Mediagazer: Songkick hits 8.5m users and starts selling tickets within its iPhone app (Stuart Dredge/Guardian)

9:45 AM ET, November 21, 2013

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Politico's Mike Allen, native advertising pioneer — Introducing: The “Playbook” game! — Politico Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen writes “Playbook,” a daily e-mail newsletter featuring stories from Politico and other outlets, various “exclusives,” tips and birthday notices.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Trying To ‘Win The Morning’ From Politico

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times D.C. shakeup: David Leonhardt out, Carolyn Ryan in as bureau chief

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Erik Wemple:
Politico's Mike Allen to assist with New York version of ‘Playbook’

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
NYT names new D.C. bureau chief, plans two ‘newsroom start ups’

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Launches Tools To Help Users Plan Trips — Posted 12 seconds ago by Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) — Meet Mobile Incubator Tandem's New Class Of Startups — Or Rather, Two Thirds Of It — Pinterest took its biggest step toward monetization yet tonight, as the company released …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

In Case You Thought BuzzFeed Needed More GIFs, The Site Launches A GIF Feed Sponsored By Google+ — Do you sometimes read BuzzFeed and think, “This is great, but why is all this text getting in the way of the funny GIFs?” If so, there's a perfect new section for you, called the GIF Feed.

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Is Google Play Newsstand a viable alternative to standalone Android apps? — Google introduced its latest platform for consuming news on Android devices today, suggesting that news organizations' native apps aren't serving readers well — even as those apps continue to be offered in the Google Play Store.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google Tries Rebooting Its Flipboard Clone, and Starts Selling the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Bob Woodward: Edward Snowden Should Have Come To Me Instead — Edward Snowden may have helped blow the lid on the NSA's secret surveillance programs, but Bob Woodward has one complaint: that Snowden should have come to him with the leaks. — “I wish [Snowden] had come to me instead of others …

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Alex Pham / Billboard:

TuneCore Taps INDmusic to Monetize YouTube — TuneCore Inc., one of the world's largest digital music distribution companies, on Wednesday announced it has signed an agreement with INDmusic to better monetize its artists' music on YouTube. The deal calls for INDmusic to adminster …

Discussion: Digital Music News, BroadwayWorld.com, hypebot and Los Angeles Times

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Songkick hits 8.5m users and starts selling tickets within its iPhone app — ‘We can get to a place where the concert industry is twice the size it is today,’ says CEO Ian Hogarth — Songkick Concerts 3.0 is launching on iPhone first, with Android to follow.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Mail Online targets £60m revenues in 2014 — Publisher aims to continue 2013's 50% growth to hit point at which website's income would exceed newspapers' decline — Mail Online has set a target of making more than £60m in revenues in 2014, with executives saying it is close …

Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

China State Broadcaster Mum About Ad Haul as Web Giants Eat Into Revenue — CCTV says it hit a record in up-front ad sales for 2014, but analysts say it didn't disclose a figure because it has surrendered its dominant position to search firm Baidu. — The annual sale of primetime advertising slots …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and China Real Time Report

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Maxim Sale Is in Big Trouble — Alpha Media Group's sale of Maxim appears to be headed for the rocks, knowledgeable sources told Adweek. — Cerberus Capital Management-controlled Alpha officially put the laddie magazine on the market in March. In September, it announced that it had found …

Discussion: Business Insider

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Amazon to Lawmakers: Keep the Internet Open & Limit Copyright Excesses — A hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet has heard opinions from leading content providers and technology advocates on how best to progress online digital distribution.

Jon Chesto / Boston Business Journal:

GateHouse Media closing 10 weeklies in Mass., combining resources for others — GateHouse Media has decided to shut down some of the outposts in its vast Massachusetts empire. — Sean Burke, GateHouse's New England president and group publisher, informed employees in a memo on Tuesday …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast Opens Digital Storefront to Sell Movies and TV Shows — Comcast has launched the Xfinity TV Store — offering subscribers select movies for purchase several weeks ahead of DVD release - marking the cable giant's entry into the electronic sell-through market to compete with iTunes, Amazon.com, Walmart's Vudu and others.

Discussion: bizjournals, Multichannel.com, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Electronista, Home Media Magazine and Engadget

Marc Ramirez / Dallas Morning News:

Journalists from around world descend for JFK ceremony — Karen Blessen, executive director of the Dallas Love Project, visits with Alan Fisher of Al Jazeera English about the project's efforts to counter the “City of Hate” image. Tens of thousands of art pieces are displayed throughout the city.

Discussion: Poynter

Kristin Bergman / Digital Media Law Project:

Cyborg Journalists: How Google Glass Can Change Journalism — in - United States - Newsgathering - Recording Others — Wearable technology is creeping into society, gradually finding its way onto the street and into the gym, offices, classrooms, and more.

Discussion: ReadWrite, @niemanlab and VatorNews

Leila Abboud / Reuters:

Cable group Liberty Global not sure mobile ‘a must-have’ — (Reuters) - Liberty Global, Europe's biggest cable group will sell mobile services as part of all-inclusive bundles across its 12 markets in the coming years but is not yet convinced that such so-called quadruple-play offers are a big attraction.

Mark Glaser / Mediashift:

George Brock Looks Toward a Bright Future of News Beyond Print — Now is a good time to be both a pessimist and optimist about journalism. Old ways and institutions are struggling, while new platforms and business models offer hope for change. George Brock, a writer and editor at the Times …

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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

NY1 to rebrand as ‘Time Warner Cable News NY1’ by end of year — The rebranding of NY1 is officially happening. Time Warner Cable's New York cable news channel will become “Time Warner Cable News NY1” by the end of 2013, according to a memo sent to staff there.