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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Instagram launches new “Stories” section, cloning Snapchat's Stories feature, with PewDiePie and other celebrities and social influencers onboard — Watch out, Snapchat: Instagram is gunning for you. — The Facebook-owned photo sharing service announced a major update Tuesday …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN president Jeff Zucker calls Vice and BuzzFeed native ad shops, not legitimate news organizations, praises former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — Corey Lewandowski is a great CNN contributor and Vice and BuzzFeed are not legitimate news organizations, CNN president Jeff Zucker says in Variety's latest cover story.
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Tobias Burns / Hollywood Reporter:
Funny or Die is cutting about 37 staffers and closing its San Mateo office — EMAIL ME — New CEO Mike Farah is making changes. — Comedy website Funny or Die is cutting approximately 37 staffers and closing their San Mateo office, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Aron Pilhofer, The Guardian's outgoing executive editor for digital, on the paper's 50K-strong membership model, differences between US and UK media — Aron Pilhofer has had a front-row seat to the sweeping changes newsrooms have experienced at the hands of digital disruption.
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
NFL, Snapchat agree to multi-year partnership extension; NFL gets a Discover slot, will produce Live Stories for games; Snapchat will do most of ad-selling work — Football league to produce analysis, photos, videos for messaging app under extended partnership — The National Football League is huddling up with Snapchat Inc.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn launches Q&A videos, created by its network of 500 influencers, may extend ability to create video content to other users — LinkedIn, the social platform for people to network and look for work that's getting acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion, is taking the wraps off …
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Fast Company, @raju, Recode and VentureBeat
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Facebook is testing giving publishers the option to run fifteen-second mid-roll video ads in Facebook Live streams — Fifteen-Second Commercial Breaks Appear During Live-Streams — Facebook has started running tests of mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts from top publishing partners, the company confirmed Monday.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NYT to publish print-only 16K-word excerpt of author Colson Whitehead's new novel, part of a plan to use fiction to incentivize sales of paper's print edition — Even as The New York Times prioritizes digital expansion, with a stated goal of reaching $800 million in digital revenue by 2020 …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Matthew Keys ordered to prison on Thursday for conviction in 2010 Los Angeles Times hack, asks Obama for reprieve and reforms to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — A California-based journalist facing a two-year prison term after being convicted in a hacking case is asking President Barack Obama to step in with a last-minute reprieve.
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Following Vice's lead, digital publishers like Ozy are signing TV deals — Vox Media Says Production Process For Curbed Show Is Going Smoothly — It's no longer a question of “if,” it's a question of “when.” Digital publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed, Thrillist Media Group …
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Chinese mobile app and security software company Cheetah Mobile acquires France-based news aggregator startup News Republic for $57M — Chinese tech company Cheetah Mobile has acquired French startup News Republic for $57 million. News Republic is a news aggregator …
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
How Atlas Obscura is building the “Nice Vice” with a nascent travel business, a potential TV show and a book due in September — One day in 2014, soon after David Plotz left his job as editor of the online magazine Slate, he took his then 13-year-old daughter, Noa, on a bike ride through Anacostia.
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