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4:30 PM ET, October 12, 2016

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Music Unlimited, a subscription streaming service that costs $4/month for Echo owners, $8/month for Prime members, and $10/month for all others  —  Rumors have been swirling around Amazon's plans to launch its own, standalone music streaming service, and now those reports …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pandora launches Pandora Plus, its $5/month ad-free service that also gives users offline playback, more song skips and replays  —  Pandora is not taking today's debut of Amazon's new, on-demand music streaming service lying down.  The company has conveniently timed the launch of its own new paid tier …
David Bixenspan / LawNewz:
Gawker Media files new motion as part of bankruptcy proceedings, asking court to authorize investigation into Peter Thiel's financing of lawsuits against it  —  On Tuesday, Gawker Media, the largely defunct media company that recently sold most of its assets to Univision at auction …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Gawker Media's court filing shows it's trying to build a case against Peter Thiel over his financing of cases against Gawker, despite “heavy burden” of proof  —  Back in June, rumors floated that Gawker was exploring a lawsuit against Peter Thiel for “tortious interference and racketeering” …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker tells reporters writing must be sharper, shorter, and more creative as newsroom turns focus to digital  —  The Wall Street Journal is in the middle of a newsroom overhaul.  And, according to its top editor, that transformation will include a sharper focus on cutting out editorial flab.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Newsroom memo: Huffington Post's Executive Editor Liz Heron is departing the site  —  Liz Heron, managing editor of The Huffington Post, is leaving that organization about a year after being appointed the newsroom's second-in-command.  —  Heron was hired on in September 2015 after serving …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
BuzzFeed aims to grow commerce revenue with Shop BuzzFeed, its online shop which sells merchandise created by the site's illustrators and designers  —  If you like your socks with milkshakes and French fries, good news: BuzzFeed has a store for you.  —  This summer, the online news …
Discussion: Business Insider
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
California news site Berkeleyside launches a direct public offering, giving readers a chance to invest, with up to $800K in preferred stock available  —  Based solely on the numbers, the Green Bay Packers shouldn't exist.  Its stadium, Lambeau Field, has a max capacity of 81,435 people …
Discussion: @mathewi
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
The Washington Post tracked Facebook's Trending Topics section over three weeks, uncovering five fake stories and three profoundly inaccurate ones  —  The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Pluto TV raises $30M from ProSieben, Scripps Networks, and more for European expansion of ad-supported streaming service; sources say its valuation is now $140M  —  Pluto TV, the free internet television service, has raised new funding from investors including ProSieben of Germany …
Discussion: Multichannel News and Variety
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
NYT renames global edition “New York Times International Edition”, with focus on deeper coverage; homepage will deliver geotargeted content to non-US readers  —  As of yesterday, there was something called the International New York Times.
Discussion: @rafat, @mathewi and Guardian
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Playboy launches nudity-free magazine on Apple iTunes, Google Play stores, available for $5.99 per issue or $17.99 per year  —  Playboy's 63-year-old magazine — recently stripped of nude pictorials — is now an app.  —  Playboy Enterprises is selling digital copies of the Hugh Hefner's …
Discussion: Fortune and FishbowlNY
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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