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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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Fast Company, SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch
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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 — Snapchat wants to be a news source, so I spent the last week on a Snapchat-only diet. I gave up my breakfast routine of The New York Times, The Washington Post …
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Recode, Adweek, VentureBeat, Ad Age, Variety, @ndiblasio and Engadget
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.
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@thatrebecca, @jimbrady, Newsy, Gawker, Fast Company, @masscomm101, @carlzimmer, @jweb, Business Insider and Guardian
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.
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@tysone, @mattdrange, @nicknotned, @natrobe, @felixsalmon, @rmac18, @mattzeitlin, New York Magazine and Recode
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 …
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The Intercept, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Reuters, TechCrunch, Press Gazette and Press Gazette
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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ZDNet, Business Insider, BetaNews, Investor's Business Daily, The Drum, Consumerist, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Fortune, Light Reading, Benzinga, Recode, Forbes, @scottmaustin, @jasonwhitely, FishbowlNY, Reuters, Ars Technica UK and TechCrunch
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday:
Instagram rolls out its non-chronological algorithm-based feed, but businesses can pay to boost their stories to the top — Instagram's algorithm apocalypse is upon us. — The photo-sharing app confirmed that it's rolling out the new feed to all users beginning today, three months after Instagram first announced the move.
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Nieman Lab, Instagram Blog, @lavrusik, The Verge, Guardian, TechCrunch, @chrismessina, @zeynep, New York Magazine, Engadget, @dannysullivan, Social Media Today, Cision and GeekTime
Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Tribune Publishing chairman: We want to start publishing 2,000 videos a day with artificial intelligence — From Michael Ferro's CNBC hit earlier today. — Late last week, Tribune Publishing announced that it was now called Tronc (or tronc, with the five-years-too-late-to-be-fashionable lower-case …
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@justinglawe, @nxthompson, @samkirkland, CNBC, The Next Web and Chicago Tribune
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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.
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@mlcalderone
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 …
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GeekWire, Getty Images Press Room and USA Today
Politico:
Following the closure of its print edition, The Independent expands its U.S. newsroom, adding several specialist reporters and a news editor — LONDON — For three decades, the Independent was a plucky underdog battling Fleet Street's powerful press barons.
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@raju and @alexgspence
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 …
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CBC News, @juliedabrusin, VICE and Canada - The Huffington Post
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 …
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