Mediagazer: Spotify May Need To Be More ‘Asian’ To Dominate Region (Victoria Ho/TechCrunch)

8:50 AM ET, April 29, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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Guardian:

Iraq bans al-Jazeera and nine other TV channels over ‘sectarian bias’ — Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed — The Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that they had revoked the operating licences of the broadcaster al-Jazeera …

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Victoria Ho / TechCrunch:

Spotify May Need To Be More ‘Asian’ To Dominate Region — Asia's fragmented music fanbase and subscription habits may stand between Spotify and its total domination of the region, or at least so its competitors hope. — The music streaming service recently launched in the Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Financial Times: ‘There is no drawback to working in HTML5’ — FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw on apps evolution, paywall prospects and why BuzzFeed is ‘absolutely fascinating’ — Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011 …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Huffington Post to launch German edition — The Huffington Post has announced the launch of a German-language edition for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in conjunction with Tomorrow Focus AG, a provider of digital media content in Germany. The partnership will be led largely by Tomorrow Focus AG …

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Can Politico spot gender issues? — Politico on Tuesday night told of a dire situation at the New York Times. Executive Editor Jill Abramson, says the story by Dylan Byers, is “on the verge of losing the support of the newsroom” on account of her “brusque” manner. She goes to meetings and makes people miserable.

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John Wihbey / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don't) and the libel potential of a retweet — Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers?

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Felix Gillette / Businessweek:

How ‘Mother Jones’ Turned Itself Into an Online ‘Secret Tape’ Factory — First there was the hidden video of Mitt Romney criticizing the 47 percent. Next came the surreptitious recording of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) aides mocking Ashley Judd. And then, on the morning of April 25 …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Number 10 hands out Twitter exclusives to favoured journalists — Downing Street aims to secure goodwill from journalists by revealing news before its official announcement by ministers — Asked in 2009 why he didn't use Twitter, David Cameron famously responded “too many twits might make a twat” .

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