Mediagazer: Profile of 50onRed, a company that bills itself as a digital advertising firm, but makes money from ad injections (Juliana Reyes/Backchannel)

5:20 PM ET, June 3, 2016

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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.

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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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

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett claims symbolic victory for its no-confidence vote against Tribune Publishing management

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Vox suspends editor Emmett Rensin for tweets that encouraged riots at Donald Trump rallies — Ezra Klein's Vox has suspended one of its editors after he encouraged people to start riots at Donald Trump rallies. — The editor, Emmett Rensin, tweeted late Thursday night that it was …

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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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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Max Ciociola / Musixmatch Blog:

Musixmatch lyric service ends its partnership with Spotify and will focus on its stand-alone product and business model — The partnership between Musixmatch and Spotify began in 2011, when they launched in the App store — We immediately had an incredible amount of success …

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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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Juliana Reyes / Backchannel:

Profile of 50onRed, a company that bills itself as a digital advertising firm, but makes money from ad injections — 50onRed is a fixture in Philly's tech scene. But there's something the leadership didn't talk about, even with some of its own staff. — The company seemed like the perfect place for Tyler.

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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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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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 …