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John Gapper / Financial Times:
NYT editor Dean Baquet says that US cable networks have blurred the line between entertainment and news this election season by pandering to partisan viewers — US cable news networks have played a “ridiculous” role in the presidential campaign by blurring the line between entertainment …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vine stars mourn the closing of the app that helped launch their careers, though they've shifted focus to other platforms like YouTube and Instagram — Twitter is shutting down Vine, its six-second video app, and the unexpected move touched off a wave of anger, bemusement and sadness among the platform's biggest creators.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Plan to shut down Vine suggests Twitter finally recognizes itself as a news service, focusing on live, current events — Welcome to the relevant, indispensable (but maybe kind of joyless) new Twitter. — On Thursday morning, Twitter announced it is closing down Vine …
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Vine:
Twitter says it is discontinuing the Vine mobile app “in the coming months”
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
As print ad revenue decline accelerates, biggest newspaper companies in US brace for cost cuts, layoffs — The gloom began earlier this month, when Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, sent a memo to employees that said, in part, “every story should be as short as it needs to be.”
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Profile of Marco Chacon, founder of fake conservative news site RealTrueNews, an initially modest prank whose stories have managed to fool even Fox News — Marco Chacon had only spent about $20 on his conservative news website, RealTrueNews, when he heard his words in prime time on Fox News' The Kelly File.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The New Yorker has redesigned its Goings on About Town section for desktop and mobile, with grids of listings, a video series, an interactive events map, more — Goings On About Town has been part of The New Yorker since Harold Ross produced the first issue of the magazine, in February, 1925.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Texas Tribune rebrands its political site Texas Weekly as The Blast, a paid newsletter emailed to subscribers daily — Texas is shaping up as a surprisingly important state in the presidential election this year: Hillary Clinton is closing in on Donald Trump (the race in Texas is closer …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: banks financing Gannett potential takeover of Tronc have backed out, putting merger in doubt — Banks financing Gannett's potential takeover of Tronc have backed out, according to people familiar with the matter, putting a merger of the newspaper companies in doubt, Bloomberg News reports.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at New York magazine's The Strategist, a new shopping recommendations site financed via affiliate sales, and one of the first initiatives of new CEO — “Service journalism” got renewed attention this week with the news that The New York Times shelled out $30 million for The Wirecutter and The Sweethome.
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Vice launching gaming vertical Waypoint on October 31, edited by Austin Walker, promoted with a 72-hour gaming live-stream on Twitch that starts today 12PM ET — Vice Media is expanding its digital offerings with the launch of Waypoint, a vertical dedicated to gaming. — Waypoint will launch Monday, October 31.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Larry Page or another civic-minded billionaire should buy Twitter, which serves as the highest-circulation short-form “newspaper” on earth — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Twitter is a communications marvel, with 317 million active users who instantaneously convey a collective reaction to news.
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Lacey Donohue, deputy executive editor of Gizmodo Media Group, is leaving next month to take an editorial role at Hulu — ‘TRUMP TV’ WAS KUSHNER'S THREAT TO ROGER AILES — That's a juicy tidbit from Bloomberg Businessweek's latest cover story, “Inside the Trump Bunker,” out this morning …
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