Mediagazer: Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos — Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses …

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Study: Apple News overwhelmingly favors national outlets in newsletters, with just 14 of the 390 articles reviewed coming from regionally focused publishers — Stung by changes to Facebook's News Feed, publishers are reportedly “falling in love with Apple News”—though the affection may not always be mutual.

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Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner on May 30 in Chicago and calls for thorough investigation — The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner …

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After writing about a person running a big anti-Muslim Twitter account, HuffPost's Luke O'Brien was suspended on Twitter, and he and colleagues were threatened — When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists.

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