![]() Vice and Live Nation will split revenue from the venture. Vice already produces video of live music performances by indie bands the collaboration with Live Nation will allow it to produce (and sell ads against) live music performances by mainstream performers as well. In other online music news, Variety reports that Vice Media plans to launch an ad-supported live music video network with concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment. Music Key will include music by Taylor Swift, who pulled her catalogue off of competing music streaming service Spotify after complaining of low royalty payments. It will ultimately cost $10 per month when it launches publicly. The service will initially launch as an invitation-only beta, free for the first six months and then $8 per month. YOUTUBE’S AD-FREE MUSIC SERVICE: Youtube is launching a subscription-based streaming music service called Music Key that will let subscribers listen to higher-quality versions of songs without ads, the Times reports. Nilay Patel writes in a post announcing the new video collaboration. ( ) “We've been friends with Marques for a while now, and we just couldn't resist a chance to pair him up with the unstoppable Verge Video team,” E.I.C. Last month, Capital reported that The Verge is planning an ambitious video strategy, which includes partnerships with Youtube stars such as Brownlee. THE VERGE WORKS WITH YOUTUBE STAR: Vox Media technology site The Verge announced yesterday that it will collaborate with Youtube star Marques Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, on a series of videos. It’s not up to me to call a fatwa on him,” he says. “Fareed is a lovely man, and an important part of Newsweek’s past. Jim Impoco also tells Grove that the magazine will stop investigating Zakaria. ![]() Although The Washington Post added editors’ notes to some of his columns, opinion editor Fred Hiatt says he has no plans to remove Zakaria from the paper’s roster of columnists and CNN, which airs Zakaria’s show “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” has refused to comment on the latest plagiarism allegations. The plagiarism allegations are unlikely to hurt Zakaria’s career, writes The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove. For example, if Zakaria can get away with impunity, what will make the next Zakaria any more likely to not lift improperly?” Blappo wrote in a gchat. “What we need is a journalism that gets the incentives correct through strong collective consequences for those who DO plagiarize. Smith said that Buzzfeed is currently developing an ethics policy that clearly defines plagiarism. A class of journalism students at Duke spoke separately with Blappo and Bort (over gchat) and Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith (over Skype) about plagiarism yesterday. Our Bad Media, which is run by pseudonymous media critics BlippoBlappo and CrushingBort, previously reported that Buzzfeed writer Benny Johnson had plagiarized many of his posts, which prompted Buzzfeed to fire him. ![]() More recently, Slate and Newsweek added notes to his work, after independent media watchdog Our Bad Media began publishing examples of Zakaria columns that it suggested had been plagiarized. Two outlets-CNN and Time-added notes to some of his work back in 2012, when he was first accused of plagiarism. This will make the Post the fifth news outlet to add notes to work by Zakaria. TIPPING POINT: The Washington Post is adding editors’ notes to four columns by Fareed Zakaria that show evidence of plagiarism, NPR’s David Folkenflik reports. All they have to do is email us for more information at. ![]() Help your friends and colleagues find stories that matter to them by recommending our Pro services, including newsletters, articles, breaking news alerts, and more, today. (However, it will not shut down its German newswire.) About 50 to 60 jobs will be eliminated, the Journal reports. DOW JONES LAYOFFS: News Corp.’s Dow Jones unit-which owns The Wall Street Journal-announced yesterday that it would end a number of peripheral products: its Sunday insert The Sunday Journal, its radio network “The Wall Street Journal Radio Network,” local-language websites in Germany and Turkey, and a Turkish newswire.
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