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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Amazon Prime music streaming could launch as early as this week with Sony and Warner, but without Universal — Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service — Amazon is planning to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as this week, according to several people briefed on the company's plans.
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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Songwriters Are Losing $2.3 Billion A Year Due To Outdated Government Regulations — The National Music Publishers' Association, the lobbying group for songwriters, said the lost revenue is based on what it believes its constituents could collect if government regulations were lifted.
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Steve Henn / NPR:
NPR and Ars Technica team up for security test that tapped Internet while a reporter worked — Project Eavesdrop: An Experiment At Monitoring My Home Office … If someone tapped your Internet connection, what would he find out about you? — It's been just over a year since Edward Snowden became …
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@leftcoasthelene, @rhatr and Ars Technica
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Kickstarter links with the Guardian to highlight journalism projects — Crowdfunding website to have a dedicated category for the sector, plus a curated page picking out noteworthy new ideas — The Vancouver Observer's Tar Sands Reporting Project was funded through Kickstarter
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@nicolehe, @digiphile, The Kickstarter Blog, @jamesrbuk, @znmeb, @ystrickler, @contributoria and @caseynewton
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AT&T's Pitch to the Feds: Let Us Buy DirecTV, and Maybe TV Bills Won't Go Up So Much — Remember when AT&T told investors that it could cut its programming bills by 20 percent if it buys DirecTV? — That was last week. This week AT&T is telling regulators why they should let it buy DirecTV, and it's making a similar argument.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and CNET
ScienceDaily:
Internet not responsible for dying newspapers, new study finds — We all know that the Internet has killed the traditional newspaper trade, right? After all, until the general population started interacting with the web in the mid-90s, the newspaper business was thriving — offering readers top notch journalism and pages of ads.
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@donlday
Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Digital publishing metrics: What's real? — The ecstasy of digital publishing is that it enables the granular measurement of everything from traffic to ad clicks. The agony is trying to figure out which metrics matter. That's the vexing issue we're going to tackle today, but, first, let's get real:
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Jury in Rebekah Brooks trial retires to consider verdicts — Eight-month trial over alleged phone hacking, corruption and perversion of the course of justice enters final phase — The jury in the Rebekah Brooks trial has retired to consider its verdicts on a string of offences related to phone hacking …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why the Orange County Register's bold experiment hit the skids — Debt doomed Aaron Kushner's dramatic expansion strategy, financial documents show — Aaron Kushner's massive investment in The Orange County Register—one I argued a year ago was “the most interesting—and important …
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@ryanchittum
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
The Sun marks the World Cup by giving away 22m papers to English homes — In a burst of patriotism on behalf of England's World Cup team, The Sun is distributing 22m copies of a special issue to almost every household in England. — The 24-page paper is being delivered over the next two days …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Christian Science Monitor tweaks its engagement algorithm — The Christian Science Monitor, a 106-year-old news organization that boasts a serious, civic-minded audience, would seem well poised to crack the engagement code. A digital-focused publication since 2008 …
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Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, @digiphile and Christian Science Monitor
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
2014's most talked-about media startups aren't distinguished by the what, but the how — With the launch of new site after new site in 2014, it's been a fascinating time to watch digital media try to figure itself out. Amid the turmoil of disruption, buffeted by tech companies' control …
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The Corsair, The New York Observer, @jimtankersley, @jayrosen_nyu, @conorsen, @mathewi and @jkavanagh
Felix Salmon / Matter:
A Q&A with BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on everything from print to innovation — BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Goes Long — The media mogul (twice over) on being both contagious and sticky — I first got to know Jonah Peretti in February 2011, very shortly after the Huffington Post was sold to AOL.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Gigaom, @journalism2ls, @thebrowser, @jyarow, @tsimonite, New York Magazine, @nbj914, @readmatter, @buzzfeedben, 10,000 Words, @marklotto, @gregorydjohnsen and kottke.org
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Vice Launches A Sports Channel, With Modest Ambitions (For Now) — Vice Media CEO Shane Smith wants to displace ESPN as the global leader in sports news. He's said so publicly and often. — When I interviewed him for a FORBES profile in December 2011, he told me, “I want to be the next CNN …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
In the news media, are Muslims the only ‘terrorists’? — What do you call a couple who espouse an extremist, anti-government ideology and kill two policemen and a bystander while draping one of their victims in a flag associated with a political movement? — After Sunday's shooting spree perpetrated …
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