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8:20 AM ET, May 6, 2016

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Pew Research Center:
Study: readers spend an average of two minutes on 1K words and longer articles on mobile, traffic from Twitter leads to longer engagement than from Facebook  —  Long-Form Reading Shows Signs of Life in Our Mobile News World  —  In recent years, the news media have followed their audience's lead …
James Pinkstone / Vellum:
Composer claims Apple deleted 122GB of music from his laptop and replaced some songs with more widely available versions after he subscribed to Apple Music  —  Apple Stole My Music.  No, Seriously.  —  “The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The New York Times and Chef'd partner to deliver ingredients used in NYT Cooking recipes starting this summer  —  New York Times to Start Delivering Meal Kits to Your Home  —  Times partners with Chef'd to drop off ingredients for recipes  —  Publisher is seeking new revenue sources as print declines
Kshitiz Goliya / Reuters:
News Corp quarterly revenue falls 7.3% to $1.89B; firm reports net loss of $149M due to one-time charge from a lawsuit  —  News Corp's quarterly revenue falls 7.3 percent, profit hit by charge  —  News Corp (NWSA.O), owner of the Wall Street Journal and book publisher HarperCollins …
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Alex Spence / Politico:
News Corp faces continuing ad revenue slump and circulation revenue decline at UK's Sun, Times, and Sunday Times  —  Slump at Sun and Times adds to Fleet Street's advertising woes  —  NEW YORK — Advertising revenues from News Corp's British newspapers fell by a “mid-teens” …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Report: Katie Couric mulls an exit from Yahoo less than a year after signing $10M contract  —  Katie Couric is looking to jump ship from Yahoo  —  Katie Couric is mulling an exit from Yahoo, just a year after signing a new contract worth $10 million last year, according to the New York Post.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple Music's new student membership option discounts the service by 50%  —  Amid news that Apple Music is getting a makeover come this summer, Apple today launched a new plan to boost subscribers to its streaming music service and competitor to Spotify, SoundCloud, Tidal and others.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Periscope public beta allows users to permanently save broadcasts by typing #save in title of stream  —  Periscope mimics FB Live by letting you permanently #Save replays  —  Periscope added its biggest missing feature today in a move that could make it more palatable to brands and social stars …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New Day failed because of unclear pricing, early deadlines, and a timid launch on the cheap with little staff investment  —  Why The New Day didn't work... and had no hope of working  —  The New Day's demise is no surprise.  A couple of weeks after its launch I blurted out at a Media Society seminar …
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Nicola Clark / New York Times:
New Day, British Newspaper That Shunned Web, Will Close After 10 Weeks
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Former Venezuela parliament head sues News Corp for libel over Wall Street Journal story about US drug probe  —  Ex-Venezuela parliament head sues News Corp over drug article  —  The former head of Venezuela's National Assembly filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the Wall Street Journal …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
The Secret Service to run background checks on reporters applying for GOP and Democratic convention credentials, raising criticism from journalists  —  How The Secret Service Is Trying To Handcuff The Press  —  The media fightback has begun after the Secret Service was given the power …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
With new columns and newsletters, ProPublica is trying to attract new readers and have more fun  —  While ProPublica spends most of its energy reporting long investigative stories on topics like patient safety and college debt, the nonprofit site has a goal of publishing at least one shorter piece per day.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Sources: LinkedIn has held talks with publishers about introducing its own version of Facebook's Instant Articles  —  LinkedIn Exploring Its Own Version Of Facebook's Instant Articles  —  Exploratory talks with publishers in the works.  —  LinkedIn is considering introducing its own version …
 
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Charleston's family-owned The Post and Courier buys alt-weekly Free Times in Columbia, SC, hires McClatchy political reporter as editor, continuing expansion
 

 
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions
 
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