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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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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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Forbes, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, BGR, Consumerist, Business Insider, GeekWire, Engadget and The Verge


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, Ad Age, Digiday, Tubefilter, @nathanjurgenson, Business Insider, Upworthy Insider, @amyoleary and The New York Observer


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, Engadget, Polygon, Tubefilter, Birth.Movies.Death, Adweek, BGR, The Verge and @michaelwolffnyc


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 …


Opportunities and dangers of news organizations and platform companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, working together — Negotiating for News — The Principles at Stake With Facebook, et al — Facebook did not set out to dominate the distribution of news. Neither did news organizations choose to let it.

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


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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Apple Music review: discovery features are great but the app lacks polish and simplicity, difficult to recommend over Spotify — Apple Music Review: Behind a Messy Interface Is Music's Next Big Leap — Despite glitches and a confusing interface, Apple Music stands to make as big an impact as the iPod


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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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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Global Press Journal, Guardian, Poynter, TVNewser, Washington Post and Variety


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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