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1:50 PM ET, June 21, 2016

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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators  —  Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds.  —  There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Tronc's latest branding video discusses content funnels and AI, resembles an Adult Swim parody, and draws criticism online for its use of buzzwords  —  Content funnels.  Artificial intelligence.  Optimize.  —  Last month, newspaper chain Tribune Publishing rebranded itself as Tronc …
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Eldridge Industries, owner of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, hires bankers to review media holdings  —  Eldridge Industries, the U.S. owner of TV production company Dick Clark Productions and magazines Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, told Reuters on Friday that it had hired investment banks …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's Playbook could be delivered more than once a day, with new authors Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer considering introducing 90-second audio briefings  —  When Mike Allen launched Playbook in 2007, he promised to deliver his agenda-setting newsletter to a D.C. crowd obsessed with Treos (remember those?) and Blackberries.
Discussion: USA Today and Poynter
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
New York Times Chief Executive Mark Thompson says paper will launch ad-free option for subscribers in response to the rise of ad-blockers  —  CEO Mark Thompson says readers can pay more to ditch ads online amid rise in ad-blocking adoption  —  New York Times Co. Chief Executive Mark Thompson confirmed plans …
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify expands its ad sales operation as it seeks to maximize ad revenue; ad sales have doubled YoY for last two years  —  Music streaming CEO courts marketers at Cannes as sales operations expand  —  Jeff Levick, chief revenue officer at Spotify AB, remembers how the advertising side …
Discussion: @digitalshields, Variety and The Verge
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV  —  Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
BitTorrent considering launching “lean” TV news channel, BitTorrent News, in time for fall election, based on job listing for news director in San Francisco  —  BitTorrent is considering the launch of a TV news network for its live streaming service in time for the election this fall, Variety has learned.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Report: ad blocking to grow 34% this year to nearly 70M, will grow to 86.6M in 2017  —  Publishers would love internet users to decide that, actually, they don't need to install an ad-blocker on their browser of choice.  But a new report from research firm eMarketer suggested on Tuesday that there's no such hope on the horizon.
Discussion: eMarketer, VentureBeat and Digiday
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post experiments with limiting access from social by asking for email addresses from non-paying, logged out online readers  —  Even as it boasts of record traffic, The Washington Post is apparently looking at ways to make it a little more difficult for people to read its journalism for free.
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures emphasizes exclusive rights to full-time staffers' work unless it grants exceptions after two employees were fired  —  Just over a week after two BuzzFeed Motion Pictures producers were fired for taking small acting roles in a non-Buzzfeed web series …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Mashable buys YouTube channel CineFix, with over 1.6M subscribers, from Whalerock Industries
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Discussion: The Next Web and Fast Company
Madhumita Murgia / Telegraph:
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
CBS Studios' Julie McNamara Joins CBS All Access As Head Of Original Content
Discussion: Variety and The Wrap
David Bond / Financial Times:
Sources: Fleet Street papers discuss potential collaborations including the formation of a single ad sales operation
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Taylor Swift, U2, other artists, sign open letter calling on Congress to rewrite DMCA legislation
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

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Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
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