Mediagazer: BSkyB leads $10M investment in native ad startup Sharethrough (Kurt Wagner/Re/code)

5:15 AM ET, September 30, 2014

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Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case — In the music industry's second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed on thousands of their copyrights.

Discussion: Reuters, Engadget, TorrentFreak, @pkafka, @xor, @managingip, VentureBeat and Billboard

New York Times:

Netflix, Weinstein Co. to simultaneously release “Crouching Tiger” sequel on Netflix and IMAX — With ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel, Netflix Takes Aim at Hollywood — In a first deal of its kind, Netflix and the Weinstein Company said Monday that they planned to release next year's sequel …

Discussion: Variety, Deadline, The Huffington Post, Inside Movies, The Verge, TVbytheNumbers, Re/code, Bloomberg, @netflix, Engadget, BBC, Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

BSkyB leads $10M investment in native ad startup Sharethrough — Native Ad Startup Sharethrough Raises $10 Million — Sharethrough, an advertising startup that specializes in “native ads,” has raised $10 million in new venture funding. The round was led by British Sky Broadcasting …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Sky News, The Drum and Sharethrough

Wall Street Journal:

SoftBank, DreamWorks Animation Talks Cool — Two Sides Still Could Renew Talks or Agree on a Content Partnership — SoftBank Corp.'s discussions to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. have cooled, according to people familiar with the matter, less than two days after word first emerged of the talks.

Discussion: The Wrap, New York Times, Deadline, smartcompany.com.au and Business Insider

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

eMusic will no longer offer songs from big labels, focusing only on indies starting Oct. 1 — EMusic Returns to Indie Roots Amid Shift in Online Market — EMusic, a pioneering digital music store that has struggled to find its place in the rapidly shifting online market, has changed directions again.

Discussion: Engadget and Gigaom

Deron Lee / Columbia Journalism Review:

How Iowa reporters are teaming up to cover a tight Senate race — Eight papers use a new transparency tool to get a handle on the political ad wars — PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS — Politics has long been a key beat for Iowa media. But today, political campaigns in the Hawkeye State …

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

MetaFilter, launched in 1999, recovers from traffic drop, updates UI, but still struggles with revenue — Web 1.0 dinosaur Metafilter modernizes, slowly — MetaFilter calls to mind a bygone Internet age. Launched in 1999, the quaintly self-styled “community weblog” …

Discussion: @digiday

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

The Guardian has a new format for liveblogs to make them more readable — The Guardian has a new setup for its liveblogs that aims to fix some of their eternal problems — chief among them that they're great for in-the-moment following along, but cryptic and unnavigable after the fact:

Discussion: Capital New York and Guardian beta

Michael Rondon / Folio:

Survey: city and regional mags rely on print revenue heavily; 40% plan new print products — The 2014 City & Regional Magazine Survey — How long can print carry the market? — Print may be dying, but it's still lively enough to carry the city and regional magazine industry.

Discussion: @mediatronic

Brendan Nyhan / New York Times:

Emergent is a tool that tracks data to collect and debunk false news reports in social media — Why Rumors Outrace the Truth Online — It's no surprise that interesting and unusual claims are often the most widely circulated articles on social media. Who wants to share boring stuff?

Discussion: @emergentdotinfo, @nytimes and New York Magazine

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon's E-Book Tactics — The authors are uniting. — Last spring, when Amazon began discouraging customers from buying books published by Hachette, the writers grumbled that they were pawns in the retailer's contract negotiations over e-book prices.

Discussion: @susanshapironet, Melville House Books, @dannysullivan, @marykarrlit, @electriclit, Gawker, @hawthornebooks, Consumerist, @siejames, Engadget, ThinkProgress, @upstreamism, The Awl, @aburnspolitico and @michaelpaulson

Andrew Nusca / Fortune:

In the fight against clickbait, Chartbeat pursues attention metric — Chartbeat, a web analytics company that serves online publishers, believes it has a better way to measure readers' attention. There aren't many things that can capture a busy journalist's attention. A juicy scoop, for one.

Discussion: The Next Web, @macdiva, Chartbeat Blog, Gigaom, @mccarthyryanj, @megan and @mathewi

Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:

Record censorship of China's social media as references to Hong Kong protests blocked — Censorship on Chinese social media has reached a new record this year as the mainland's editors of public debate rushed to quell conversations on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.

Discussion: US News, SocialTimes, Gizmodo, Quartz and @laurencewsj