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1. Department Of Justice Says It No Longer Needs Apple’s Help To Unlock iPhone (Laura Sydell / NPR)
2. Oculus Rift For News? Not Quite Yet (Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab)
3. From Nieman Reports: The Four Kinds of People You Meet in Newsrooms Going Digital (Gabriel Dance / Nieman)
4. Jill Abramson’s Longform Journalism Venture With Steve Brill Is On Hold, For Now (Benjamin Mullin / Poynter)
5. The New York Times May Make It Harder to Use Facebook and Twitter to Jump Its Paywall (Peter Kafka / Re/code)
6. Vice Media’s Head of Ad Sales Departs In Wake of Shock 17.4% Decline In Web Traffic (John Glenday / The Drum)
7. The Media and Trump: Aiding, Abetting and Underestimating (Mathew Ingram / Fortune)
8. Genius Web Annotator vs. One Young Woman With a Blog (Brady Dale / New York Observer)