Mediagazer: YouTube Hurts Music Album Sales, Research Finds (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

10:30 AM ET, April 10, 2014

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

YouTube Hurts Music Album Sales, Research Finds — In recent years many academics have researched the link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results. Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there's a moderate negative relation.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Why Business Insider lets its reporters fly on sources' dimes — Henry Blodget isn't one to be a slave to convention. After his crash as a financial analyst, he built Business Insider into a site topping 25 million uniques on a mix of click-bait and in-depth executive profiles.

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Daren Butler / Reuters:

Turkey keeps YouTube block despite court rulings — (Reuters) - Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that was cited by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as part of a “dirty campaign” to topple him.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC must tackle complacency over the way it spends licence fee, say MPs — £100m Digital Media Initiative was a “complete failure”, according to public accounts committee — The BBC must tackle a “culture of complacency” in the way it spends licence fee payers' money, MPs say …

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Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:

An English-language news site in Sweden is expanding across the continent — An English-language news site in Sweden is expanding across the continent — In 2004, James Savage and Paul Rapacioli were two Brits who had fallen in love with Swedes, leaving them with a need to find work in Stockholm.

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Underwhelming Start to iTunes Radio Lights Fire Under Apple — The failure of iTunes Radio to halt the decline of music downloads has prompted Apple Inc. to consider the most dramatic overhaul of its iTunes music store in more than a decade, according to executives familiar …

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence on TV Watching — Listen to executives at Twitter and Facebook talk about how we watch television and you might walk away thinking that Americans are chattering nonstop on the social networks while watching their favorite shows.