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12:25 PM ET, September 14, 2016

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in six months, compared to Apple Music's growth of 4M in same period  —  Spotify today confirmed it has reached the 40 million paid subscriber milestone.  —  In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today, the company's CEO …
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Wall Street Journal:
Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News  —  Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content  —  EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
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Mark Scott / New York Times:   New EU copyright proposals would make VOD content, from sources such as Netflix or iPlayer, more easily accessible across all member states
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Adblock Plus launches a marketplace for Acceptable Ads, will get 6% revenue from ads and publishers will receive 80%  —  Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen.  —  Rather than stripping all ads from the internet forever, Adblock Plus is hoping …
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Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger:
Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange; ComboTag says the exchange will still go ahead  —  Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform.
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fact-checking debates in real-time is a burden moderators are not as well suited to handle as seasoned staffers at Politifact or The Washington Post  —  Presidential debate moderators often go into hiding as they prepare to carry out their thankless jobs.  But Fox News' Chris Wallace caused …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Presidential debate moderators must keep control, assert truth in real time, ask follow-up questions, and more  —  Whatever you may think of Donald Trump's politics, fitness for office and character, you have to admit he's a genius communicator, especially on television.
Politico:
More details emerge about CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski's involvement with Trump's presidential campaign; he is advising its top officials  —  Ousted Trump campaign manager playing a widening role behind the scenes.  —  Among the Trump campaign staffers and VIPs mingling in a back room …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
UK Parliamentary committee finds ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler, legal manager Tom Crone, in contempt over phone hacking evidence given to government  —  Parliamentary standards committee finds against newspaper's former editor and legal manager over evidence they gave
NorthJersey.com:
After purchasing North Jersey Media Group in July, Gannett to make 200+ staffers redundant  —  North Jersey Media Group announced Wednesday an ambitious restructuring designed to make its newsroom and sales department more responsive to the growing digital demands of readers and advertisers.
Rafat Ali / Skift:
Travel news site Skift expands into food and drink coverage, will host and distribute Chefs+Tech newsletter written by veteran journalist Kristen Hawley  —  The future of dining out, as told by the Chefs+Tech weekly newsletter.  —  Skift Take: Chefs+Tech is a natural expansion of the Skift umbrella …
Discussion: @rafat, Thanks:@steverubel
Oriana Schwindt / The Wrap:
AT&T Adds NBCUniversal Channels to DirecTV Now Streaming Bundle  —  AT&T is inching closer to launching its live TV-over-the-Internet bundle.  The telecommunications giant has just closed a deal with NBC Universal to include NBCU channels like Bravo, USA and E! in its DirecTV Now package …
 
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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
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