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12:05 PM ET, October 29, 2016

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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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Twitter says it is discontinuing the Vine mobile app “in the coming months”
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 …
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The purchase of Wirecutter means The New York Times needs to be transparent about affiliate links, offer explanations to readers, and set clear site-wide rules  —  The New York Times grabbed a few modest headlines earlier this week when it purchased a popular website called The Wirecutter …
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.”
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.
Andy Beckett / Guardian:
Bolstered by Brexit, UK's right-wing tabloids have reclaimed their political influence after years of stagnation and declining readership  —  But now, in Theresa May's Brexit Britain, they look more powerful than ever  —  wo years ago, when the UK had a future in the European Union …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Harvard Business Review drops from 10 print issues to 6 in 2017, will publish 6 online series, called The Big Idea, weighs paywall strategies and sponsorships  —  What should the experience of a magazine be when it's moved online?  —  As the subscription-based Harvard Business Review drops …
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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Profile of Jennifer Frey, a fast-rising sports journalism star in the '90s who died at age 47 because of alcoholism
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Male-focused UK media companies Unilad and the Lad Bible, two of the biggest players in online video, are planning US expansions for 2017