Mediagazer: Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? (Tim Carmody/The Verge)

12:40 PM ET, March 12, 2013

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Telegraph group cuts 80 print jobs as daily and Sunday titles merge — The Telegraph group is to shed 80 of its 550 editorial staff as part of what the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, calls a root and branch restructure of the business. It will mean the complete merger of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as a seven-day operation.

Discussion: Guardian, pressgazette.co.uk and The Wall Blog

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Vevo Starts 24-Hour Ad-Supported Music Television Network — Vevo LLC, a provider of music videos on Google Inc. (GOOG)'s YouTube, started a 24-hour music TV network that begins online and will expand to at least one pay- TV system later this year. — The broadcast-style network starts today …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Fast Company, AdAge and @ryanlawler

Mike Shields / Adweek:
Vevo Launches Linear Web Network With an Eye on Cable

Discussion: The Next Web

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Politico hits 1,000 Pro subscriptions and plans to launch a magazine — Over a thousand organizations are now using subscription site Politico Pro, the politics website announced Tuesday. Politico says the site reaches 7,000 professionals per month and has a renewal rate of 96 percent.

Discussion: Beet.TV and Nieman Journalism Lab

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Spotify: Growing like mad, yet so far to go — The digital music service has added another 1 million subscribers since December, bringing its global total of paying customers to 6 million. — AUSTIN, Texas — It's not a bluegrass jam on the legendary Austin City Limits stage …

Discussion: VentureBeat, paidContent, AllThingsD and Softpedia News

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Said Expanding Pandora-Like Web Radio Worldwide

Discussion: hypebot and The Verge

Hillel Aron / LA Weekly:

Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times? — The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy. A bombshell. It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren. — Multiple sources tell L.A. Weekly that Charles and David Koch …

Discussion: Poynter and Politico

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice — A full audio recording of the whistleblower is released today despite a court prohibition on such recordings — The court-martial proceeding of Bradley Manning has, rather ironically, been shrouded in extreme secrecy …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Forbes, Boing Boing, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, The Nation, BuzzFeed, Pressing Issues and emptywheel

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Mobile Publishing Platform Pressly Raises $1.5 Million, Launches To Public At Last — Pressly, the mobile publishing platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt finalist which makes websites smartphone and tablet-friendly, is today launching to the public, accompanied by $1.5 million in outside funding …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Market Wire and The Next Web

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? — After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay — “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007. “People want to own their music.” At that time, Apple had solved the problem …

Discussion: The Billfold, @pkafka and Gizmodo

Bryan Goldberg / PandoDaily:

Gawker admits defeat, tries to replicate Bleacher Report and Huffington Post — I don't cover news for PandoDaily, but I figured that I would give it a shot today. — Gawker has thrown in the towel on their old model. Today, their popular Deadspin blog has announced that they are creating a …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
Welcome To The New Deadspin — Hi. The place looks different, doesn't it?

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Vimeo now lets video producers sell and rent their work - and keep 90% of the revenue — Vimeo's business model has taken a major step forward today with the launch of Vimeo On Demand, an easy way for video producers to distribute and earn revenue from their work.

Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Guardian and @pkafka

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

The New York Times prototypes an all-new NYTimes.com, with a cleaner app-like design — With 668,000 paying digital subscribers, and Q4 revenue of $575.8m in 2012, The New York Times is often held aloft as some sort of poster child of traditional news' ability to transform into a successful digital enterprise.

Discussion: Business Wire, Poynter, Journalism.co.uk, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Politico and The Huffington Post

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Conde Nast to launch Glamour and GQ video networks — Conde Nast Entertainment, overseen by Dawn Ostroff, is launching video channels based on its magazines. — Publisher Conde Nast is creating video networks based on its Glamour and GQ magazines. — The move is part of a broader expansion …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, WWD, Associated Press and Fashionista

James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:

Baauer's ‘Harlem Shake’ Hits No. 1 With Unlicensed Samples — Hector Delgado gave up being a reggaetón artist five years ago to become an evangelical preacher in Puerto Rico. So it was something of a surprise when his former manager, Javier Gómez, called him three weeks ago …

Discussion: Plagiarism Today, The Raw Story, Music Week, The Daily Beast, Softpedia News, Techdirt, Fuse, BBC, Business Insider, ANIMAL, Rolling Stone, NME, Media Decoder, philebrity.com and The Music Network

Sam Thielman / Adweek:

The New CNN Gets Into the Big Data Game — CNN is once again trying its hand at the analytics game in the upfront, only this time it has the backing of a larger partnership. The cable news network is joining forces with Nielsen and Arbitron to create CNN All-Screen, which will measure …

Discussion: TVNewser