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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Source: along with the NYT, the Daily News received three pages from Trump's 1995 state tax returns, but its reporters couldn't verify that they were real — The New York Times wasn't the only news outlet to receive documents from Donald Trump's tax returns. But they were the only ones to successfully vet them.
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Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump's threat to sue NYT for publishing his taxes is at least the 11th time he's threatened to sue a news org or journalist during his campaign for president
Trump's threat to sue NYT for publishing his taxes is at least the 11th time he's threatened to sue a news org or journalist during his campaign for president
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Washington Post, @jeremybowers, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, Fortune and The Week
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix shares climb above $100 on Monday and Tuesday, fuelled by Disney acquisition rumour — Netflix shares climbed above $100 per share on Monday, to their highest levels since May — fueled by a rumor circulating on Wall Street that Disney might possibly be interested in acquiring the video-streaming leader.
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Multichannel News, @marketwatch, MarketWatch and Fortune
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Yahoo rebrands its main mobile app as Yahoo Newsroom, a personalized news app that lets users share links to stories — Yahoo's homepage used to be the place where web users started their day, reading the top headlines, sports scores, stock updates, and other news. On mobile, that's no longer always the case.
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Yahoo, SocialTimes, @rsingel, CNET, MacRumors, Mashable, Engadget, VentureBeat and 9to5Mac
Bloomberg:
Sources: Gannett and Tronc are working out details of a sale, with no imminent announcement — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Final deal on merger of newspaper publishers said not imminent — Gannett said in talks to buy rival for $18.50-$19 a share
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@ckrewson, @taylorbuley and FishbowlNY
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
A two-week examination of sources in Facebook's Trending section shows frequent use of Yahoo, USA Today, and HuffPo, with HuffPo getting greatest engagement — The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour …
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@lauraelizdavis, @kmoliver, @nicktheandersen and @caitlindewey
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Guardian creates an in-house virtual reality team, composed of five editorial staffers led by Francesca Panetta as executive editor — Guardian News and Media has created an in-house virtual reality team, becoming one of the first UK news media publishers to invest dedicated resources in the emerging technology.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon in talks with EU regulators to settle antitrust probe into e-book contracts with publishers — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Settlement talks with Amazon and publishers at an early stage — EU concerned that Amazon contracts may harm rival retailers
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Bookseller News and Forbes
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
American Society of News Editors changes membership dues tiers to focus on monthly unique visitors rather than print circulation — In a sign of the continuing industry-wide shift away from print, the American Society of News Editors on Tuesday announced that its membership structure …
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@mizellstewart and @testycopyeditor
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA Wiki, a free, interactive tool for reporters, has launched in beta, featuring forums, directories, and explainers focused on federal sunshine law — If confusion is the first step to knowledge, FOIA users must be geniuses. Fee categories. Pre-determination agency actions. Multitrack processing.
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Nieman Lab and @freedomofpress
Timothy Pratt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the Boyle Heights Beat, a bilingual LA publication, where teens provide local stories and receive journalism skills in return — Earlier this month, reporter Samantha Silva sat with Juan Méndez and Josefina Rizo in the living room of their Los Angeles home.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Two weeks since its launch, Vice's UK TV channel, Viceland, scored zero ratings on some nights, with maximum viewership reaching 14K — Channel has only attracted peak audience of just under 14,000 during 9pm to 11pm in its first two weeks of broadcast, according to analysis
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The Drum, Highsnobiety, Business Insider and @thenewsshooter
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Guardian, Wired, are turning to crowdsourcing to identify bad ads on their sites, encouraging staff, readers, to report them, in bid to defeat ad-blocking — Once or twice a week, Jen Soch, evp of commercial delivery for The Guardian, gets an email from a colleague alerting her to a problem ad on the site.
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@lmoses