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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 …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Vine struggled to monetize and compete with Instagram and Snapchat amid executive churn, while failing to find strategic benefits for Twitter — Closing the loop — The thing about Vine becoming the internet's premiere tool for making short-form videos is that it happened almost completely by accident.
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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
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@cwarzel, Editor & Publisher, New York Times, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @greggweiss, @kerrymflynn, @greggweiss, BuzzFeed, @katelosse and @anthony
Vine:
Twitter says it is discontinuing the Vine mobile app “in the coming months”
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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.
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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Julia M. Klein / Columbia Journalism Review:
Review of Amazon's Good Girls Revolt, new series loosely based on the 46 women staffers at Newsweek who sued for gender discrimination in landmark case in 1970 — Anna Camp, left, Erin Darke and Genevieve Angelson appear in a scene from Amazon Studios' “Good Girls Revolt.” (Amazon Studios)
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Facebook:
Facebook launches election tool with information on national, state, and local candidates and issues, lets voters choose to share choices for specific races — November 8 is around the corner and we want to help you get the information you need to prepare for Election Day.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Recode, The Next Web and Mashable
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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@newyorker, @newyorker, @sairakh and FishbowlNY
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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@noahchestnut, @eramshaw, @poynter, @lauraelizdavis and @digiphile
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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@laurahazardowen, @fedecherubini and @niemanlab
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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Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, VICE and @withdrake
Dave McKenna / Deadspin:
Profile of Jennifer Frey, a fast-rising sports journalism star in the '90s who died at age 47 because of alcoholism — Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. — Frey's obituary in the Washington Post, her last full-time employer, merely gave “multiple organ failure” as the cause of her March 26 death.
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Longreads, @kottke, @deadspin, @blakehounshell, @dvnjr, @elilake, @longreads, @ae53, @soapboxbubba, @lahlahlindsey, @cjane87, @lkoturner, @jeffreylevicki, @paolaboivin, @johnmcquaid, Washington Post and @petersterne
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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