Mediagazer: Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars (Peter Kafka/Recode)

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars — Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file …

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Liz Pelly / CASH Music:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO — As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.

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The gunman motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, Edgar Maddison Welch, gets four years in prison — The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in in prison Thursday.

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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Reuters report: ad blocking growth stalls, 18% of 18-24-year-olds in US pay for online news, 33% of same age globally use social media as their main news source — The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises. — The United States recently elected an unusual president.

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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

Republican coal baron Robert Murray is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight — A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.

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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
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