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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
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Jackson McHenry / Vulture:
Gimlet Media cut Starlee Kine's Mystery Show as she was working on its second season; she is in discussions with Gimlet to produce the podcast independently — This might explain why you haven't heard much news about that podcast you love: Mystery Show, the podcast that charmingly investigated …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media is set to debut its new finance website Vice Money on Sunday, to coincide with premier of Vice News Tonight on HBO and Vice News site relaunch — Vice Media is set to debut its finance and business news and video website, Vice Money, as the youth-targeted media company parlays its brand into another vertical category.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Bill de Blasio's public snub of a NY Post reporter was unique in the history of discord between City Hall and the press, escalating a long war with the tabloids — For weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio has barely disguised his disgust for the coverage of his administration in The New York Post.
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
ProPublica's Data Store, which has pulled in $200K since 2014, is now selling datasets for other news orgs, building on first partnership with the Daily News — When Sarah Ryley, an investigative reporter at the New York Daily News, filed a records request with the city's police department earlier …
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@janebsinger, @niemanreports, @shansquared and @niemanlab
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Economist is joining Snapchat's Discover feature, publishing 14-17 snaps each weekend; the partnership could help Snapchat appeal to older users — Snapchat is bringing more serious news to its Discover section, adding a new channel from The Economist this weekend.
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@deanroper, @jeremymbarr, @meena_thiru, @margarita, @digiday, @deniselaw_, @tomstandage and @digiday
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on calling out lies, embracing video, and building a more digital newsroom — How long is two years in editor years? — Leading any daily newspaper in this age is challenging, but leading The New York Times is an exercise unto itself.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Oculus announces exclusive deal for Blade Runner 2049 movie content and a deal with Disney — The newly announced “Blade Runner 2049” will extend beyond the movie screen when it is being released in October of 2017: sci-fi fans will also step into the world of a movie with virtual reality experiences …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew study: about 40% of American adults under 50 prefer reading news, mostly online; more than half of Americans over 50 opt for watching the news on TV — When it comes to technology's influence on America's young adults, reading is not dead - at least not the news.
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Nieman Lab, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY, @yappelbaum, @mattdpearce, @stevesilberman, @mtdukes, FishbowlDC, @pewresearch, @brianboyer and @robinkwong
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
China's Dalian Wanda Group faces scrutiny for Hollywood investments as US Rep. John Culberson asks for Justice Department review — Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, has set his sights on Hollywood in recent years with the acquisition of several entertainment companies.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Variety and The Wrap
Shaun Walker / Guardian:
A decade after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, news organizations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin — A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin
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@kasparov63, @nicknotned, @lotteleicht1, @guardianneweast, @paulachertok and Melville House Books
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Daybreak is a new morning briefing for Bloomberg's roughly 325K terminal subscribers; three separate editions are produced by teams in NY, Hong Kong, and London — A year and a half ago, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got some editors together around an idea: Could Bloomberg be grabbing its readers earlier in the day?
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@streetfightmag, @journalism and @cmarieharvey
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