Mediagazer: Study finds elders pick web over newspaper, too (Newsosaur/Reflections of a Newsosaur)

11:35 AM ET, July 15, 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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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Artists 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 2014, and that it has already paid …

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John Tozzi / Businessweek:

A New Way for Musicians to Make Money on YouTube — In 2001, composer Scott Schreer wrote a roughly two-minute saxophone-heavy acid jazz instrumental called Love Doctor, and the song lives in an online catalogue of music that he licenses to film and TV producers.

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Matthew Garrahan / FT Magazine:
Google invests in YouTube studio in LA

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America — As the new US network is finally set to launch, serious concerns arise about its brand and intent: especially from within the organization — When Al Jazeera last December purchased Current TV in order to launch its own …

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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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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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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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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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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Goodreads hit with copyright suit over fan photo — Goodreads is being sued after a member of the book-sharing social network posted a celebrity photo to the site. — A photo agency has filed a lawsuit against Goodreads, the Amazon-owned social network for book lovers, over a celebrity image posted by one of the site's members.

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.

Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:

Greece Resumes Official State TV Programming — ATHENS — Exactly a month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece closed the state television network ERT in a cost-cutting move that almost brought down his fragile coalition government, a bare-bones version of the service was back on the air on Thursday.

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Roben Farzad / Businessweek:

How Investing in Print Could Pay Off — News Corp. Time Warner. Now, Tribune. They're all spinning off their declining print businesses. — Why would anyone buy these orphans? Because they will offer pure plays on what promises to be more mergers and acquisitions in the industry.