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Tribune Publishing Co.:
Tribune Publishing announces it will change name to tronc, Inc., and move stock exchange listing from NYSE to Nasdaq — Rebranding with Content Curation and Visualization Focus to Benefit 60 Million Digital Users — CHICAGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Tribune Publishing Co. (NYSE:TPUB) …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tribune shareholders re-elect board, but no immediate details given on voting breakdown that would show support for Gannett offer to buy company — Still, it's unclear how much support Gannett garnered for its ‘withhold’ campaign as detailed results weren't given
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Far worse than Tribune Publishing's new name is the company's direction, mired in buzzwords — It has been a tense spring in the realm of big-time newspaper consolidation. Back in April, Gannett, owner of more than 100 newspapers across the country, including the flagship USA Today …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Gannett is leaning toward dropping bid to acquire Tribune Publishing — Gannett expects majority of Tribune investors not to withhold — Company said to be open to buying Tribune Publishing in future — Gannett Co. is leaning toward dropping its bid to acquire Tribune Publishing Co …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Sources: Snapchat has 150M daily active users, more than Twitter's estimated 140M, but more people use Twitter for news — Snapchat now has more active daily users than Twitter, Bloomberg reported Thursday. — Snapchat has 150 million active daily users, up from 110 million in December, Bloomberg reported.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump security removes Politico reporter from rally — SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A Donald Trump campaign staffer and a private security guard removed a POLITICO reporter from a campaign rally here on Thursday evening for reporting at the event without the campaign's permission.
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
City AM to give brands access to CMS, allowing them to publish unvetted article-like advertisements that will be marked as paid ads — City AM is to give corporate brands direct access to its online publishing system, allowing them to upload advertisements that look like articles to its website.
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BuzzFeed:
To earn trust, social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat must have transparent and consistent policies and must commit to free expression — The great 21st-century platforms—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest—have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars.
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@emilybell, @buzzfeedben, @matt_cagle, @arielkaminer and @katherinemiller
Joshua Keefe / The New York Observer:
Facebook's new And Chill chatbot is a movie recommendation Messenger bot that will learn individual preferences over time — The site's new chatbot ‘And Chill’ will chat with you about your movie preferences — Facebook is already the center of your social life online. Now it wants to hijack your Netflix queue.
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Gawker's Nick Denton says Silicon Valley billionaires need more scrutiny and defends posting Hulk Hogan sex tape — The Gawker owner says the media needs to counter balance the growing power of the wealthy. — Does Gawker owner Nick Denton regret posting Hulk Hogan's sex tape?
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Julien Genestoux / Superfeedr's thoughts:
Medium acquires Superfeedr, maker of an API for generating and pushing RSS feeds — The web is very different from what it was 8 years ago. We've said it several times: publishing and consuming content are new frontiers for most of the web giants like Facebook, Google or Apple.
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Rob Price / Business Insider:
A16z, USV lead $1.5M seed round in Mediachain, a digital media startup building an open, blockchain-based tool to identify artists' works online — Top Silicon Valley investors are betting on a startup that wants to create a vast decentralised library of the world's images so authorship isn't lost and artists can get paid.
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Mic:
Nested parentheses, known as an “echo” are being used by trolls to unleash anti-Semitism online — In the early days of the social web, putting someone's name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it's something far more sinister.
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