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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Wall Street Journal to relaunch European and Asian editions as global weekday broadsheet in September — Wall Street Journal to revamp European and Asian editions in broadsheet format — News Corp-owned paper to relaunch foreign versions in September after going compact a decade ago
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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 …
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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 …
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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission opens formal investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of electronic books ("e-books").
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
CEO Virasb Vahidi leaves Otter Media, AT&T and Chernin Group's joint venture for web video, including Fullscreen and Crunchyroll — CEO of AT&T, Chernin's Web Video Joint Venture Leaves — The CEO of Otter Media, the Web video joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, is leaving after less than a year on the job.
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Joshua Hunt / Reuters:
Messaging firm Line launches streaming service in Japan, Line Music, with 1.5M songs initially, unlimited access for 1,000 yen/month, 20 hours for 500 yen/month — Japan messaging app Line launches music streaming business — Messaging app operator Line Corp launched its music streaming service …
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The Next Web, SlashGear, TechCrunch and The Verge
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Julia Greenberg / Wired:
Tech companies need to tread carefully as they become the stewards of news or risk alienating content producers and consumers — When Tech Giants Deliver the News, They Decide What News Is — So Apple's got its very own newsreader app, aptly called News.
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@jacksmithiv, @marcmenen, @thedanwells and The Awl
Madalina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
How the FT used wearables to open up the reporting process — The newspaper's employment correspondent spent four days being tracked with devices in order to report on a story — Credit: Screengrab from the FT Wearables Facebook page — When you consider wearable technology …
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.
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
Librarian of Congress James Billington to retire in January — James H. Billington, the brilliant but mercurial head of the Library of Congress, will retire after 28 years at the helm of an institution that has expanded its reach across the country but struggled to stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital world.
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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
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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?
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Poynter, @stevebuttry, @romenesko, @jbenton, @malexjohnson, @richarddeitsch, @rafat and @mlcalderone
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.
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