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3:45 PM ET, March 6, 2015

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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
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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 …
Discussion: @bristei, NewscastStudio and FTVLive
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.
Discussion: Multichannel News
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 …
Discussion: @jonathanwpeters and @onanews
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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Suhasini Raj / New York Times:
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Steve Knopper / New York Times:
Court Upholds Right of Reporter to Publish Excerpts From Diary of James Brown's Wife
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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