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Andrew Golis / blog.this.cm:
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
New York Times:
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
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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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USA Today:
White House Correspondents' Association expresses concern about treatment of press during 2016 campaign, says both candidates threaten free press
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
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
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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9to5Mac, Recode, Polygon, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, AdExchanger, @danrayburn, Daily Mail, Daring Fireball, Engadget, AppleInsider, Tech Insider, AppAdvice.com Latest, MacStories, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Verge and Fortune
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
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
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
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
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
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
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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
Casey Newton / The Verge:
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 …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
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