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5:20 AM ET, June 9, 2016

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How changes to Apple's App Store subscriptions, including the 85/15 revenue split for subscriptions after 12 months, could affect publishers  —  Monday is Apple's big day for software announcements at its annual WWDC conference, but we got an early peek at one of them at The Verge …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook hires CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen as head of global creative strategy  —  Goodbye, Barry Diller.  Hello, Mark Zuckerberg.  —  Last year, Ricky Van Veen argued that Mark Zuckerberg is the most powerful person in the world.  —  Now he's going to work for him.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Arianna Huffington plans health and wellness media startup with backing from Alibaba's Jack Ma  —  Thrive will provide health and wellness-related content, with a little help from Huffington's celebrity friends and backing from Alibaba's Jack Ma.  —  A decade after co-founding …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:   HuffPost Mexico launch moved forward as Mexico becomes critical to US election, partnering with Mexican media company Grupo Imagen Multimedia
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
PwC: Internet Advertising Will Overtake Broadcast Advertising in the U.S. Next Year  —  Although TV advertising will remain strong as the industry evolves over the next five years, internet advertising will overtake broadcast advertising in the U.S. next year.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Honolulu Civil Beat drops paywall and launches membership program as it becomes a nonprofit  —  The Honolulu Civil Beat, the six-year-old Hawaii-based news site launched by Pierre Omidyar, is becoming a nonprofit, the organization said Wednesday.  It's dropping its metered paywall and introducing a membership program.
Discussion: Civil Beat News
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 …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix study: binge watchers take about a week average for the first season of a show, watching about two hours per day, horror and thrillers viewed fastest  —  At a time when there's more scripted television than ever, how long does it take to finish a complete season of a show?
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 …
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
NYT Deputy Washington Editor Jon Weisman says he's leaving Twitter after facing anti-Semitic tweets and inconsistent Twitter response to trolls  —  Inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and frustrated by Twitter's initial response, New York Times editor Jon Weisman is packing up and leaving the social media platform.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Global Voices teams up with MediaCloud on a two-year project to build tool that examines whether stories are over- or under-covered  —  It's hard to prove or disprove allegations of media bias, or to notice any change in how global issues are covered, globally.
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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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Long-time Twitter exec Ross Hoffman named vice president of global media, reporting to Ali Jafari
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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
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
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Vimeo CEO Trainor to Step Down From IAC's Web Video Service
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
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