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The world-renowned art magazine, ArtReview, has partnered with digital publishing experts, Exact Editions, to launch a brand new digital edition, bringing together ArtReview and its sister title ArtReview Asia, specifically aimed at the institutional market.

When severe weather passed through the Atlanta area early this month, Brad Nitz, a meteorologist for a local television station, WSB-TV, fed viewers live video updates on the station’s website, as he has done for years.

Snapchat is working on getting publishers a connection with comScore to start measuring audiences, and give advertisers a better understanding of traffic on the platform, according to sources familiar with the plans.

The photo and video sharing platform has rolled out 60-second videos for all users, which eliminates the previous 15-second cap it had placed on users’ content since it debuted videos in 2013. The change comes shortly after Instagram increased the length of video advertisements to 60 seconds and added a video view counter in February.

British national newspaper The Times has been behind a hard paywall since 2010. That’s meant its speciality has long been in-depth analysis, opinion and commentary for its 402,000 Times and Sunday Times print and digital paying subscribers. It has still featured breaking news, and its sites have continuously updated to reflect that fast news metabolism.

The New York Times is to crack down on social media users who bypass its paywall by linking to articles via Facebook and Twitter. In order to limit such back door entries to its site The Times will trial a limit on the number of articles which can be accessed this way each month without coughing up for a subscription.

Quartz knows the importance of being where its readers are. Increasingly, this means focusing on Facebook video and publishing to messaging platforms.

Jon Steinberg is well-versed in the need for scale for ad-supported digital media, having served as president of BuzzFeed and CEO for North America at Daily Mail. In his new venture, a streaming video service of business news called Cheddar, Steinberg is betting on a different model: licensing fees.