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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The Verge reports almost all content view growth is in video, particularly on Facebook; article views are flat YoY; AMP views represent 14% of Verge traffic — I'm only crying because I'm happy about new opportunities, I swear — The Verge turns five on November 1st …

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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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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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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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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 …

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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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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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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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify and Apple Music add support for user-uploaded remixes after deal with music rights management firm Dubset — SoundCloud's big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don't release and that isn't on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren't.

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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?

Discussion: @journalism, @streetfightmag and @cmarieharvey

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest, /Film, The Next Web, Hollywood Reporter, CNET and VentureBeat

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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