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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How a phone tip quickly led to David Fahrenthold's story about a 2005 video with lewd Trump comments about women — Reporter David Fahrenthold got a phone call around 11 a.m. Friday from a source with a tip about Donald Trump. The source asked: Would Fahrenthold be interested in seeing some previously unaired video of Trump?
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Snapchat moves user posts to top of Stories feature, demotes content from Discover publishing partners, stops auto-advancing Stories, and adds Playlist feature — You'll see all your friends' Stories first now. — Snapchat is making a small but important tweak to how it displays, and then plays, user Stories inside its app.
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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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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Snap, formerly Snapchat, hires New York Post President David Brinker to lead business development for the company's content division — Snapchat has hired New York Post president David Brinker to an unspecified role on the company's content division, Variety has learned exclusively.
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J.K. Trotter / Gizmodo:
Lawyer Charles Harder, hired by Thiel in earlier suits, continues legal threats against Gizmodo Media over older posts and against Univision for staffer's quote — Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel has defended his legal attack against Gawker Media by claiming the company …
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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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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:
Bloomberg, CBS News, WSJ, ESPN, and other publishers have opted out of Facebook Instant Articles, as they evaluate the feature's costs and benefits — A year after Facebook Instant Articles launched, 100 or so publishers were taking advantage of the feature, which loads mobile articles lightning fast.
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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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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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