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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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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details 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, Hollywood Reporter, UPROXX, Digital Music News, Engadget, @mattwatkajtys, @eriqgardner, @poptastic, @jimcarrollotr, The FADER, hypebot, @crablin and Business Insider
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Vox.com co-founder Melissa Bell named VP of growth and analytics for all seven Vox Media sites, will focus on strategy with Editorial Director Lockhart Steele — Vox Media expands Melissa Bell's role — Melissa Bell, who left The Washington Post in early 2014 to co-found Vox.com …
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@jfdulac and @greglinch
Gabriel Arana / The Huffington Post:
Journalists often face psychological trauma; culture of toughness and not asking for help needs to change — A Mental-Health Epidemic In The Newsroom — This is the first installment in a five-part series on mental health in the newsroom. — When Hurricane Katrina swirled onto …
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@oliviamesser, @anchorlines, @mariyastrauss and @mikeelk
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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@pmaiorana and @marcfrons
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
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, FishbowlDC, @anupkaphle and @dabeard
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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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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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
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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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
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
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