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6:25 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
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
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside The New Yorker video strategy: slow, deliberate, focused on story, and protective of the brand works better than high output and speed  —  Comma Queen, The New Yorker's grammar-focused video series, might not seem that promising a concept on paper.  In it, longtime magazine copy …
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.
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Entrepreneur Media launches Entrepreneur Lending, for an industry it covers, as publishers increasingly blur lines between editorial and business to make money  —  When Judy Balint, the chief marketing officer at SmartBiz Loans, read a freelance article that her company's president contributed …
Discussion: Cision
 
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Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Apple Music passes 17M subscribers, up from 15M in June
Discussion: Motherboard and Fortune
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