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Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz, who co-wrote Le Monde editorial questioning the magazine's direction, is to leave, says pressure is too much to bear — Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Who Depicted Muhammad After Attack to Leave — LONDON — The cartoonist known as Luz, who drew the polarizing cover …
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Poynter, NPR, The Independent and The Newspaper Guild
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated plus yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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TIME, Digital Music News, The FADER, Engadget, @mattwatkajtys, @eriqgardner, @poptastic, @jimcarrollotr, hypebot, @crablin and Business Insider
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Jeremy Paxman: BBC TV licence fee clearly can't last — Former Newsnight presenter says the fee is unsustainable in the long term but there are currently no alternatives — Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has said the TV licence fee “clearly can't last” but said there was no alternative funding model for the BBC at present.
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Trial of Washington Post's Teheran bureau chief Jason Rezaian, detained in Iran for 10 months, begins next week — Lawyer: Trial of Post reporter held in Iran set to begin next week — Jason Rezaian's journey has taken him from a childhood in San Francisco to his father's native Iran.
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Washington Post, @jimsciutto, @adampopescu, Poynter, Associated Press, @anupkaphle, FishbowlDC and @dabeard
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016 — Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans — Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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Multichannel News, Mashable, /Film, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, ReadWrite, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Variety, BGR, @gte, App Advice, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Digital Trends, USA Today, iDownloadBlog.com, PandoDaily, The Drum, Bloomberg View, Talking New Media, Reynolds Center, ZDNet, Fortune, SlashGear, Shareholders Square Table, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Spy, @daiwaka, @nickbilton, @tomgara and The Loop
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David Lieberman / Deadline:
In open letter to Tim Cook, Icahn trumpets big market for Apple in television, for hardware and streaming
In open letter to Tim Cook, Icahn trumpets big market for Apple in television, for hardware and streaming
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Quartz
Valerie Vande Panne / Columbia Journalism Review:
As the archives degrade for the Boston Phoenix, publisher hopes to announce a deal soon with a university to save them — Can the Boston Phoenix's digital history be saved? — It's always hard when a newspaper dies. But when the alt-weekly Boston Phoenix passed away …
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Boston Globe, E&, Mediashift, Media Nation, @coreyhutchins and @cjr
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
MixRadio, the streaming music service sold by Microsoft to Line last year, launches iOS and Android apps — MixRadio Finally Brings Its Music Service To iOS And Android — MixRadio, the radio music service that was transferred from Nokia to Microsoft and then bought by messaging app company Line …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, SlashGear and Engadget
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce Wordpress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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Matt Mullenweg, WooThemes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and The Next Web
Jon Steinberg / Medium:
CEO of Daily Mail North America says greatest challenge to news reporting is advertisers not willing to place ads next to real, hard news — News is Not Porn or File Sharing — Years back, native digital media operations got a hard time from traditional or mainstream media for not doing enough hard or real news.
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@tabithagold, @brie and @jyarow
Wall Street Journal:
French telecom Altice in advanced talks to buy US cable company Suddenlink, valuing it between $8B-$10B including debt — Altice in Advanced Talks to Buy Cable Company Suddenlink — Altice is in advanced talks to acquire U.S. cable company Suddenlink Communications …
Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal:
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in wake of a lawsuit filed by Netflix last year alleging he took kickbacks from vendors — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
Inside Google's secretive anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Business Insider and AdExchanger
Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog:
Tweets get more prominent placement in Google results after Google-Twitter deal; Twitter doesn't earn directly off display but will gain new traffic — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.
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The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, Adweek, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, TIME, Variety, 9to5Google and @twitter
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
New York Times C.I.O. Marc Frons to leave the company — Executive change often drives more executive change, and that's what the word is today coming out of The New York Times. — This morning, S.V.P. and Chief Information Officer Marc Frons announced his departure …
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@marcfrons and @pmaiorana
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Conde Nast and Italy's RAI Cinema partner and launch “CNLive!”, a web channel in Italy serving primarily as a promotional vehicle for RAI's movies — Conde Nast And Italy's RAI Cinema Launch Web Channel In Italy — Conde Nast and Italy's RAI Cinema have forged a partnership to launch …
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