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4:00 PM ET, June 9, 2017

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Robert Little / NPR:
Slain NPR journalists Gilkey and Tamanna weren't random victims; their convoy was targeted by attackers tipped off to the presence of Americans in Afghanistan  —  NPR journalists David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna died a year ago this week, ambushed on a remote road in southern Afghanistan …
BuzzFeed:
NowThis News requires its staffers to sign a non-compete that bars them for two years from taking a job at places like CNN, Vice, BuzzFeed, and Vox  —  New hires at the social news outlet must sign a contract that forbids them from taking a job at places including CNN, Vice, BuzzFeed and Vox.
TechCrunch:
Sirius XM invests $480M in Pandora for a 16% stake; Pandora sells Ticketfly, which it acquired for $450M in October 2015, to Eventbrite for $200M  —  Jun 9, 2017, 6:04 amJun 9, 2017, 11:48 am  —  Troubled streaming music service Pandora has finally found a white knight of sorts to boost …
Tina Dyakon / About Us | Poynter:
The Poynter Institute and the Charles Koch Foundation are creating a program to provide training to student journalists and to encourage civil discourse  —  The project will encourage accountability reporting and robust civil dialogue on three campuses  —  The Poynter Institute …
Alanna Petroff / CNNMoney:
The UK election upset has increased the risk that Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of Sky may be delayed, some analysts say  —  How Trump-Murdoch ties may influence Fox probe  —  The shock U.K. election result has increased the risk that 21st Century Fox's planned takeover of broadcaster Sky …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Taylor Swift's full catalog is returning to Spotify and other streaming services, reversing her stance against free music on ad-supported services  —  After breaking upin 2014, Taylor Swift and Spotify are getting back together.  To celebrate her album 1989 hitting 10 million records sold …
Jessi Hempel / Backchannel:
Backchannel moves to Wired.com from Medium on June 21; editorial chief says Medium is “no longer as focused on helping publications like ours profit”  —  Starting mid-June, we'll publish even more of the work you care about in a new weekly format.  —  Dear Backchannel readers,
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Profile of Ear Hustle, a podcast co-hosted and co-produced by inmates at San Quentin State Prison about life on the inside  —  When Nigel Poor wakes up in the dead of night with a concern about her podcast, she can't fire off a text to her co-host.  She can't give him a quick call, drop him a line on Twitter or stop by his house.
Annlee Ellingson / Los Angeles Business Journal:
Stem, a payment platform for musicians and artists, raises $8M Series A to scale its product  —  With musicians and other creators distributing their content across the web, it can be hard for them to get paid — especially when platforms like YouTube, Apple Music, iTunes, Soundcloud and Spotify don't know whom to pay what.
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Employees at Al Jazeera's Washington bureau fear that Qatar's diplomatic crisis will cause the network to close or cut funding  —  But staff tell HuffPost they're used to uncertainty.  —  WASHINGTON Several Arab nations' severing of ties with Qatar sparked speculation that the wealthy Gulf state …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times re-examined its February 14 story on Trump campaign links to Russia that Comey testified was inaccurate and stands by its reporting  —  After re-examining its Feb. 14 article alleging contacts between members of the Trump campaign and senior Russian intelligence officials during …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Comey reinforced or confirmed the bulk of recent mainstream reporting on Trump, but denounced one NYT story as almost entirely inaccurate in his testimony
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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