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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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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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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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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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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett claims symbolic victory for its no-confidence vote against Tribune Publishing management — Tribune Publishing's slate of directors was elected at today's annual meeting. But Gannett, which is attempting a takeover of Tribune Publishing, claimed that a majority of those shareholders …
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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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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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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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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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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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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Anti-Defamation League forms task force to study online abuse targeting journalists and whether it causes them to self-censor out of fear of retribution — The 2016 election has been nothing if not a case study in what you can get away with saying. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump set …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter and the NBA sign deal with Samsung for first 360-degree video Twitter Amplify ad campaign, to run during NBA Finals pre- and post-game — As the NBA Finals tipping off Thursday night, get ready to see superstars Stephen Curry and LeBron James from every angle on Twitter …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Google launches Magenta, a machine learning project for art and music, by releasing the project's first song — Today, Google's newest machine learning project released its first piece of generated art, a 90-second piano melody created through a trained neural network, provided with just four notes up front.
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