Mediagazer: YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months (Casey Newton/The Verge)

7:55 PM ET, November 12, 2014

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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tells Silicon Valley He's Open To Obama Net Neutrality Plan — WASHINGTON - On Monday, President Barack Obama went public with his support of an aggressive approach to protecting net neutrality. Shortly after that, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler told …

Discussion: Medium, TechCrunch, Variety, @amy_schatz, @gigibsohnfcc, Mother Jones, @jamieson, @froomkin, @mmasnick, @reedfrich, @gigibsohnfcc and The Hill

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

No Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 as Disagreements About Plan Continue — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler won't unveil his latest proposal for net neutrality until 2015, according to his aides. This comes as they repeated he hasn't made a decision yet about what to do amid reports he wasn't convinced President Obama's plan would work.

Discussion: Reuters and Multichannel News

Washington Post:
FCC's Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency”

Ece Toksabay / Reuters:

Turkish state TV fined for favoring Erdogan in election coverage — (Reuters) - Turkey's state-run broadcaster has been penalized for favoring President Tayyip Erdogan in its coverage of the country's first popular vote for head of state, the national election board said on Wednesday.

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Today's Zaman:
Turkish journalist Mehmet Baransu faces sentence of 2 to 7 years on charges of insulting President Erdogan on Twitter

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

How Henry Blodget Convinced Jeff Bezos to Give Him Millions — Back in the first tech bubble, Henry Blodget became famous by betting big on Jeff Bezos. Now Bezos has bet on Blodget, by putting his own money — twice — into Blodget's Business Insider site. — How'd that happen? And why'd that happen?

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Chicago Tribune managing editor leaves to pursue personal interests — Jane Hirt, who helped lead the Chicago Tribune newsroom through the dark days of bankruptcy and into an unfolding digital future, is stepping down as managing editor to pursue personal interests, the Tribune announced Wednesday.

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Sudarshan Varadhan / Reuters:
Tribune shareholder urges asset sale, share buyback

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

CNN Digital gets a new executive team — CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker announced new leadership for its CNN Digital team Wednesday morning. — Andrew Morse, who oversees domestic newsgathering as S.V.P. for CNN US, will also now oversee editorial and operations for CNN Digital as well, adding the title of G.M.

Discussion: TVNewser, Wall Street Journal, FishbowlDC, Variety, @raju, CNN and Broadcasting & Cable

Marc Graser / Variety:

Live Nation, Vice Media Form Digital Platform for Music Programming — Live Nation Entertainment and Vice Media have formed a joint venture to produce and distribute music programming on digital platforms. — The new digital network will launch in early 2015, and feature hundreds of hours …

Discussion: AdAge, Tubefilter, Reuters and @withdrake

Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Kickstarter-funded Latterly, an online mag for narrative journalism, to launch this month — Stories not ‘clicks’: new online magazine won't monitor web traffic, say founders — Latterly, an ad-free publication for narrative journalism, will finance itself through crowdfunding and user subscriptions

Reuters:

Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa …

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

At press conference with Obama, China leader lectures U.S. media — BEIJING — Moments of high drama played out at President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping's joint press conference here Wednesday, as the Chinese leader appeared to be snubbing the U.S. by ignoring …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …

Mark Joyella / TVNewser:

ABC News Sent 10 Million Election Day Push Alerts While Avoiding ‘Extreme Overkill’ — On Election Day, ABC News sent a staggering 10 million push alerts to users of the ABC News app who'd signed up for alerts. Peter Roybal, Head of Mobile for ABC News, knew full well that volume of information risked extreme overkill.

Discussion: SocialTimes, TVSpy and Lost Remote

Nicole Levy / Capital New York:

Time launches The Vault, giving subscribers online access to every magazine since 1923 — Time.com opens its ‘Vault’ — Is 2014 the year of the legacy media archive? — In May, The Nation launched a blog called “Back Issues” that highlights selections from its 149 years of weekly publication.

Discussion: The Nation and New Yorker

Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi invests $300M in Baidu's online video site, iQiyi — China's Xiaomi to Invest $300 Million in Baidu's Online Site iQiyi — Xiaomi has also partnered with Youku Tudou to jointly invest in the production and distribution of online video content and movies

Discussion: YIBADA, Variety, WantChinaTimes.com, China Money Network, TechCrunch and ZDNet