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Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter:
Tidal is dead on arrival because listeners are cheap, it lacks a critical mass of both users and musicians, and the market is crowded — Tidal — Now let me get this straight...piracy can be eradicated if artists just band together in the name of money? That's what this is all about, cash.
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Tony Gervino / Billboard:
Jay Z Talks Tidal, Jimmy Iovine, Rewriting the Music Business Rulebook — Jay Z doesn't give many interviews. In conversation, he often pauses mid-sentence, considers, rewinds, slices and reshapes his answer, choosing a more appropriate word or analogy that draws a finer point before revealing it to the interviewer.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
New Daily Show host Trevor Noah comes under fire for misogynistic, anti-semitic tweets — Trevor Noah, New ‘Daily Show’ Host, Comes Under Scrutiny for Tweets — Within hours of the announcement that he had been named the new host of “The Daily Show,” the comedian Trevor Noah was subjected to the full scrutiny of the Internet.
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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Charter Communications Acquires Cable Operator Bright House in 10.4 Billion Deal — Charter Communications and Advance/Newhouse Partnership, parent company of Bright House Networks, have struck a deal where Charter will acquire Bright House for 10.4 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.
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David Corbin / Tech in Asia:
Japanese news app SmartNews nabs $10M bridge round, at pre-money valuation of $320M — The back-and-forth between SmartNews and Gunosy, Japan's premier news apps that are taking their domestic war global, added a new chapter today. Only a week after Gunosy filed for a US$263 million IPO …
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Exclusive: Cablevision to make $1 offer for New York Daily News — (Reuters) - U.S. cable T.V. operator Cablevision Systems Corp is planning to make an offer for the New York Daily News as early as this week, valuing the troubled tabloid at just $1, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The New York Times Company:
The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch — The New York Times has developed a new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch. One-sentence stories, crafted specially for small screens, will provide the news at a glance across many Times sections …
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Tumblr's First CMO Stephanie Dolgins Will Also Oversee Its Media Deals — Former AOL, Disney Exec Most Recently Consulted for CNN, Refinery29 — Yahoo expects Tumblr, the social network it bought in 2013 for $990 million, to pull in $100 million in revenue this year.
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Cora Currier / The Intercept:
Intercept Reporter Files Suit Against Ferguson Police — An Intercept reporter is suing the St. Louis County Police Department after he was shot with rubber bullets and arrested while reporting on protests in the suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown last August.
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Poynter, @schestowitz and The Huffington Post
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
News Companies See Movies as Opportunity for Growth — LOS ANGELES — When the digital wizards at a forward-leaning media company last year introduced their newest idea, an entertainment unit, they couldn't resist an antique touch: “BuzzFeed Motion Pictures” arrived with a video logo modeled …
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Why curation could be at the core of future reporting — The whole news industry needs to ‘restructure’ around technology, said video producer and journalist Michael Rosenblum at the Mobile Journalism Conference in Dublin — “When we look at the world of news in particular or journalism …
Caroline Lees / INMA:
How does Mashable compete with New York Times? Big Data — Mashable leverages the data gleaned from its audience usage to identify trends in content consumption, which impacts its internal processes. — How does Mashable use Big Data to create more compelling content from the editorial operation?
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