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Sources: Adele's new album, 25, won't be available on streaming services when it's released on Friday; Adele involved in decision — Adele Is Said to Reject Streaming for ‘25’ — For weeks, the music industry has been awaiting the release of Adele's new album, “25,” with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
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A history of the City Room blog at The New York Times and how it helped bring digital speed and voice to the newsroom — How one blog helped spark The New York Times' digital evolution — Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007.
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YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands — YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
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Google Public Policy Blog, Fast Company, Business Insider, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Android Police, Hit & Run, Consumerist, The Hill, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Fortune, @loomer979, Variety, Polygon, @sherwinpk, Joho the Blog, 9to5Google, Tech Times, @ceciliakang, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Verge


Crain adds daily business newsletters in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. — Crain launches digital business publications in 9 U.S. cities — Crain Communications Inc. on Tuesday launched a series of personalized …
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bizjournals, PR Newswire and Talking Biz News


Gawker's Kinja retreat is more evidence publishers struggle as tech companies — Gawker the tech company is back to being just Gawker the media company. — Alongside the news that it's shifting its coverage to focus on politics, Gawker said that it's also abandoning its pipe dream …
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Scripting News, @lmoses, @darrenwillsher and @rafat


Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson win National Book Awards — NEW YORK — Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for non-fiction Wednesday night for Between the World and Me, the searing best seller about being black in America. — He dedicated the book to his friend from Howard University …
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Condé Nast to shutter Details magazine after December issue due to decline in print advertising — Condé Nast to Shutter Details Magazine — Publisher's restructuring comes amid print advertising declines — The December issue of Details magazine will be its last …
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FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, WWD, The Wrap, Towleroad, Talking New Media, Adweek, Poynter and Racked


After voting to strike, Financial Times journalists delay action and plan more pension talks with management and new owners Nikkei — Financial Times journalists delay strike — Newsroom at odds with management over changes to pension plan. — LONDON — Journalists at the Financial Times …
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Guardian, Reuters, Trust.org, The Drum and Talking Biz News


Nuzzel hits 2.0 with new Discover section, no longer requires Twitter login, raises $1.7M funding round — Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M — Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.”
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VentureBeat, Forbes, MacStories and Gigaom


Vine debuts audio remix feature, so you can grab sound from other Vines to use in your own — Vine adds native audio remixing to help memes spread — In August, Vine said it planned to “strengthen the connection between music and Vine,” rolling out tools to add music to video clips and a …
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Vine Blog, Tech Times, SlashGear, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch and VentureBeat


Guardian to increase north of England coverage with news hub in Manchester — Three reporters to move to new team responsible for coverage in north — The Guardian is to significantly expand its coverage of the north of England by creating a news hub based in Manchester.
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@jessicaelgot, @joshhalliday, @helenpidd and @kathviner


Countries differ in support for press freedom, especially for reporting on national security — A new Pew report finds that beliefs in the freedom of the press vary substantially by country, with support for both free speech and a free press “contingent on the topic.”
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Pew Research Center's …, @pewresearch, Vox, Pew Research Center and The Hill