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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty — Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope …
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The Verge, Engadget, @rafat and @digiphile
Bruce Campion-Smith / Toronto Star:
Torstar chair John Honderich warns of a crisis in Canadian private media as newsrooms shrink, advertising disappears, and federally funded CBC News competes — Canadian media are facing a “crisis” as market forces shrink newsrooms, leaving fewer journalists to report the news vital to a vibrant democracy, Torstar chair tells MPs.
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Sean Craig / Financial Post:
Rogers Publishing in Canada retreats from print, announcing 4 magazines will cease printing, 3 other titles will reduce frequency, 34 trade titles are for sale — TORONTO — Rogers Publishing Limited, the publishing subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. announced a major retreat from print media Friday …
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CBC News, @jeremy_keehn, @macleansmag, @sdbcraig, @themediaisdying and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media
Wall Street Journal:
Viacom board appoints committee to review potential CBS merger: Thomas May, Kenneth Lerer, Nicole Seligman, Judith McHale, Ronald Nelson, and Charles Phillips — Most members are expected to be newcomers handpicked by Shari Redstone — Viacom Inc. 's board of directors is forming …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for “massive DDoS attack” Thursday night, after it published an article about Trump's business dealings in Cuba — Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for the crash of its website on Thursday night, after it published an article …
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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Inside a two-year-old catfishing ebook scam on Amazon that has generated over $3M in revenue for its creator, Valeriy Shershnyov — For years, thousands were tricked into buying low-quality ebooks. — NEW YORK — Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for.
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Donald Trump set off a civil war in right-wing media, pitting personalities Coulter, Hannity, Ingraham against conservative stalwarts like Will, Erickson — Since the candidate clinched the nomination, the green room has become a chilly place. — In recent years, one of the most important events …
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Lizzie Crocker / The Daily Beast:
How a feud erupted between Vogue fashion editors and street-style bloggers, whose businesses have grown in influence — This week, several senior Vogue editors and critics reflected on Milan Fashion Week before heading to Paris, alighting on a general consensus: The collections were fabulous …
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@jessycadewey, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, Vogue, WWD, Man Repeller, Guardian and POPSUGAR Fashion
R.L. Bynum / Raleigh & Company:
McClatchy executive Robin Johnston explains how the company's print production hubs operate and details plans to produce all 28 newspapers in hubs by Q1 2017 — The Charlotte publishing hub that produces The News & Observer always has been quite busy. It got busier in August …
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Vanity Fair
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Mental Floss announces it will end its print magazine with November-December issue after a 15-year run — Mental Floss magazine is ending its print edition, parent company Dennis Publishing announced on Friday. — “While this is the final issue of mental_floss magazine …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute report details changes at 25 private-sector legacy news orgs across six countries in Europe, including Finland, France, Italy, and Poland — It's hard not to sound like a broken record here, but the digital media environment has upended everything legacy publishers have relied …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Washington Post's new newsroom-wide initiative to shorten copy discourages stories over 1,500 words for digital or 50 inches in print — In August, Washington Post Managing Editor Cameron Barr and his fellow senior editors decided to do something about a problem that had been niggling at them for some time:
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