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Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog:
Spotify has paid music industry $2B to date, $1B since last year; has 12.5M paying subscribers; top artists to exceed $6M/year in payments — $2 Billion and Counting — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.
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Fast Company, Re/code, Gigaom, Business Insider, VentureBeat, BBC, Electronista, App Advice, Mashable and The Next Web
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
YouTube signs with indie labels through rights agency Merlin, setting the stage for a subscription streaming service — YouTube signs with indie labels for music streaming service — YouTube has struck a deal to license music from the thousands of independent record labels represented …
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Gigaom, Businessweek, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Reuters TV aims to personalize news broadcasts — With Reuters TV, a smart video app for news junkies, Reuters is once again trying to establish itself as a consumer brand. — The news giant unveiled Reuters TV at a Monday night soiree in its Times Square headquarters.
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@digiday, @brianstelter, Talking Biz News, @bbcsteveh, @moorehn, @antderosa and Quartz
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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015
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VideoInk
Hanna Rosin / The New Republic:
Disgraced reporter Stephen Glass opens up to an old colleague and apologizes, 16 years after his fall — Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I'm Sorry — He nearly destroyed this magazine. Sixteen years later, his former best friend finally confronts him.
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@jaredbkeller, @totallyslutsky, @tom_watson, @mattneistein, @mtredden, @sbnlukethomas, @nero, @emilydreyfuss, @susandominus, @davidplotz, @migueldelaney, @hofrench, @thefix, @edmorrissey, @davidsirota, @rebeccarnelson, @howardkurtz, @longform, @matthewshaer, @lineholm1, @tnr, @raheelk, @mjcontrera, @ptaddonio, @chrishughes, @citizencohn, @carloslozadawp, @colvinius, @emilynussbaum, @eamonjavers, @alecmacgillis, @jayrosen_nyu, @dpaqreport, @speechboy71 and @j_fuller
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
The New Yorker rolls out metered paywall — The New Yorker launched a metered paywall Tuesday morning, the magazine's editors announced in an editors' note. The paywall allows non-subscribers to access six free articles—whether they are print magazine pieces or online-only stories—and an unlimited number of videos per month.
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New Yorker, The New York Observer, FishbowlNY and @petersterne
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Matt Buchanan / The Awl:
Modified paywall returns Tuesday to New Yorker, with 6 free articles/month, no free archive
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bookforum.com, @tcarmody, @choire, @ceodonovan, @samkirkla, @velocitywong, @michaelroston and @ruths
Robert Mann / Adweek:
BuzzFeed hires Tessa Gould, Huffington Post's former director of native advertising, to monetize content — BuzzFeed Hires HuffPo's Director of Native Advertising — Tessa Gould will search for ways to monetize content — BuzzFeed is getting more serious about monetization with the hiring …
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FishbowlNY and @mikeisaac
Jack Shafer:
Government officials impersonating reporters will further erode public trust in journalism — Stop or I'll write! Why cops shouldn't fake being reporters. — Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James B. Comey waved his truncheon at the New York Times last week in a concise letter of protest addressed to the paper's editor.
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The Huffington Post, Poynter, @erikwemple, @colvinius, @deanpwright, @reutersopinion, Committee to Protect … and Techdirt
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
AP CEO demands answers from DOJ, FBI over fake news ploy
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Mediaite and FishbowlNY
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Matter announces finalists for international reporting fellowship — Matter announced an international reporting fellowship in September. It pays pretty well: $10,000 plus another $5,000 for travel expenses. On Tuesday morning the publication, which is owned by Medium, named six finalists …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post: Zakaria columns ‘problematic’ — The Washington Post is likely to add editor's notes to five columns by Fareed Zakaria in the wake of a report by plagiarism watchdog Our Bad Media, Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt told POLITICO on Monday.
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The Buttry Diary, @popehat, Our Bad Media, @hofrench, @buzzfeedben, @joshuafoust, @bretbaier, @mlcalderone, New York Magazine, Poynter and @buzzfeedandrew
Jonah Bromwich / New York Times:
Vimeo pushes into original content, funds “High Maintenance” directly, charges $2 per episode — With ‘High Maintenance,’ Vimeo Invests in Original Content — “High Maintenance,” a web series on Vimeo about the many customers of a Brooklyn marijuana dealer, has won a devoted following and plenty of critical acclaim.
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SocialTimes, Slate and mUmBRELLA
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Barnes & Noble launches Nook Press Print, a print-on-demand service for authors — Here's an interesting piece of news from Barnes & Noble - the US book giant is rolling out a new print-on-demand service for authors. — With Nook Press Print, self-published authors and emerging writers can print …
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Publishers Weekly
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
BBC mulls paying local newspapers for content and fund to pay for court reporting — BBC head of news James Harding said the corporation is investigating buying content from local newspapers and setting up a fund to pay for court reporting. — And he also hit back at the widespread complaint …
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@gazthejourno and @evansthecrime
Re/code:
President Obama's net neutrality proposal may seem like a victory, but language surrounding interconnection and usage-based pricing lacks clarity — What President Obama's Net Neutrality Proposal Means — President Obama's broadband announcement seems like a big victory for net neutrality activists …
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Washington Post, BBC, Talking Biz News, TIME and The Verge
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Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal
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Tech Trader Daily, @brianstelter, Variety, Multichannel News, Businessweek, VentureBeat, @ampressman and Gigaom
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
BuzzFeed's deal with Facebook to measure political sentiment has one major flaw — BuzzFeed has formed a partnership with Facebook that gives it access to the social network's “sentiment analysis” data on millions of users — but Facebook's algorithm is going to influence the thing that BuzzFeed …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections
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@lheron, @ron_fournier, @dylanbyers, @jenn_clark, @mjenkins, @mikeisaac and @johnness
Allison Quinn / The Moscow Times:
Kommersant Editor Steps Down Amid Rumors of Pressure From Above — The editor-in-chief of business daily Kommersant has resigned, triggering speculation Monday that he was forced out over a recent article in the newspaper about oil giant Rosneft. — While theories behind the move multiplied …
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Tom Parfitt / Telegraph:
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
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BuzzFeed, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Reuters and Guardian
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