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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Rdio to announce ad-supported free tier in partnership with radio operator Cumulus — Online Music Service Rdio in Deal With Cumulus — As radio broadcasters go digital and online music services try to stand out in a crowded market, both are finding ways to scratch each other's backs.
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GigaOM, Radio & Television …, Fast Company, Electronista, The Verge, CNET, App Advice, Engadget and The Next Web
David Carr / New York Times:
Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism's New Peril — When the guy who ruined the Internet with banner ads tells you that a new kind of advertising might destroy journalism, it tends to get your attention. — That's not entirely fair. Joe McCambley, founder of The Wonderfactory …
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eMedia Vitals, @carr2n, @jeffjarvis, @jeremyzilar, @rajunarisetti, @brianstelter and @hunterwalk
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNN Wins First Primetime Emmys with ‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’ — CNN's “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown” took home two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards last night. This is the first time CNN has been awarded a primetime Emmy. (The network has won several News & Documentary Emmy awards).
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Deadline.com and CNN
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Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable:
Netflix Wins Two Emmys for ‘House of Cards’ Over Major TV Dramas — The first barrage of winged-woman Emmy statuettes were handed out at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy on Sunday, and Netflix won the night's first one for House of Cards in the Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series category
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themusic.com.au, Hispanic Business Magazine and Deadline.com
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Politico Plans for New York Are Drawing Some Doubt — Until last week, Capital New York was an obscure Web publication that covered New York City culture and politics with a handful of staff members. It produced long, thoughtful pieces on topics like the Metropolitan Opera and the finances …
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@escarry, @mlcalderone, @meriwetherk and @rachelsklar
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy — Video streaming giant Netflix sees itself as one of the most prominent competitors to the many pirate sites that offer video content without owners' permission. — However, these pirate sites also offer Netflix valuable information …
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Forbes, BBC, The Verge, Softpedia News, CNET, Daily Mail, @mindcrash, WebProNews, @codinghorror, Electronista, The Raw Story, Boing Boing and Variety
Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:
Upworthy is doubling its staff after $8 million Series A funding round — Upworthy, a content aggregator focused on emotionally hard-hitting “stuff that matters,” has announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by Spark Capital (early investors in Tumblr and Twitter) …
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TechCrunch, paidContent, AllThingsD and Forbes
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media — Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm.
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eMedia Vitals, Business Insider, SocialTimes, GigaOM, @ia, @dougsaunders, @kellyfaircloth, @jsnell, @panzer, @jeffjarvis, @felixsalmon, @mathewi, @ryan, @berrydm and @hunterwalk
Brian Patrick Eha / Entrepreneur:
New York Times to Invest in Startups Through Its Own Incubator — The New York Times Co. is going to invest in early-stage media startups through its incubator, timeSpace. — An experimental program within the newspaper company, timeSpace provided for three startups to spend …
Marie Gilot / Knight Foundation:
More than 41,000 sign up for Northwestern U's media MOOC — Understanding Media by Understanding Google with Owen R. Youngman on YouTube — More than 41,000 people have signed up for Northwestern University's first media Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
Carlo Rotella / New York Times:
Educators are cautious of reliance on tech as schools adopt tablets from News Corp's Amplify — No Child Left Untableted — Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don't want this thing to take over my classroom.”
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The Switch, dylan tweney, VentureBeat, The Educated Reporter and The Verge
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian launches style magazine The Fashion — First issue of biannual title out on Saturday with Guardian in London, south-east and ‘selected retailers’ in England and Wales — Guardian News & Media is to launch a style magazine called The Fashion, which will be produced by writers from the Observer and Guardian newspapers.
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Press Gazette, The Drum and Guardian