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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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Nieman Lab, @s_m_i, TechCrunch, Mashable, Business Insider, Vogue, App Store, FishbowlNY, @theskimm and @alexandernl
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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OTOY, Home Media Magazine and Engadget
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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@jayrosen_nyu, @brianstelter, @moorehn, @mlcalderone, @jayrayner1, Jezebel, @peterfeld, Mediaite, FishbowlNY and Politico
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The founder of a small Florida newspaper died days before its first Pulitzer win — There were no big celebrations today in the Charlotte Sun's newsroom, no champagne, no live-tweeting. — Today marked the first Pulitzer win for the Florida newspaper and for Editor John Hackworth.
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The Rural Blog, @emilynussbaum, @fmanjoo, @gabrieldance, @kevinroose and @wesleylowery
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New Yorker Is the First Magazine to Win a Pulitzer
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MinOnline, USA Today and Washington Post
The Pulitzer Prizes:
Full list of 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism
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Los Angeles Times, Press Gazette, @overdrivelibs, USA Today, @endeavoringe, LA Observed, @dorothyeroberts, @nakashimae, @derekbmiller, bookforum.com, @msf_sea, New York Times, Washington Post, Business Insider, @markkatches, The Week, Bwog, @photojournalism, Publishers LunchPublishers …, @peterbakernyt, Media Nation, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, The FADER, @billdeblasio, LA Observed, @jayrosen_nyu, @dmunday, @senfeinstein, @samseaborn, @jillfilipovic, @rbbrenner, @moorehn, @profstewartrk, @googlenewslab, @mrdanzak, @emersongreg, @wsjforero, @michaeldweiss, @jbsgreenberg, @offlede, @juliakmarsh, @mallarytenore, ProPublica, New York Magazine, Associated Press, NPR, @pulitzerprize, @newyorker and The Wrap
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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FishbowlDC, The Peabody Awards, The Wrap, NPR, TVSpy, Broadcasting & Cable, @gwenifill, @markmemmottnpr and Current
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work — Donald Trump's campaign paid the site's national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year. — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, @hadas_gold, @redsteeze, @mckaycoppins, @rosiegray and @baseballcrank
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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Forbes, The Wrap, VentureBeat, New York Times, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, Re/code, CNBC, ZDNet, Business Insider, @danprimack, Mashable, Fortune and DSLreports
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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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Home Media Magazine, Netflix Media Center, Forbes, Variety and The Verge
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
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
Ann Christy:
How scammers are making thousands of dollars via Kindle Unlimited by publishing fake e-books that are free to buy — KU Scammers on Amazon - What's Going On? — This is extremely long and probably only of interest to indie authors, but it does impact readers who shop Amazon, so I'm putting it here for anyone.
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