Most TV viewers know MS NOW as a cable network. What if it were a social one, too? When the Versant Media-backed outlet launches a new subscription-based app this week, it does so with the vow to help ...

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Late last year, it became official. MSNBC broke away from NBC and renamed itself ...