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Link sharing startup This. to go offline at the end of the month, shutting down the site, newsletter and app — Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. — I'm tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it's pretty simple …
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Nieman Lab, Fast Company, @losowsky, @jbenton, @semil and @digidave


Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward — SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business. — Final bids for the services, which include Yahoo's search, email …
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New York Post, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Fortune and Business Insider


White House Correspondents' Association editorial makes false equivalences on Clinton's and Trump's response to and interaction with media — The campaign of Donald Trump has offended the notion of a free press in some of the following ways: — • Bashing outlet after outlet after outlet …
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@neeratanden, The Daily Caller, @jaketapper, @dandrezner, @_cingraham, @thefix, Press Gazette, @delrayser, @dougjballoon, @rob_sawicki, @carloslozadawp and @alneuhauser
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White House Correspondents' Association expresses concern about treatment of press during 2016 campaign, says both candidates threaten free press
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Politico, WAOW-TV, Business Standard, Sputnik International, Personal Liberty, TheBlaze.com, Mediaite, CNN, @jaketapper, @mlcalderone and Politico


Interview with Eddy Cue on TV skinny bundles and cable boxes, getting Hollywood content to consumers, working with studios, and making Apple Music stand out — The senior vp also dishes on what he learned from Steve Jobs, why the company won't be buying a Hollywood studio anytime soon and why agents should be “very, very excited.”
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Interpreting Cue Q&A: as programmers vie for distribution deals, demand to carry all programming becomes less important, eventually leading to skinny bundles — Eddy Cue on skinny bundles, translated. — Apple has spent years trying to assemble a “skinny bundle” of TV channels that it could sell directly to consumers.
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@pkafka, @markjefsf, @mobivangelist, @kyliu99, Business Insider and 9to5Mac


BitTorrent Now's music and video streaming app comes to iOS, Apple TV — BitTorrent's name may still be associated with piracy, but BitTorrent the company has been working to legitimize the peer-to-peer technologyas a tool that can be used to distribute content in legal ways.
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Official BitTorrent Blog, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, MyGaming, NDTV Gadgets360.com, TodaysiPhone.com and n3rdabl3

DirecTV and U-Verse to provide commercial-free, unedited coverage of Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention — DirecTV, U-Verse to offer gavel-to-gavel, commercial-free coverage — With the upcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions promising …
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VentureBeat, YouTube Blog, Telecompaper, Rapid TV News, Fortune and PR Newswire


Interview with New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi on ISIS, al-Qaida, and dealing with dangerous sources — The New York Times' Rukmini Callimachi on the group's ruthless tactics, the perils of getting close to dangerous sources, and the emotional toll of reporting on terrorism.
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@libraryamerica, @ichotiner and @longreads


Q&A with Nick Denton on the value of comments, how Gawker writers moderate discussions, and how conversations mean more than likes or shares — Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has a lot of things on his mind right now, not the least of which is the future of his company as it goes through …
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@jeffjohnroberts, @mylittlebloggie, @fortunemagazine, @curtwoodward and @herbscribner


eMusic launches eStories, an audiobook service with 80K titles at a cost of $11.95 per title, to compete with Audible — eMusic, the veteran digital music company that was acquired in 2015 by Israeli media startup TriPlay, is expanding its horizons. Today the company is launching eStories …
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Digital Book World and Engadget


Facebook Messenger supports Instant Articles on Android today, will be coming next week to iOS — When Facebook announced its platform for bots at the F8 developer conference this year, publishers raced to push news into Facebook Messenger. But until now, their stories have loaded …


ComScore study: display ads on sites of premium publishers like Hearst, Gannett, and ESPN are more effective than those on non-premium sites — What's the difference between The New York Times, and, say, DNAInfo New York? Maybe about $20. — The Times, along with outlets like ESPN …
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Adweek, PR Newswire, MediaPost, Marketing Dive, Warc, @zjkaplan, @bankoff, comScore, Digital Content Next and Wall Street Journal