Mediagazer: Report: Facebook and Spotify Plan To Help Friends Listen Together (Eliot Van Buskirk/Evolver.fm)

4:20 PM ET, May 25, 2011

Top News:

Om Malik / gigaom.com:

Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM — Reed Elsevier Ventures — the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies — is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM, GigaOM.tv, GigaOM Events and GigaOM Pro.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Pulse2, paidContent, Om.Is.Me, @jason, VentureBeat, silicontap.com, Audience Development, TechCrunch and SAI

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
It's Hilarious That Mike Arrington Gets Beat Up For Investing In Startups When Om Malik Is A Partner At A VC Firm

Discussion: Future of Journalism and The Wire

Parmy Olson / Disruptors:

Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify — . — Facebook has partnered with Spotify on a music-streaming service that could be launched in as little as two weeks, sources close to the deal have told Forbes. — The integrated service is currently going through testing …

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, Forbes.com, paidContent:UK, Mashable!, Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, The Next Web, Electronista, Engadget and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:
Report: Facebook and Spotify Plan To Help Friends Listen Together

Discussion: Future of Journalism

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Bloomberg's Tyrangiel: Website Revamp Represents Best Bid For Influence — The remaking of Bloomberg.com into a more appealing news site for a general business professional and major brand advertisers is being fully rolled out this morning with a heavy dose of opinion.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Bloomberg Blog, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, Poynter, eMedia Vitals and NYConvergence.com

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

‘The Daily’ Is About To Hit A Million Downloads — This next panel I'm very excited about, tablet publishing. We've got the publisher of The Daily, Greg Clayme and CEO of Betaworks, John Borthwick, who until recently was also the CEO of one of the Betaworks ' companies, bitly …

Discussion: Adweek, Betabeat, FishbowlNY, App Advice and MacStories

Zeke Turner / WWD:

E-commerce Luring Top Editorial Talent — Susan Lyne, Ruth Reichl and Kevin Ryan — Photo By Jimi Celeste/PatrickMcMullan.com — Last week, Ruth Reichl got herself into a sticky situation. — It was Wednesday night on West 26th Street and the former Gourmet editor in chief …

Thanks:laureni

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Glenn Beck Planning Web TV Channel GBTV, Tagline: ‘The Truth Lives Here’ — Outgoing Fox News host Glenn Beck and his company, Mercury Radio Arts, are developing a new service called “GBTV,” which will be a web-based TV channel, according to sources familiar with the matter as well as trademark applications filed by the company.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News and Big Journalism

CNBC:

CNBC Anchor Mark Haines Dies Unexpectedly at Age 65 — Veteran journalist Mark Haines, a fixture on CNBC for 22 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening. He was 65 years old. — Haines, founding anchor of CNBC's morning show “Squawk Box,” was co-anchor of the network's “Squawk on the Street” …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Will Publishers Choose the Open Web Over Apple's Walled Garden? — More and more magazine publishers are signing up with Apple to offer subscriptions through their iPad apps, including Conde Nast — which rolled out in-app subscriptions for Wired and GQ today — and Hearst.

Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:mathewi

Marci Windsheimer / Open:

NYTWrites: Exploring Topics and Bylines — Irene Ros, a research developer at the IBM Visual Communication Lab, has created a visualization that explores New York Times bylines and topics. NYTWrites uses the Article Search API to show the diversity of topics covered by individual reporters.

Thanks:steverubel

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Duke 'Reporter's Lab' aims to bring new tools to investigative reporting — Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy has launched The Reporter's Lab to modernize the difficult, often drudging work of deep-dive investigations. “For professional and pro-am journalists …

Foster Kamer / New York Observer:

Closely Held Company: Is the Author of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Too Schmoozy With Wall Street? — A few hours after HBO's Too Big to Fail, the star-studded adaptation of New York Times financial reporting wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin's best-selling account of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers …

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Martha Stewart to Rejoin Martha Stewart Living Board — Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is about to get a lot more of the Martha Stewart touch: She is expected to rejoin its board of directors in the third quarter of this year, the company announced Wednesday. — Related Articles:

Discussion: Folio, Multichannel, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable and MediaPost

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day — Last year YouTube made a big deal of its fifth birthday, with a special Web site, special messages from the likes of Conan O'Brien, etc. — This year's commemoration is more muted. Basically, just a blog post that notes that the site is really, really big.

Discussion: CNET News, more at Techmeme »

Noreen Malone / Slate:

Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly. — According to the Associated Press Stylebook—Slate's bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related—there are two main prose uses—the abrupt change and the series within a phrase—for the em dash.

Discussion: Change of Subject

Eben Harrell / Time:

The Great British Battle Between Privacy and the Press — Manchester United's Ryan Giggs, on May 24, 2011 — It was the final act in what Britain's Daily Mail called “one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in modern times.” Chafing under a court order that barred the press …