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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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AppleInsider, Consumerist, MacRumors, App Advice, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, TIME, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and Fortune
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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New York Times, Forbes, Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, Business Insider, Consumerist, GeekWire and The Verge
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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The Wrap, Tubefilter, BGR, Polygon, Birth.Movies.Death, Adweek, @michaelwolffnyc and The Verge
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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Fortune, CNNMoney, Digiday, Ad Age, Tubefilter, The New York Observer, @nathanjurgenson, Business Insider, Upworthy Insider and @amyoleary
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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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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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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Keith Olbermann leaving ESPN again; network says departure is a business decision to move in another direction — Keith Olbermann is leaving ESPN... again — Keith Olbermann is leaving ESPN for the second time. — The outspoken television broadcaster will be leaving the sports network later …
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Ben Huh / Medium:
Cheezburger's Ben Huh steps down as CEO today, will be replaced with President and COO Scott Moore — How to Jump Into the Deep End of Change — I'm leaving Cheezburger, Inc., the company I started. — Dear Friends and Fans of Cheezburger, — After 8 incredible years, I am stepping down from being CEO of Cheezburger today.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and @benhuh
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Fox plans movie about same-sex marriage Supreme Court case, secures rights to proposed book by lead plaintiff Jim Obergefell and journalist Debbie Cenziper — Fox Is Planning to Make Movie About Same-Sex Marriage Ruling — LOS ANGELES — With an eye toward the mainstream success of gay-themed films like …
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Rolling Stone, The Week, Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, Mediaite and The Wrap
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Editorial director Mikki Halpin leaves Refinery29 as fashion and lifestyle site focuses on news; ex-Al Jazeera journalist Kaelyn Forde now exec editor for news — Refinery29's Editorial Director Out as Company Shifts Mission — Change is afoot at Refinery29, the fashion and beauty-centric Web site …
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