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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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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Taylor Swift's Stand on Royalties Draws a Rebuttal From Spotify — Spotify is the future. Spotify is the enemy. Spotify doesn't pay enough. Spotify is music's best bet for revenue growth. — Since it arrived in the United States from Sweden in 2011, Spotify has been cast as both hero …
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
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo to Buy Video-Ad Service BrightRoll for $640 Million — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is buying video-advertising service BrightRoll Inc. for about $640 million in cash, seeking to boost marketing tools amid a turnaround effort by Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer.
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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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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.
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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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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Bill Mickey / Folio:
Penton Rebrands Itself as Information Services Business — Events, marketing services and digital are biggest revenue-makers. — Whatever happened to “publisher”? Across the market that term is being retired in favor of descriptors that refer to emerging lines of business that are quickly overtaking the print platform.
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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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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