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8:55 AM ET, September 28, 2015

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
BuzzFeed news app to launch interview series with Presidential candidates at US colleges, will share video clips via Snapchat instead of TV  —  BuzzFeed college tour to feature Hillary Clinton  —  BuzzFeed is launching an interview series with 2016 presidential candidates …
Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards  —  LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddie Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Plans Expansion To 50 States And Major World Capitals By 2020  —  “With each passing month, we grow more confident our model can save journalism in state capitals and spread it in new countries.”
Agence France-Presse:
Israel suspends officer over assault of AFP journalists on West Bank  —  Israeli military takes action against officer after footage emerges showing journalists had equipment smashed and confiscated  —  The Israeli military has suspended the officer in charge during an incident in the West Bank …
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Johnny Harris / Vox:
Behind El Paquete, a service that downloads and then hand delivers media content weekly in Cuba for $1-$3 a week  —  This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify - all without the internet  —  In Cuba there is barely any internet.  Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar Offers to Acquire Media General in $4.1 Billion Deal to Create TV Station Giant  —  Nexstar Broadcasting Group said Monday it has offered to acquire fellow local TV station owner Media General in a $4.1 billion deal in an attempt to stop the latter from buying Meredith Corp.
Patrick Foster / RadioTimes:
BBC economics editor Robert Peston has been offered the post of ITV's political editor, is expected to announce decision later this week  —  ITV poised to poach Robert Peston from BBC  —  BBC economics editor close to shock switch to ITV  —  ITV are close to pulling off an incredible coup …
The Atlantic:
Glamour of fashion blogging masks reality of long hours and financial instability in an oversaturated market  —  The Invisible Labor of Fashion Blogging  —  Earlier this month, the biannual circus that is New York Fashion Week saw non-stop coverage on social media via Instagram, Twitter …
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date  —  This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of  —  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Esquire's new standalone archive features 50K articles going back to 1933  —  How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive  —  Esquire's first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway.
 
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Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model; the previous DeepSeek v3 version had a custom license

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple says the AirPods Max will get 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio, including Personalized Spatial Audio, and ultra‑low latency in April via a software update

Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:
eToro files for an IPO, with plans to list on the Nasdaq, and reports 2024 revenue of $12.6B, about 96% of which was from cryptoassets, and net income of $192M

 
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