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8:55 AM ET, May 26, 2011

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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 …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Zuckerberg: All Of Media Should Go Social Like Games Have  —  Facebook won't try to offer music, movie or book services - but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grand pronouncements for those sectors nevertheless. … Whilst almost religiously celebrating internet users' ability to share …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Evolver.fm:
Report: Facebook and Spotify Plan To Help Friends Listen Together
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Takes Online Rivals' Technology for a Spin  —  Comcast Corp., facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire.  —  The country's largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting …
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.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ed Schultz Apologizes On The Ed Show For Calling Laura Ingraham A ‘Right-Wing Slut’  —  MSNBC's Ed Schultz, suspended by MSNBC Wednesday evening for calling conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his nationally syndicated radio show, addressed his comments …
Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
HuffPo Employees Flee AOL After “Brutal” “Awful” “Worst Few Weeks”  —  Since Aol purchased the Huffington Post from Arianna Huffington in February for $315 million most of the subsequent coverage has focused on the widespread layoffs of Aol employees; the hiring of experienced reporters …
Discussion: Future of Journalism and SAI
Matt Silverman / Mashable!:
Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple's Grip on Tablet Publishing?  —  By now there's little question that the iPad has defined the modern tablet, and media companies have tackled the promising concept of digital subscription publishing with varying degrees of success.
Thanks:laureni
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Will Publishers Choose the Open Web Over Apple's Walled Garden?
Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:mathewi
Les Luchter / MediaPost:
Study: Online Video Ads Beat TV Ads In Viewer Recall  —  Viewers pay more attention to online video ads than to traditional TV commercials and also recall them better, according to new research that utilized Affectiva's facial tracking algorithms and second-by-second biometric modeling of cognition, excitement and stress levels.
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Future of TV?  ‘American Idol’ taps Facebook events  —  For several days leading up to this weeks two-episode season finale of American Idol, the show's website encouraged fans to RSVP to the show on Facebook:  —  As of this afternoon, 25,000 people RSVP'd for the event, some inviting their friends to attend, as well.
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  —  Leading tech writer Michael Arrington has taken a lot of heat lately for his decision to get back into investing in startups and venture funds.
Discussion: Future of Journalism and The Wire
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Jessica Roy / 10,000 Words:
Humans vs. Cyborgs: Four Ways @NYTimes Has Changed This Week  —  On Monday, New York Times social media editors Lexi Mainland and Liz Heron announced from the @NYTimes account that all week long, they would be engaging in a social experiment: the automated @NYTimes Twitter account …
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 …
Jason / Nokia Conversations:
CNN and Nokia announce plans to collaborate to deliver mobile news and rich mapping  —  GLOBAL - Today Nokia and news network CNN have announced plans for an international agreement which will see Nokia providing rich mapping services to the network.  You may have already seen the first fruits …
Discussion: CNN
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory  —  The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history.  Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network  —  By  —  At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings …
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
‘Free’ New York Times Twitter feed appears to be shut down (The Cutline)  —  ‘Free’ New York Times Twitter feed appears to be shut down  —  When the New York Times first unveiled its much-anticipated online paywall in March, several enterprising hackers soon discovered ways to circumvent it.
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Tom Acitelli / New York Observer:
Sulzberger on The Times' Print Lifers.... Dueling Water Analogies for Web Media
Discussion: Betabeat and Editors Weblog
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” …
Financial Times:
Digital media need Oprah's tastemaking touch  —  The more urgent question for publishers and for content owners is whether the daytime talkshow queen can replicate her influence online, or whether anyone else can recreate it
Discussion: Media Decoder
 
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Ujala Sehgal / FishbowlNY:
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day
Discussion: CNET News and Future of Journalism
Ebazilian / Adweek:
Jann Wenner Pulls Out of Authorized Bio
Eben Harrell / Time:
The Great British Battle Between Privacy and the Press
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Zeke Turner / WWD:
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL's Crandall Returns To Wenner Media As Head Of Digital Content
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
 
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