Mediagazer: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Talks Russia, Apple and Beats in Q&A (Megan Buerger/Billboard)

3:10 AM ET, July 19, 2014

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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

NBC reverses decision to pull reporter Ayman Mohyeldin from Gaza; will send him back as soon as possible — NBC News Reverses Decision, Will Put Ayman Mohyeldin Back in Gaza — On Thursday, NBC News reportedly pulled correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin out of the Gaza Strip citing “security concerns.”

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

CNN Removes Reporter Diana Magnay From Israel-Gaza After ‘Scum’ Tweet — NEW YORK — CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.”

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Forbes devalued its brand by adding misleading native advertising and bad contributors — No silver bullets — Lewis DVorkin performed a miracle with Forbes ... almost. He almost rescued a dying brand, almost helped get it sold to a new owner, and almost rescued the Forbes family …

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Forbes:

Forbes Media Agrees To Sell Majority Stake To A Group Of International Investors To Accelerate The Company's Global Growth — Forbes Family Welcomes Significant Investment by Investor Group — Investors Are Committed to Forbes' Brand, Strategy, Values and Management …

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
Forbes Sells Majority Stake to International Investors For $475 Million

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Why Amazon's ‘Netflix for books’ might be doomed before it starts — Binge-watching is a phenomenon, binge-reading is homework — “The everything store” was never the extent of Amazon's ambition. Jeff Bezos has built a business that is, ultimately, about offering every kind of access to every kind of thing.

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Jeremy Greenfield / Forbes:
When Amazon Acts Like A Start-up: Why Amazon Has Entered The Ebook Subscription Market

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Amazon.com:
Introducing Kindle Unlimited: Unlimited Reading and Listening on Any Device—Just $9.99 a Month

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Russia Today London correspondent resigns in protest at ‘disrespect for facts’ over Malaysian plane crash — A Russia Today reporter based in London has resigned with immediate effect in protest at the station's coverage of yesterday's plane crash in Ukraine.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

RT blasts back at latest departure: ‘We have different definitions of truth’ — Another big story, another high-profile departure: Russia Today's (RT) Sara Firth has resigned over the network's coverage of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. RT is the Kremlin-funded international news agency …

Discussion: TVNewser, @dabeard, Gawker and Mashable

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Layoffs hit Daily News again — The Daily News is downsizing again, as we reported earlier in Capital's morning media newsletter. — Multiple sources said that buyouts have recently been offered to some employees and that layoffs have been enacted yesterday and today.

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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Germany is getting a data-centric nonprofit newsroom and hoping to build new models for news — While the United States' newspaper industry has faced more rapid disruption than any other country's, it's also benefited from the world's most vigorous nonprofit journalism sector.

Committee to Protect Journalists:

At least three journalists injured by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza — The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by Israeli airstrikes on buildings housing media outlets in Gaza that injured at least three journalists. The strikes came as Israel engages in a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, Mashable, @ibnlarry, New York Magazine and Newsweek

Megan Buerger / Billboard:

Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Talks Russia, Apple and Beats in Q&A — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announces that the online streaming music service will expand to 20 new markets around the world and that it has worked out a deal with Led Zeppelin, which had so far refused to license its catalog …

Discussion: Gigaom

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Microsoft plans to spin-off Nokia MixRadio as a standalone music streaming service, iOS and Android versions now a possibility

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Kadhim Shubber / Wired.co.uk:

Russia caught editing Wikipedia entry about MH17 — The world is still reeling from the shock of the deaths of 298 people on Malaysian flight MH17, which was shot down in Ukraine yesterday, but the battle to write and re-write history has already begun online.

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Verge and Slate