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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
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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Billboard, Forbes, RAIN News, The Wrap, AppleInsider, Variety, Rolling Stone, Re/code, Business Insider, Mashable, 9to5Google, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Vulture, The Verge, The Week, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, AllAccess.com, Android Central and App Advice
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
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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@laurahazardowen, @benmullin, @derekwillis, @derekwillis, @palafo, @derekwillis, @palafo, @jayrosen_nyu, @derekwillis and @derekwillis
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
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, TechCrunch, Hit & Run, Consumerist, The Hill, Tubefilter, Fortune, @loomer979, Joho the Blog, Variety, Polygon, @sherwinpk, 9to5Google, Tech Times, @ceciliakang, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Verge
Jocelyn McClurg / USA Today:
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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New York Times, GalleyCat, @girlswritenow, Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, The Week, The Huffington Post, New Republic, Guardian and Bookmarks
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
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, @darrenwillsher, @rafat and @lmoses
Marti Benedetti / Crain's Detroit Business:
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
Jeffrey Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
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, Racked and Mediaite
Casey Newton / The Verge:
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
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
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
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
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
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer:
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution — Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
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Washington Post, U.S. Department of Justice, The Daily Dot, The Charlotte Observer and TorrentFreak
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Hoodline raises $1.6M to expand its tools for neighborhood news, listings, and calendars — To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M — One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities.
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@ted_williams, @rabois and @frankba
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