Mediagazer: T-Mobile Offers Music Streaming Free of Data Charges (Dawn Chmielewski/Re/code)

4:25 AM ET, June 19, 2014

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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Disruption is a dumb buzzword. It's also an important concept

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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

T-Mobile Offers Music Streaming Free of Data Charges — T-Mobile has decided to set music streaming services free. — The “Un-carrier” said it will offer subscribers unlimited access to the top six music streaming services including Pandora, Slacker, iHeart Radio and Spotify without incurring data charges on their 4G plans.

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

T-Mobile sets dangerous precedent for net neutrality with its Music Freedom initiative — T-Mobile's ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem — It sounds great, but it's really, really, really bad — Net neutrality has seen headier days, and to be honest …

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Chris Morran / Consumerist:

No, A Supreme Court Victory By Aereo Would Not Crush The NFL — The Supreme Court could issue a ruling in the dispute between the broadcast networks and startup streaming service Aereo as early as tomorrow (though it could also not come down for quite some time).

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Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Dish Says It's Interested in NFL Sunday Ticket

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Vice Media: Time Warner deal will not be at expense of youth audience — Chief creative officer Eddy Moretti says company's prime concern is to ‘protect the brand’ — Vice Media's Eddy Moretti described the company as a ‘20-year startup’ that is nothing without its brand.

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Keith Perry / Telegraph:

After 25 years at the helm Jeremy Paxman presents his final Newsnight — Jeremy Paxman, in typical style, suggests Ed Miliband has about as much appeal ‘as a flatulent dog in a lift’ — The BBC's Jeremy Paxman presented his final edition of Newsnight, after 25 years fronting the programme during …

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Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

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Zeke J Miller / TIME:

Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Says Goodbye — Departing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney marked his final press briefing from behind the White House podium Wednesday as he prepares to step down from the job on Friday. — Carney thanked President Barack Obama, White House staff, and the press one final time.

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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:

Iranian film-maker jailed for five years for ‘collaborating with the BBC’ — Mahnaz Mohammadi, charged with collusion against Iran's national security, maintains innocence and fears sentence could be due to women's rights work — Prominent Iranian documentary film-maker …

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

News Corp board votes to extend poison pill provision — (Reuters) - News Corp's board of directors voted to extend a poison pill provision it put in place to prevent hostile takeovers when the company controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family split from its cable and entertainment properties last year.

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Monika Scislowska / Associated Press:

Polish authorities try to seize magazine's files — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police and state prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters of a magazine that recently published compromising information about the government, in a failed attempt to seize its computers.

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Amir Efrati / The Information:

AMC Networks to launch genre-based subscription video sites this summer — AMC Plans Novel Move into Online TV — AMC Networks, which has vaulted into the first tier of TV programmers in recent years with shows such as “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” is preparing to break …

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Todd Wasserman / Mashable:

Univision signs up with Twitter Amplify for sponsored videos of World Cup highlights — Univision Amps Up World Cup Coverage With Twitter Amplify — Univision is kicking off a new deal with Twitter by letting State Farm, McDonald's and Verizon run ads on tweeted videos of World Cup highlights.

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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Read the internet like a newspaper with PaperLater — Print your pocket queue onto a dead tree — What if you could publish your own newspaper? — For as long as I can remember, I've had too much to read, and too little time to do so. With the rise of the internet …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

Why the Oxford Mail is experimenting with WhatsApp — The regional daily has received positive feedback for its WhatsApp service after experimenting with new ways to reach its audience more directly — Credit: By Sam Azgor on Flickr. Some rights reserved

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Sam Petulla / The Content Strategist:

The Financial Times on Why They Ditched CPMs For a New Ad Currency: Time Spent — “Engaged time” has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the media universe of late, as publishers and brands seek a unit of measurement that accurately values how much time people are spending with content.

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