack, The Times & The Sunday Times, Computerworld, Reuters, Ars Technica UK and Wall Street Journal
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