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US paper tells reporters the more stories you post the more pay you gethttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/mar/25/digital-media-us-press-publishing

Reporters are also expected to increase their average number of daily posts by 25% by the middle of the year and an extra 15% during the second half of the year.

They are also being required to post the first comment under any significant article on the website, Oregonlive.com, in order to stimulate online conversations among readers.

This will create more talk between readers but may degrade the quality of news and perhaps may wonder off topic at time just for writers to post something or anything. As their bonuses will depend on story numbers and not quality of the stories they post this gives them more pressure to write about something resulting them to post large amounts that won't attract readers or interest them as news of the world. Futhermore they may be vunerable to writing about lies or hoaxes under the pressure of publishing stories before they investigate the reliability of sources used.

Turkey steps up bid to block Twitter after users flout ban

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/turkey-twitter-ban



In threats of blocking a social networking, people have commented on how Erdogan is joining ranks of elected dictators and oddly enough he was elected on an anti-corruption basis. People believe his days running things are numbered and that people will rise against him. Many people already know ways to get around a blockage such as the comment below:
Haven't we learnt anything from the blocks on the Pirate Bay? And how well they turned out? As long as a middleman can be accessed outside the state that is not affected by the ban (i.e. any computer outside of Turkey), that middleman will route the traffic through proxy.

7 ways a streaming iTunes could compete with Spotify and its rivals

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/24/apple-streaming-music-itunes-spotify

Music download sales tipping into a decline,

Figures published this month by industry body the IFPI showed that labels' income from download sales fell 2.1% in 2013, while streaming revenues rose by 51%. Download revenues were still more than three times bigger – $3.93bn to $1.11bn – but it still felt like a tipping point.

Some countries tipped long ago: streaming accounted for 70% of music industry revenues in Sweden in 2013, and 65% in Norway.

Note another recent Billboard report about Apple lobbying for more exclusives on iTunes – albeit the download store – after helping Beyoncé to sell nearly 829,000 copies in three days last December, through an exclusive digital deal.