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5:50 PM ET, June 10, 2015

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Spotify Blog:
Spotify hits 20M paid subscribers, 75M total active users, has paid $3B in artist royalties  —  20 Million Reasons to Say Thanks  —  What a difference a year makes!  At the end of May 2014, we reached 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users.
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify raises $526M at a $8.53B valuation, plans new forms of content to challenge rivals including Apple Music  —  Spotify Raises $526 Million Amid Battle With Apple  —  Spotify has closed a massive new round of funding from a wide range of global investors who are betting it can fend off a new threat from Apple.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A blow for mobile advertising: The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads  —  It didn't get a mention in Apple's big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple's developer documentation lies perhaps …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal to roll out beta of paid, digest-style news app What's News next month  —  Journal to roll out paid mobile app  —  The Wall Street Journal is set to roll out its first mobile-only product, Capital has learned—a paid, digest-style news app that's said to be an ambitious project …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, @s_m_i and The Next Web
New York Times:
Attorneys general in NY and Conn. investigating whether Apple, music labels violated antitrust laws in talking about competing freemium services like Spotify  —  Apple Music and Labels Investigated in 2 States  —  While Apple was preparing a splashy introduction for a new service …
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Jim Romenesko confirms partial retirement, will no longer take job ads and sponsored posts at his site  —  Romenesko Confirms His Semi-Retirement  —  For those of us in the media-watch trenches, it amounts to a momentous bit of summer redaction:  —  But... what does it mean?
Kevin Donovan / Toronto Star:
CBC host Evan Solomon fired after Star investigation finds he took secret cut of art deals  —  CBC journalist facilitated sales of art to wealthy Canadians he dealt with in his job — including one buyer who had no idea Solomon was collecting a commission.  —  CBC
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Meet With Clinton Campaign Officials Over Access Concerns  —  NEW YORK — Two top communications officials with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign met Monday in Washington with representatives from the traveling press corps to discuss journalists' frustrations over access.
David Gonzalez / New York Times:
Photographer David Guttenfelder on using Periscope and Instagram in North Korea  —  Live, From North Korea  —  David Guttenfelder was recently on assignment in North Korea for The New York Times.  He decided to bring readers on his journey by streaming live video on Periscope.  —  Video: David Guttenfelder
Discussion: @davidc7
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Public radio is seeing a shift in digital listening: Live streaming is slowing, on-demand is growing  —  There are early indications that the digital listenership habits of the public radio audience are changing, as fewer people listen to live streaming audio and a growing number choose to tune in on demand.
 
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Interview with Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine on Apple Music, Connect, and the importance of a “human touch” in curating playlists
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Shawn W. Crispin / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Jailed Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan on hunger strike over mistreatment
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James Warren / Poynter:
A Q-and-A with Hamilton Nolan on Gawker Media's union vote
Discussion: Capital New York
Katie Richards / Adweek:
For The NYT, Digitizing 16,000 Recipes From Its Past Is Part of Securing Its Future
Discussion: Poynter
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Selling packets of channels to subscribers once made sense, but not so much anymore
Discussion: BGR and FierceCable