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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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Fast Company, Gawker, @masscomm101, @jweb, @jimbrady, @carlzimmer, Business Insider and Guardian
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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Instagram Blog, Nieman Lab, The Verge, @lavrusik, Guardian, @chrismessina, @zeynep, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, Engadget, @dannysullivan, Social Media Today, Cision and GeekTime
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, Investor's Business Daily, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Fortune, Light Reading, The Drum, Business Insider, Recode, Benzinga, Forbes, Consumerist, @scottmaustin, @jasonwhitely, Reuters, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY and Ars Technica UK
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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New York Magazine, @tysone, @felixsalmon, @rmac18 and @mattzeitlin
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 — Next stop: House of Lords. — Updated June 7, 19:45 BST: On Tuesday night 444 MPs voted in favour of the third reading of the Investigatory Powers Bill.
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The Intercept, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Reuters, Press Gazette, TechCrunch and Press Gazette
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, The Next Web, @nxthompson, @samkirkland, CNBC, @jbenton, Chicago Tribune and @raju
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gannett says it won't drop its offer for Tribune Publishing, for now
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.
Discussion:
@raju and @alexgspence
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
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 …
Discussion:
CBC News, Canada - The Huffington Post and VICE
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Vimeo CEO Trainor to Step Down From IAC's Web Video Service — Parent company is assessing future strategy for internet site — Streaming service began investing in original shows this year — Vimeo Chief Executive Officer Kerry Trainor is leaving his post atop IAC/InterActiveCorp's video website …
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@lucas_shaw