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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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CNET, Wired, @carlquintanilla, @jyarow and Business Insider
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, @rsingel, SocialTimes, CNET, Mashable, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Engadget and 9to5Mac
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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Bloomberg:
Sources: Gannett and Tronc are working out details of a sale, with no imminent announcement — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote Login Final deal on merger of newspaper publishers said not imminent — Gannett said in talks to buy rival for $18.50-$19 a share — Gannett Co. and Tronc Inc …
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@ckrewson, @rafat, @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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MediaNama, @kmoliver, @lauraelizdavis, @nicktheandersen and @caitlindewey
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon in talks with EU regulators to settle antitrust probe into e-book contracts with publishers — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote Login Settlement talks with Amazon and publishers at an early stage — EU concerned that Amazon contracts may harm rival retailers
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Forbes and The Bookseller
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.
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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Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Amazon launches Prime Reading: 1000+ books and mags including Sports Illustrated, for Prime subs in US — In addition to faster shipping for products from its online store, Amazon's Prime subscription plan offers numerous benefits, including unlimited photo storage, as well as music and video streaming.
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VentureBeat and Engadget
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
Wall Street Journal:
Netflix signs deal with theatre chain iPic Entertainment to screen its original movies which will debut on the streaming service simultaneously — Deal is the latest to expand streaming service's theatrical ambitions — Netflix Inc. signed a deal with luxury theater-chain iPic Entertainment …
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