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9:20 AM ET, June 8, 2016

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Kathy English / Toronto Star:
Two Toronto Star managers lose newsroom jobs after reporter's suicide; policies on workplace relationships and conflicts of interest to be “amplified”  —  Reporter Raveena Aulakh instructed the Star not to ‘write about’ her suicide, but media coverage of a suicide demands caution …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
In redesigned Snapchat app, Live Stories show alongside publishers' stories on both the Stories and Discover page, and you can subscribe to favorite channels  —  Snapchat is redesigning the Stories page in an effort to boost views of publishers' content — and to help build the advertising business …
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Bill Adair / Nieman Lab:
Biggest drawback of getting news only from Snapchat Discover for a week was timeliness, with only once-a-day updates
Ryan Mac / Forbes:
A look at the legal battles against Gawker involving Charles Harder, the attorney funded by Peter Thiel in the Hulk Hogan case  —  It's voting season for the Emmy Awards, which means that electioneering in the form of billboards rising into the haze dominates the Los Angeles skyline.
Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK:
UK MPs vote 444-69 in favor of Investigatory Powers Bill, with only Liberal Democrats and the Green Party opposing; the bill now heads to House of Lords  —  Labour's shadow home office minister Keir Starmer told MPs during day one of the report stage of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Examining the pundits at CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, as cable news reports less and speculates more  —  Babblers, bomb throwers and bloviators: A visit to the wacky land of Punditstan  —  Today is Wednesday, the day after Donald Trump's big victory in the New York primary, so today, pundits …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Nearly 198K people in US are now working for online-only outlets vs. 183K working for newspapers  —  There are now more Americans working for online publishers and broadcasters than for newspapers, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Employment at online outlets first eclipsed newspapers in October 2015.
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
Yahoo Launches First Chat Bots On Kik For Weather, News And Monkeys  —  Yahoo may be in the middle of selling itself but it isn't giving up on trying to stay relevant to Internet users.  The company has launched its first three chat bots on Kik Messenger, a chat app that's popular with American teenagers.
Discussion: Adweek, Yahoo, VentureBeat and PR Newswire
Ina Fried / Recode:
Getty Images announces new VR business unit, plans to equip each of its Olympics photographers with 360-degree camera  —  The storied photo service plans to equip every one of its Olympics photographers with a 360-degree camera.  —  Across the film and video game industries …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sources: Politico hopes to find editor by “early summer”; Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman is being considered; BuzzFeed's Ben Smith also approached  —  Several prominent journalists have been considered for the influential role, as the 2016 conventions approach.
Discussion: @mlcalderone
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Probate judge delays ruling on Sumner Redstone's competency after Redstone removed Viacom representatives from board of family trust  —  The battle over control of Sumner Redstone's $40 billion media empire moved to a Massachusetts courtroom on Tuesday, where a state judge said he needed …
Jake Edmiston / National Post:
Government orders Canada Post to stop delivering Your Ward News, a Toronto newspaper that has derided Jews, Muslims, women, and LGBT, calling it hate propaganda  —  Warning: Graphic language  —  The federal government has ordered Canada Post to stop delivering Your Ward News …
Wall Street Journal:
Source: Verizon to submit second-round bid of $3B for Yahoo's core Internet business, is uninterested in other assets like real estate and patents  —  Private-equity firm TPG also expected to make new Yahoo bid  —  Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:   Gannett says it won't drop its offer for Tribune Publishing, for now
 
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