Mediagazer: Forbes Exec Meredith Levien Tapped For Top Advertising Job At New York Times (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

4:10 PM ET, July 15, 2013

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Rightsholders By End Of 2013 — Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users, says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013 …

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Lauren Hockenson / GigaOM:

Radiohead's Yorke pulls music from Spotify, Rdio, citing lack of support for new artists — There has been a lot of chatter — and debate — recently about the royalties offered by streaming music services, most notably an open letter written by the members of Pink Floyd that criticized the rates paid by Pandora.

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

CNN, ABC Veteran David Doss in Talks with Al Jazeera America (EXCLUSIVE) — Producer negotiating a senior editorial role but not the top CEO post — Veteran news producer David Doss is in talks for a senior editorial position with Al Jazeera America. — Doss is not a contender for the cabler's top job of president-CEO.

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America

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Associated Press:

Asiana Airlines confirms it will sue KTVU-TV over broadcast of racist fake pilot names — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Asiana Airlines announced Monday that it was going to sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names …

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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Study finds elders pick web over newspaper, too — In fresh evidence of the mounting demographic challenge facing publishers, a new study from Oxford University found that online sites beat newspapers as the preferred news source for every age group - including those over 55 years of age.

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Associated Press extends live video capabilities with new LiveU deal — Some AP reporters will use LiveU hardware, such as backpack units, to broadcast live video via mobile networks rather than satellite link — Copyright: Image by jsawkins on Flickr. Some rights reserved

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Katerina Matsa / Pew Research Center:

News magazines hit by big drop in ad pages — In a difficult advertising environment for the magazine industry overall, newly-released numbers from the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) show the nation's news magazines being hit particularly hard. — Total consumer magazine ad pages …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Forbes Exec Meredith Levien Tapped For Top Advertising Job At New York Times — In a move suggesting a possible new approach to its advertising business, The New York Times Co. has hired Meredith Kopit Levien of Forbes as its new chief revenue officer. It's the first major appointment …

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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

HuffPo Co-Founder on Where He Thinks Tina Brown's Daily Beast Went Wrong — Just in case you missed it, BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer was the star of the full-page front-of-book Q&A in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. (Though the magazine doesn't ID him as such, he's also managing director …

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Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Murdoch ‘hurt’ by leak of secret recording of meeting with Sun journalists — Rupert Murdoch said he feels “hurt” by the leek of a secret recording of a meeting with Sun journalists. — The recording, which has become known as “the Murdoch tape” included a host of explosive revelations …

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Sold Back to Its Founder, Frommer's to Publish Anew — When Google bought the Frommer's brand of travel guides last August, it was an unlikely union of old and new, of paper and pixels. — It didn't last long. — Arthur Frommer, the 83-year-old founder of the company …

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Forbes names new chief revenue officer — Forbes Media announced the promotion, effective immediately, of the company's senior vice president of digital advertising strategy Mark Howard to chief revenue officer. — In his new role, Howard will be responsible for the U.S. and European digital …