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Exclusive: Apple's Cook, music mogul Iovine discuss new music service — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a potential partnership involving Beats …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Beats spins off Daisy with $60m funding led by Access Industries
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Felix Salmon:
The problem with online freelance journalism — Nate Thayer caused quite a stir in the Twittersphere this morning when he published the email correspondence between himself and Olga Khazan, an editor at the Atlantic. Khazan had seen Thayer's 4,300-word piece for North Korea News about …
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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The new economics of media: If you want free content, there's an almost infinite supply
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James Bennet / The Atlantic:
From James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
People Writing For Free On The Internet Is An Enormous Boon To Society
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Zev Chafets / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off Camera — Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful—and controversial—characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can't get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools — For nearly two years, Joel I. Klein helped Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation weather a phone-hacking scandal at the company's British tabloids with the promise that he would eventually be able to return to the role the company hired him for …
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism — At the Launch Conference in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the rise …
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Condé Nast's Answer to Programmatic Buying — Condé Nast has introduced a new digital marketing product, one of its first since the company overhauled its corporate sales group last summer to tap into potential growth in online advertising. — The new product …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet the first class: Six media startups get accelerated into Silicon Valley by Matter — Matter, the startup accelerator focused on media entrepreneurs, just launched its first class, which includes startups focused on interactive publishing, video analytics, and audio storytelling.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Next Issue Media, AKA Netflix For Magazines, Hits Windows 8, Targets 1 Million User Mark — The next few months will be big for Next Issue Media. On Wednesday, the digital magazine service goes live on Windows 8 devices, adding the third leg to a stool that already contains the iPad and Android tablets.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
New Dish, New Media Update — We're on the verge of our first 30 days with the meter installed and this is the result: — Your subscriptions totaled $100,000 in 30 days. We're psyched, even though we remain $270,000 below our 12-month goal to keep the Dish as it is.
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Bobbie Whiteman / Variety:
Hugo Chavez Dead: Media See No End to Tough Control … Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday but with his anointed successors, Vice President Nicolas Maduro or National Assembly prexy Diosdado Cabello, likely to take over, Venezuelan media can expect the same strong-arm tactics …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Why retail apps should worry publishers — From Best Buy to CVS and from Kroger to Macy's, the biggest buyers of newspaper advertising have launched sophisticated smartphone apps to establish increasingly direct and profitable relationships with individual customers.
Gordon MacMillan / The Wall Blog:
How Twitter won the social media battle for journalism — Polis, the journalism think-tank at the LSE, has published an in-depth report looking at the value of social media to journalism, specifically public service broadcasting, and it highlights how Twitter has come to dominate news.
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