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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
One week after Apple Music launch, Spotify has best week ever in US Apple store with five consecutive days on top ten downloaded apps list — Spotify Just Had Its Best Week Ever on Apple Music's Home Turf — In the week since Apple Music launched, Spotify has spent five consecutive days in the top 10 most downloaded apps list.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
In apparent effort to stop Apple making any money from its service, Spotify urges iPhone customers to stop paying through the App Store and save $3/month — Spotify urges iPhone customers to stop paying through Apple's App Store — Spotify is trying to raise awareness around the fact …
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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Hulu to stream South Park for another 5 years, pay $192M to Viacom, show's creators — ‘South Park’ Re-Ups With Massive Hulu, Comedy Central Deals (Exclusive) — The streaming service will pay $192 million to the network's owner Viacom and the show's creative team for a three-year extension.
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Wall Street Journal:
Paramount strikes deal with AMC and Cineplex to release two movies for home viewing just two weeks after leaving theaters, forgoing traditional 90-day delay — Paramount to Break Hollywood's Home-Video ‘Window’ — Studio, two cinema chains to introduce a much shorter schedule for post-theater release
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Business Insider, Consumerist, GeekWire and The Verge
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
Dave Weigel returns to The Washington Post as a national political reporter, will also anchor new political podcast launching later this year — Dave Weigel joins The Post's Politics team — Announcement from Cameron Barr, national editor, Scott Wilson, deputy national editor, Anne Kornblut …
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Politico, FishbowlDC, Poynter, Mediaite, @daveweigel and FishbowlNY
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Wisconsin lawmakers vote on bill to curtail open-records law just before 4th July holiday; find it fuels coverage instead of masking it — A wave of media coverage helps to beat back changes to Wisconsin's public records law — Wisconsin lawmakers tried to sneak one by the state's journalists …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
ProSieben to buy YouTube network Collective Digital Studio, will merge it with own web video unit Studio71, invest $83M for 75% of new venture valued at $240M — Another YouTube Network Finds an Exit: Collective Links Up With Germany's ProSieben — Last year, big media companies went …
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The Wrap, Tubefilter, @pkafka, Ad Age and Variety
Ishmael N. Daro / National Post:
Pulitzer-winning journalist Paul Watson quits Toronto Star over ‘refusal to publish’ story on Franklin expedition — Paul Watson, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, has quit the Toronto Star over that paper's “refusal to publish a story of significant public interest.”
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Many viral Facebook videos are ripped from YouTube and re-uploaded to Facebook without consent, and some end up with more views than originals — Facebook's Piracy Problem — Are plagiarized YouTube videos helping fuel the social network's astonishing video growth?
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
British GQ takes down Michael Wolff feature that lawyers say implicated Murdoch in phone hacking while court weighs complaint — British GQ Disappears Negative Feature Story About Rupert Murdoch — In April 2014, the media critic Michael Wolff published a column in British GQ …
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@michaelwolffnyc, @tomscocca and @michaelwolffnyc
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Upworthy focuses on story creation by reviewing metrics to find where stories lose readers, switching roles to writers not curators, and trying new formats — How Upworthy is using data to move beyond clickbait and curation — The jokes in Upworthy writer Eric March's piece …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
After challenge to accuracy, Sanjay Gupta clarifies his reporting about operation on young girl during Nepal earthquake; CNN is working on verification — Factual Error Opens CNN Star Sanjay Gupta To Scrutiny Over Dual Roles — Journalism isn't brain surgery: a distinction wrapped …
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