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Aimed at Londoners, the app will include stories from The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London. —JL

“After months of intensive lobbying, the publishers are confident that the European Commission will in the next few months propose new rules to strengthen their bargaining power against the U.S. Internet giants, lobbyists for several of Europe’s leading newspaper owners said.” —JB

“A list of safety guidelines that specify, among other things, that news organizations treat freelancers the same way they would full-time staffers in cases of kidnap or injury.” —JB

“And thanks to El Niño, the cyclical contraction of capital in publishing every few years, it’s going to especially brutal this year at newspapers and magazines.” —JB

“Our own curators do not act as reporters or creators of original content; instead, they organize and present compelling content that already exists on Twitter in a straightforward, easy-to-consume way.” —JB

“TIBT aims to encapsulate the discourse on the social media platform that occurred in the previous 24 hours — from cultural happenings and politics to entertainment and viral comedy.” —JE

“I invited Vox Media’s CEO Jim Bankoff to explain online ads, and how we handle them at The Verge and our other sites.” —LO

“The new collaboration with Yahoo will focus on short-form video content with a particular focus on the BBC’s international news, science, tech and business reporting drawn from the BBC’s global site BBC.com. Around 200 BBC News videos will be syndicated to Yahoo on a monthly basis and will start appearing on their sites this month.” —JL

From Priya Ganapati, who formerly worked on The Wall Street Journal’s news app and is now at Quartz. —LO