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Ed Christman / Billboard:
Apple may pay 0.247 cents per song streamed during Apple Music three-month free trial period, 0.2 cents to labels and 0.047 cents to publishers — With Music Launch Looming, Apple Still Looking to Sew Up Indie Publishing Deals — Apple Inc. sign displayed at the Yerba Buena Center …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Apple Music Will Shell Out For Exclusives, Starting With Pharrell's “Freedom” — Apple is finally throwing its money around to help Apple Music win. Singer Pharrell today announced that his new single “Freedom” will be available exclusively on Apple Music the day of its launch, June 30th.
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Mark Little / Storyful Blog:
Founder Mark Little leaving Storyful after five years, with no specific future plans, but says options are endless — Mark Little on leaving Storyful, stronger than ever — Clichés are clichés because they are true. And that applies to my thought for the day: quit while you're ahead.
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David Cohn / Digidave:
Circa: early and influential in mobile news in 2012, missed key things, and now overshadowed by plans of Apple, Twitter, and Facebook — Quick thoughts as Circa shuts down — The news has broken - Circa is essentially shutting down. — While I haven't been with Circa for the last 10 months …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Circa offered an emotionless bundle of bullet points, which made for lousy social sharing and didn't work for newspapers either — Why Circa failed — A front page led by the day's biggest news. A selection of stories, chosen by editors, arranged more or less by importance.
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Matt Galligan / Medium:
Circa is shutting down indefinitely after failure to monetize and close funding deals; CEO Matt Galligan says firm is working on deal involving underlying tech
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Dow Jones chief executive Will Lewis warns newspapers against impulsively striking deals with Google, Facebook — Dow Jones chief's tech warning on news undermined by ‘cats on skateboards’ — Will Lewis says sharing deals with companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google pose threat to newspapers over control of content
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Instant articles to begin appearing in feeds this week; New York Times expects to post 30 stories/day, NBC to post 30-40/day — Publishers Prepare to Ramp Up News Distribution on Facebook's Instant Articles in Coming Days … Publishers are ready to ramp up content distribution …
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Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision Ending Relationship With Donald Trump's Miss Universe Organization Over Anti-Immigrant Remarks — The Hispanic media organization says it will not air the Miss USA pageant on July 12. — Univision has announced that it is ending its business relationship with Donald Trump's Miss …
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Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Comittee to Protect Journalists says journalists face unprecedented threats in Egypt as government cracks down on press freedom — Watchdog: Journalists face ‘unprecedented’ threats in Egypt — 6 photos — CAIRO (AP) — Journalists face unprecedented threats in President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's Egypt …
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Ahmed Aboulenein / Reuters:
CPJ says 18 Egyptian journalists, an all-time high, are behind bars because of their reporting
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Charleston newspaper shows the value of local journalists when reporting on national tragedy — At Charleston Newspaper, Covering the News, and Choking Back Tears — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Glenn Smith, the projects editor for The Post and Courier here, was with friends last Wednesday night when a colleague called.
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Gawker wins lawsuit against F.B.I. in Hulk Hogan case — Gawker won its lawsuit against the F.B.I. on Wednesday when a federal judge in Florida ordered the bureau and the Executive Office of United States Attorneys to give the media company evidence related to an F.B.I. investigation into Hulk Hogan's sex tape.
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Peter Elkind / Fortune:
Inside the Sony Pictures hack: an investigation by Fortune, Part 1 — Inside the Hack of the Century — A cyber-invasion brought Sony Pictures to its knees and terrified corporate America. The story of what really happened—and why Sony should have seen it coming. A special three-part investigation.
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
There's a Shiny New Trend in Social Media: Actual Human Editors — The world's largest social networks are nearly overflowing with content. That's good news for them, but bad news for the people trying to sift through the mess to find anything specific. — The timeless solution these companies are turning to?
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