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Elmo Keep / Fusion:
Prince ferociously protected his copyrights, issuing takedown notices and refusing to stream his music through any service except Tidal — Why Prince didn't want his music on the internet — Prince was an artist of such singular vision, possessed by talents so otherworldly …
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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Limited availability on streaming services will diminish Prince's legacy, while Bowie's legacy, with his full catalog online, will grow over time — What Prince could have learned from Bowie about the value of music streaming — Musically speaking, there wasn't a huge amount …
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Alex Spence / Politico:
Financial Times memo warns of daunting conditions, indicates delays in filling job vacancies and, streamlining print production as print advertising slumps — Financial Times: ‘We are facing daunting conditions’ — LONDON — The Financial Times is braced for “daunting trading conditions …
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Chinese regulator shut down iBooks Store and iTunes Movies in China last week say sources; Apple working on making them available again soon — Apple No Longer Immune to China's Scrutiny of U.S. Tech Firms — For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China.
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Swiss £4 per month regional news curation app Zwölf has 35K subscribers, 1,500 daily users six months after launch — Is curation the way forward? A Swiss media group's take on getting people to pay for regional news — Swiss media company Tamedia is hand-picking 12 stories a day …
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Jay Wallace becomes EVP news and editorial at Fox News as Michael Clemente moves to longform unit: both will report directly to CEO Ailes — Fox News Launches Longform Unit With Michael Clemente; Jay Wallace Upped to News Head — EMAIL ME — The new division shifts former news topper Clemente to specials.
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Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
Univision buys out Disney's stake in Fusion, creates new division, Fusion Media, to include The Onion, The Root, and more — Univision buys Walt Disney's stake in Fusion — Univision is buying Walt Disney out of its stake in Fusion and wrapping the millennial-focused US cable channel …
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Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
Sources: Univision aims for IPO in second half of 2016, seeking market value of $6.5B
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Medium raises $50M Series C led by Spark Capital, adds Ben Horowitz, Judy Estrin to board; source puts value at $600M, up from $400M in Sept when it raised $57M — Ev Williams's Medium raised $57 million in September — now it's raised another $50 million — You may have heard there's …
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George Slefo / Ad Age:
IAB: digital ad revenue rose to $59.6B in 2015, up 20% from previous year, driven by mobile ad spend, up 66% to $20.7B, and social media revenue, hitting $10.9B — Digital Ad Spending Surges to Record High as Mobile and Social Grow More Than 50% — Mobile Marketers Hiked Outlays 66%
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey: Editors see media losing ground as legal advocate for 1st Amendment — Editors around the country are losing confidence in the news industry's ability to fulfill its role as a First Amendment champion, and they believe that shrinking resources are to blame, according to a report released …
R.L. Bynum / Raleigh & Company:
New statewide North Carolina newspaper, North State Journal, to launch website by May 1, delays move to five-day-a-week print frequency until June or July — North State Journal delays shift to five-days-a-week publication — The adventurous idea of starting a new statewide print newspaper became …
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Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with Salon developer Aram Zucker-Scharff on lack of control over malicious ads, ad networks, and why adblockers don't force change — Ad tech is broken. Here's how newsrooms can help fix it — Aram Zucker-Scharff, a developer who works at Salon, was recently testing an ad unit when it broke the page he was on.
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