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10:10 PM ET, July 15, 2013

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Jessica Lessin:
Exclusive: Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service  —  Apple has a new trick up its sleeve as it tries to launch a long-awaited television service: technology that allows viewers to skip commercials and that pays media companies for the skipped views.  —  For more than a year …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CNN, ABC Veteran David Doss in Talks with Al Jazeera America (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Producer negotiating a senior editorial role but not the top CEO post  —  Veteran news producer David Doss is in talks for a senior editorial position with Al Jazeera America.  —  Doss is not a contender for the cabler's top job of president-CEO.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Rightsholders By End Of 2013  —  Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users, says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013 …
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Lauren Hockenson / GigaOM:
Radiohead's Yorke pulls music from Spotify, Rdio, citing lack of support for new artists  —  There has been a lot of chatter — and debate — recently about the royalties offered by streaming music services, most notably an open letter written by the members of Pink Floyd that criticized the rates paid by Pandora.
Jillian C. York / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Media Continues to Focus on Snowden Rather Than the Information He's Revealed … The above words, from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, are revealing: They tell us about a man completely aware of the gravity of his choices, and of the implications of the information he leaked.
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans  —  For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.  But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January.
Discussion: Techdirt, Firedoglake and Hit & Run
Associated Press:
Asiana Airlines confirms it will sue KTVU-TV over broadcast of racist fake pilot names  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  Asiana Airlines announced Monday that it was going to sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names …
Katerina Matsa / Pew Research Center:
News magazines hit by big drop in ad pages  —  In a difficult advertising environment for the magazine industry overall, newly-released numbers from the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) show the nation's news magazines being hit particularly hard.  —  Total consumer magazine ad pages …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Forbes Exec Meredith Levien Tapped For Top Advertising Job At New York Times  —  In a move suggesting a possible new approach to its advertising business, The New York Times Co. has hired Meredith Kopit Levien of Forbes as its new chief revenue officer.  It's the first major appointment …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Actress to Fill One Vacancy in the Cast of ‘The View’  —  One of the vacancies on ABC's longtime hit daytime television talk show “The View” has been filled by Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy Playmate and actress.  —  The show's creator, Barbara Walters, announced on the air Monday morning …
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
HuffPo Co-Founder on Where He Thinks Tina Brown's Daily Beast Went Wrong  —  Just in case you missed it, BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer was the star of the full-page front-of-book Q&A in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.  (Though the magazine doesn't ID him as such, he's also managing director …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Betabeat and FishbowlNY
Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
Pay-TV Providers Bid to End Sports Networks' Win Streak  —  Cable, Satellite-TV Firms Push Back on Rising Cost of Sports Programming  —  When the Houston Astros and Rockets decided to launch their own cable network last year, their owners hoped to reap a sports-television bonanza.
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