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Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by demoting their songs in search results and excluding tracks from promoted playlists — Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
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Billboard, Business Insider, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge and Daring Fireball
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Frank Ocean's exclusive, independent release of new album highlights tensions among artists, music labels, and digital services — The shoo-in for No. 1 on Billboard's next album chart is Frank Ocean's “Blonde,” which has charmed critics and enthralled fans who had waited four years since his last record.
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Fast Company, The Verge, Complex, Variety, @1000timesyes, MacRumors, MacRumors, @forbestech, @ennisnyt, @leftsentthis, @forbes, Pitchfork, hypebot, AppleInsider, @judystakee, @anildash, Complex, The FADER, The FADER, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Drum, Complex, hypebot, Fast Company and Fortune


After the US election, alt-right website Breitbart News intends to launch in France, seeing a business opportunity in the rise of nationalist politics — LONDON — Stephen Bannon intends to get Donald Trump into the White House — and then he's set on conquering Europe.
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How Breitbart Boosted Nigel Farage And Helped Take Him To The Heart Of The Trump Campaign
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@katherinemiller and @raheemkassam


Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section — Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …


How USA Today's nuanced coverage of Ryan Lochte's Rio drama provides insights into handling a fast-moving story with caution — Last Thursday, Taylor Barnes and other journalists crowded into a theater across the street from a police station in Rio de Janeiro.
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Fox News, USA Today, @jayrosen_nyu, NPR, @dangillmor, Complex, Mediaite, South Florida Business Journal, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, Forbes and The Week


Sources: Tronc mulls a third purchase offer from Gannett, at more than $18 per share, and moves forward with a formal counteroffer — It's apparently no longer a question of whether to sell or not, but for how much. — It's apparently no longer a question of whether to sell or not, but for how much.
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Deadline, @politico_media, @pkafka, The Wrap, @imleor, @markcaro, @jonchesto, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, @alexweprin and FishbowlNY


Study: frequent readers of partisan news sites are more likely to hold misperceptions even if they're aware of evidence — Reading lots of partisan news online makes you more likely to hold inaccurate beliefs even if you are aware of the prevailing evidence, according to a study published …
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@edkelley16, @heddingkj, @poynter, @lmoliva_, @wpmediainsights, @samrat, @brikeilarcnn, @_hgz_, Wiley Online Library, @journalismfest, @msidealab, @mantzarlis, @mediashiftorg, @poynter and Cision

Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords — Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter …
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@sarahfrier, The Hill, @digiphile, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @willoremus, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Verge, @kcoxdc, @oliverdarcy, @kantrowitz, Engadget, @torbahax, CNET, @nicholasadeleon, @caseynewton, New York Magazine and Consumerist


Draft rules for EU would let publishers demand payment from Google and Facebook for article extracts in services like Google News — Measures are part of a series of planned European commission changes designed to strengthen rights of creators and publishers
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Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Consumerist, @jeffjarvis, @mathewi and IT ProPortal


After Ailes, it remains unclear if prized anchor Megyn Kelly will renew her contract with Fox; if Bill O'Reilly stays on, one source says, Kelly is likely to go — Within its subterranean newsroom, staffers and executives have a new fear: will they be able to convince Megyn Kelly to re-sign …

Reporters for Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal were told to ask candidates a not-for-publication question about public funding for Raiders stadium — Reporters for Sheldon Adelson's newspaper have been told to ask candidates if they support public money for the stadium proposed …
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Deadspin, Mediaite, Deadspin, @jayrosen_nyu, @ralstonreports, Awful Announcing and @ralstonreports

NBCUniversal's partnership with BuzzFeed for Olympics Snapchat coverage garnered 35M viewers over two weeks, with 2.2B views and 230M minutes of consumption — NBCUniversal decided to turn over the keys to its Snapchat account to BuzzFeed for the Olympics.
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Strategist, @joelcifer, @mattjroper, @hearstcorp, @andrewgauthier, @tomgara, @peretti, @poynter, @digiday and @niemanlab