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6:25 AM ET, October 24, 2015

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Why distribution deals with unsigned artists are a good path to profitability for music platforms like Pandora and Spotify  —  Thinking Outside of Pandora's Box  —  “And you ain't get a coin, [Nas], you was getting f**ked then  —  I know who I paid, God - Serchlite publishing
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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms  —  As comedians, Redd Foxx and Andy Kaufman could hardly be more different.  Foxx, the pioneering nightclub performer and star of “Sanford & Son,” who died in 1991, was candid, socially conscious and unapologetically obscene.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In six months, Quartz's 130 videos had 43.4M views on Facebook and 1.6M views on YouTube  —  In six months, Quartz videos rack up 45 million views on platforms  —  With the launch of CNN's Great Big Story and publishers like BuzzFeed and Business Insider before it, the distributed approach …
Discussion: @meena_thiru and Media Wire Daily
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Univision Crew Turned Away from Trump Campaign Event  —  Journalists from Univision say they were turned away from a Donald Trump campaign event in Doral, Florida today.  —  Lourdes Del Rio, a Univision anchor, said no reason was given by the campaign when they were refused permission to cover the event.
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Business Insider plan more subscription offerings as more outlets turn to paywall strategies  —  Content paywalls on the agenda for digital news sites  —  There was a time not long ago when the news business was a roaring economic success.  Newspapers sold millions of copies …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend  —  Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature  —  First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’  —  Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
More articles are shared via text than Twitter, email, or Facebook in BuzzFeed's News app  —  You're probably underestimating how much your articles are being shared via text message  —  Last fall, in our Predictions for 2015 package, Jamie Mottram of Gannett predicted we'd see an increase in SMS sharing.
Discussion: @zeigor
Susan Burton / New York Times:
Profile of Terry Gross, who marks the 40th anniversary of her interview show Fresh Air  —  Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up … On a late-summer morning, Terry Gross sat before a computer in her office — a boxy, glass-fronted room at WHYY in Philadelphia — composing interview questions.
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Vivendi Increases Stakes In Telecom Italia To 20 Percent  —  DIJON, France- Aiming to expand its activities in Southern Europe, Paris-based Vivendi has upped its stakes in Telecom Italia to 19.9 percent.  —  Vivendi became Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder in June after buying 14.9 percent of the leading European telecom.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch  —  ESPN Videos Go Dark on YouTube  —  Nearly all of ESPN's video content on YouTube has become unavailable, because of unresolved rights issues related to the upcoming launch of the YouTube Red subscription service.
Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch and Digiday
 
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