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9:55 AM ET, February 14, 2016

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Sources: Apple is backing Vital Signs, a six-episode scripted television series starring Dr. Dre, likely to be distributed via Apple Music  —  Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series (Exclusive)  —  ‘Vital Signs,’ the technology giant's inaugural original …
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Bookstore sales rose 2.5% to $11.17B in 2015, the first increase since 2007  —  After Eight Year Slump, 2015 Bookstore Sales Rise  —  Bookstores sales rose 2.5% in 2015, marking the first time since 2007 that sales in the sector were up.  According to preliminary figures released …
Discussion: New York Times and CNNMoney
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Boston Globe election reporter James Pindell on digital-first reporting, using platforms, and staying online  —  James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe's election coverage to everyone by being everywhere  —  In the past five days, Boston Globe political reporter …
Discussion: @niemanlab
Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure  —  Meet the Robin Hood of Science  —  The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Copyright lawyer uses DMCA to try to take down copy of unflattering article about himself  —  Embattled copyright lawyer uses DMCA to remove article about himself  —  Marc Randazza tells Wordpress that the unflattering story “is not fair use.”  —  Well-known copyright lawyer Marc Randazza used …
John Koblin / New York Times:
John Dickerson, Molded by News Legends, Hones His Skills at CBS  —  WASHINGTON — By the standards of Sunday morning news shows, the handoff of the anchor's position on “Face the Nation” on CBS was really quite peaceful.  —  A few days after the longtime anchor Bob Schieffer announced …
Discussion: @koblin, @saletan and @brianstelter
Mattie Kahn / ELLE:
Meet the girls on the bus: reporters on the campaign trail for NBC in 2016 are overwhelmingly women  —  At NBC News, Women Are Telling the Stories  —  This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016  —  The cameras have stopped rolling in the Des Moines café that Andrea Mitchell has turned …
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
China's young reporters give up on journalism: 'You can't write what you want'  —  The ever greater constraints placed on news reporting by Xi Jinping mean many Chinese journalists see no point in pursuing a media career  —  hen a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008 …
Discussion: @marklittlenews, Thanks:@refsrc
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
YouTube buys BandPage to boost direct-to-fan features  —  “We are very excited to announce that BandPage is joining YouTube, a move which dramatically accelerates our shared goal of helping musicians everywhere thrive,” announced BandPage in a blog post.  —  “BandPage is dedicated …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
BitTorrent launches $4.95 annual subscription to remove ads from uTorrent  —  BitTorrent has unveiled a new annual subscription option that removes ads from the torrent-streaming service.  The launch follows a short beta period, and the option — priced at a modest $4.95 per year …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Mount St. Mary's College offers to reinstate newspaper adviser Ed Egan; faculty votes to ask college president to resign  —  Mount St. Mary's faculty asks president to resign by Monday morning  —  Amid a national controversy over academic freedom, the faculty of Mount St. Mary's University …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Global expansion helps The New York Times strengthen its reporting around the world and expand potential readers and revenue streams  —  Is Global Expansion Good for Times Readers?  —  If all goes well for The Times in its latest incarnation — a Spanish-language site …
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Sources: as early as May, Snapchat will let you subscribe to Discover publishers, ensuring their content always appears on your Stories page  —  Snapchat Wants to Let Users Subscribe to Their Favorite ‘Discover’ Publishers  —  Snapchat is working on new plans to boost traffic to the publishers that use its “Discover” platform.
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

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