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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first — Apple, Music Labels Push Against Free Music on Spotify, YouTube — Right now it's easy to stream any song you want, whenever you want, legally, without paying a penny.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to relaunch Beats streaming music service in June; Apple TV changes likely later in 2015
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New York Times:
Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts — ISIS Is Adept on Twitter, Study Finds — The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate, has been astonishingly successful …
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Hiba Zayadin / Mediashift:
Fighting Words: Inside the Social Media War Against ISIS — It has been four months since the formation of a U.S.-led global coalition to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of airstrikes purporting to hit ISIS targets have been carried out since then.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Andy Lack named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC — Andy Lack, the former NBC executive who was rumored to be considering a return to the network, has been named chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke announced in a memo to staff Friday.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
NBC insiders expect others to lose their jobs in the fallout after Brian Williams incident
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Chadwick Matlin / FiveThirtyEight:
Draftback allows playback of the writing process to offer insights and teach writing skills — Watch Me Write This Article — If you could watch a replay of James Somers building a program that lets us see our own writing played back to us, you'd need to start seven years ago.
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@kenbaumann, @austinkleon, @ksablan, The Awl and @scottros
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New editor Impoco has Newsweek back in the black — Newsweek hopes to expand editorial staff to 100 by next year. — One year after the embattled Newsweek returned to print as a small run weekly, Editor-in-Chief Jim Impoco has apparently done something that eluded previous high-flying editors Tina Brown …
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Sean Augustine-Obi / Capital New York:
Brooklyn-based digital magazine Bklynr folds after two years — After 44 issues, the Brooklyn digital magazine Bklynr announced on Thursday that the publication was shutting down. — In an email to staff and contributors, founding editors Thomas Rhiel and Raphael Pope-Sussman announced …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Tests New Ways To Mix Ads With News — Do ads belong in the ubiquitous news ticker that scrolls along during so many TV-news broadcasts? CNN is willing to find out. — The Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet is open to the idea of running an advertiser's logo in its bottom-of-the-screen zipper …
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Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog:
Top sites for Buzzfeed images include Tumblr, Instagram, Getty, YouTube, Flickr, Imgur, Giphy — Where Does BuzzFeed Source Its Content From? — BuzzFeed, the internet culture / news / listicle website, is on a roll. Their ability to find interesting content on the internet is the envy of the media world.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sling TV's Web-TV Service Attracts at Least 100,000 Sign-Ups in Its First Month — Sling TV, Dish Network's Web-TV service, has been open to U.S. customers for just over a month. And so far, it seems like Sling has generated some attention: Sources say at least 100,000 people have signed up to check out the $20-a-month service.
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Toledo Blade:
US government agrees to pay Toledo Blade $18K after seizing photographer's camera and deleting photos — Blade gets $18,000 from government for deleted photos — In what was seen as a victory for First Amendment rights, the U.S. government agreed Thursday to pay The Blade $18,000 for seizing …
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Media Q4: revenue up 85% to $553M on increased TV advertising and retransmission fees — Tribune Media sees strong growth in fourth quarter — Tribune Media saw net income grow to $315 million in the fourth quarter, or $3.14 per share, according to financial statements released Friday.
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The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal and Variety
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Former CEO and COO of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze are working on their own digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top execs quit to form digital media startup — Glenn Beck's top two lieutenants have left Beck's Internet and television channel, TheBlaze, and are starting a new venture together.
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