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1:30 AM ET, September 8, 2016

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei raises $10M round led by Lerer Hippeau for a subscription-based news venture aimed at professionals, launching early 2017  —  Service will sell subscriptions, aim at specialists in industries like tech, health care  —  Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump ends his media ‘blacklist’, effective from Thursday, approving requests for press credentials to media outlets including WaPo, Politico, and BuzzFeed  —  Donald Trump is ending a practice most journalists think he never should have started: his “blacklisting” of news outlets.
Bloomberg:
Snapchat ends its Local Stories section as it shifts to live events, fires about 15 curators  —  Snapchat Inc. is ending its daily local stories for cities feature, which pulled together video of everyday activities — concerts, cute puppies in the park — shot by users in locales such as New York.
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Sources: Snapchat talking to investment bankers about filing for an IPO later this year or early 2017 but hasn't yet settled on a bank  —  Snapchat has been talking to investment bankers about filing for an IPO towards the end of this year or early in 2017, according to people the company has spoken to.
Discussion: AOL
Brendan Nyhan / New York Times:
Study of political news browsing of 1400 people: most read centrist sources, but some partisans, especially Republicans, consume highly polarized media heavily  —  Anyone who has followed this election carefully would be forgiven for thinking that voters have diverged into two separate realities.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Guardian's social editor, product manager on what they've learnt from its Sous-chef bot: natural language increases engagement, bots can't be too human-like  —  For the past two months, the Guardian has been testing a Facebook Messenger bot, “Sous-chef,” that provides recipe suggestions …
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Two HuffPo employees were suspended after Huffington complained about a story on friend Fareed Zakaria, one of a series of missteps that alienated staff  —  The Huffington Post's namesake founder, who stepped down as editor in chief last month, built an iconic media company in record time.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, @e_alexjung and @slone
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The New York Times reminds staffers about policies for personal social media: avoid editorializing, endorsing candidates, or promoting political views  —  For the second time in three months, The Times's associate managing editor for standards sent a note out to the newsroom Wednesday morning …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How The New York Times used “Maker Week”, an event for developers, designers, product managers, and other staffers to focus on special projects  —  News organization stylebooks had a good long run living only as spiral-ring notebooks.  But they've all gone online in some way or another.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Liberty Media agrees to acquire Formula Racing for $4.4B; former DirecTV CEO Chase Carey to serve as chairman, and CEO Bernie Ecclestone will remain  —  Chase Carey named chairman of Formula One  —  Liberty Media has agreed to acquire global motorsports business Formula One from a consortium …
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Apple Music passes 17M subscribers, up from 15M in June  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed today that the company's flagship music service, Apple Music, now has 17 million paying subscribers — up from 15 million in June.  —  This new stat arrives as Apple seeks to correct the mistakes …
Discussion: Motherboard and Fortune
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube orders two original series, “Squad Wars” and “Broke”, from BuzzFeed Motion Pictures for its subscription service YouTube Red
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap
Mike Fishbein / Zero Infinity:
Alt-right writers like Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich join Gab.ai, a social network that emphasizes free speech, is in beta and has 10K users
Discussion: @tillywrites
Agence France-Presse:
AFP opens bureau in North Korea, becomes fourth news agency in country after AP, Japan's Kyodo, and China's Xinhua, will primarily file videos and photos
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times launches California Today, a daily newsletter posted at 6 am PT, also available on site and via mobile apps
Discussion: LA Observed
Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
Dallas Morning News refuses to endorse GOP nominee for first time since 1964
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings
 
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