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Seth Stevenson / Wall Street Journal:
Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, unveils Spectacles, sunglasses that record 10 seconds of video at a time with a tap of a button, to be sold this fall for $130 — IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room.
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Sources: Twitter may receive formal bid shortly, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google — Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology companies and may receive a formal bid shortly, sources said. — The social media company is engaged in conversations …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge founding team member Chris Ziegler took a job at Apple two months before leaving the website; internal review finds no impact on editorial decisions — Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks.
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New York Times' public editor calls for the publisher to acknowledge substantial changes to stories — IN the history of do-overs at The New York Times, there is one example that may seem of no large consequence but nonetheless infuriated readers. It involved an obituary about a rocket scientist named Yvonne Brill.
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The Ringer:
A look at CNN's three shifting identities: as a passive instrument for Trump, a cell of smart anchors, and the cable news embodiment of a low-information voter — CNN has revitalized itself in the age of Donald Trump—but is it doing what a news network should?
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David Fischer / Facebook:
Facebook VP of advertising David Fischer explains video metric miscalculation, apologizes, says the mistake had no impact on billing — Many of you may have seen the reports about our video metric miscalculation - I want to provide further clarity on the issue.
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook says it overestimated average video viewing time metric by 60%-80% for 2 years, according to information Publicis Media says it obtained from Facebook
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Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with WLRN health reporter Sammy Mack, on covering the Zika outbreak in South Florida while pregnant — Reporter Sammy Mack covers the health beat for public radio station WLRN in South Florida. (Photo by Scott Schoenleber via WLRN.org, used with permission)
Bloomberg:
Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner to sell 49% stake in the magazine to Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, which will have no editorial input — Rolling Stone plans to sell a 49% stake to Singapore startup BandLab, Bloomberg News reports.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AwesomenessTV partners with Kobalt to identify music talent and connect them with publishing and rights services, launches ad-supported Awesomeness Music — AwesomenessTV, which has built its business on the output of young YouTube video creators, is launching a new initiative to discover …
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Tubefilter and Forbes
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Media reporter Paul Farhi asks readers to stop referring to “the media”, an imprecise, unfair, lazy smear — To: Everyone From: Paul Farhi — Folks, I know a lot of you don't like the people who work in my chosen profession, the news business.
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge rules UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo is a limited-purpose public figure, making it harder to prove defamation in a lawsuit against Rolling Stone — The court has found that UVA dean Nicole Eramo is a limited-purpose public figure and will face a higher bar in proving the story defamed her.
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Washington Post:
CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski set to get nearly $500K from Trump campaign from April 2015 to December 2016, almost 25% coming as severance after June firing — Corey Lewandowski is set to be paid nearly half a million dollars by Donald Trump's presidential campaign by the end of the year …
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