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2:15 PM ET, November 11, 2014

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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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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 …
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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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015
Discussion: 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.
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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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 …
Discussion: 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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
AP CEO demands answers from DOJ, FBI over fake news ploy
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Medium and @poynter
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.
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: @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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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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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 …
Discussion: @crusoes and TASS
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Press Gazette:
Met anti-terrorism database holds more than 2,000 records relating to journalists
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News Teams Anew With Facebook To Promote Ebola Journalism Effort
Discussion: Gawker and The Wrap
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Online:
Amidst the rise of digital upstarts like Gawker, local news continues to suffer
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Knoxville's alt-weekly wasn't losing money. It got shut down anyway
Napier Lopez / The Next Web:
Machinima rebrands its gaming network to focus on original programming
Discussion: VideoInk