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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 …
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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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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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@onekade, @ericboehlert, @dbreunig, @nickbaumann, @joshsternberg, @jayrosen_nyu and @gmrowden
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 …
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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 …
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Anthony Palazzo / Bloomberg:
Tegna to spin off Cars.com as separate public company in 2017, with Alex Vetter as CEO; Tegna CEO Gracia Martore to retire, replaced by Dave Lougee — CEO Gracia Martore to retire when split takes place next year — Alex Vetter to lead Cars.com, Dave Lougee to be CEO of Tegna
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