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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 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, VentureBeat, Ad Age, Adweek, Variety, @ndiblasio and Engadget
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, Fast Company, Ad Age, The Drum, Vanity Fair, @scottmaustin, Fortune, Forbes, Light Reading, @jasonwhitely, Business Insider, Recode, Benzinga, FishbowlNY, Consumerist, Ars Technica UK, Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch and Reuters
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, The Verge, Nieman Lab, @chrismessina, @zeynep, Guardian, @dannysullivan, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, Engadget, Cision and GeekTime
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, @masscomm101, @carlzimmer, @jweb, Guardian and Business Insider
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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The Next Web, @justinglawe and @jbenton
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gannett says it won't drop its offer for Tribune Publishing, for now — Gannett isn't ready to give up its fight for Tribune Publishing just yet. — In a press release issued Tuesday morning, the newspaper company said it's “determined to keep its offer in place” as it “evaluates various near-term developments.”
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.
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
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
HuffPost Mexico launch moved forward as Mexico becomes critical to US election, partnering with Mexican media company Grupo Imagen Multimedia — International edition expedited after Donald Trump's comments about Trump University judge — Just in time for the U.S. general election …
Discussion:
@lheron, @nsabloff, @kelseymsutton and Fortune
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Blizzard announces it's integrating Facebook Live into all of its PC games for gameplay streaming — Blizzard Entertainment and Facebook have teamed up to weave Facebook identity and social networking services into the enormously popular Overwatch PC and console video game as well as other popular Battle.net games.
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SocialTimes, Business Wire, I4U News, VatorNews, Variety, Business Insider, Polygon, Recode, Investor's Business Daily, The Verge, TechCrunch and Engadget
John Hopewell / Variety:
Streaming and media companies express concerns over proposed EU regulations to limit geo-blocking, impose local content quotas — The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, proposes that video streaming services operating in Europe — including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO …
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