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1. Mashable Lays Off Staff in ‘Strategic Shift’ Toward Video (Dylan Byers / CNNMoney)
2. Verizon to Proceed With Yahoo Bid, Google Weighs Offer (Alex Sherman, Scott Moritz, Brian Womack / Bloomberg)
3. Uh-oh, Some Publishers See a Drop in Facebook Traffic (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
4. What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times (John Geraci / Harvard Business Review)
5. Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself (Sarah Frier / Bloomberg)
6. Digital Publishers Put Brave Software on Notice that Substituting Publishers’ Ads is Illegal (Newspaper Association of America)
7. Want to Start a Small Data Journalism Team in Your Newsroom? Here Are 8 Steps (Scott Klein / Poynter)
