''Digital Music News'' is an American online magazine. It provides coverage ranging from tidbits to everyday reporting to major stories.
The magazine has criticized hate groups,
gone to court and "protected .. right to privacy",
[ and written about family values and ]Black Lives Matter
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.
Overview
''Digital Music News'' was founded by Paul Resnikoff.[
Some of its data on the economics of the industry has been used by others such as ''The Wall Street Journal'' and '']The Economist
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'' regarding trends. The site has been described by ''The New York Times'' as an industry blog.
In 2012 it was in the middle of a protection-of-journalistic-sources lawsuit,news aggregator
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, but they also serve as the source for such aggregation by major newspapers such as ''The New York Times'' and news magazines such as ''Newsweek
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'' and ''Wired
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''. In 2017, ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' is the result of the merger between ...
'' wrote, regarding a ''Digital Music News'' story reporting a Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white su ...
(SPLC) finding about online music hate groups, that "Less than 24 hours after the article was published, Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active us ...
scrapped the music from its platform."[
]
Features
Aside from doing popularity and "Top 10" stories, they also look into industry-related topics and industry history. A 2005 ''MacWorld
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'' opinion piece about piracy and pricing centered around a ''Digital Music News'' column stating "The real boogeyman may be in the pricing." In 2018, BBC's "YouTube's neo-Nazi music problem" had three paragraphs describing the timeliness of investigation and reporting by ''Digital Music News''.
Their email newsletter is called ''Daily Snapshot''.
Competition
Their reporting competes with sources such as ''Webnoize'' but they each specialize differently. ''FutureMusic.com'' is another competitor. ''FYI Music News'', a Canadian website that coopetates with them, reprints some of their material.
Criticism
Franklin Graves, a 2010 Samford University
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graduate and corporate counsel for Naxos Music Group, claimed in 2015 that "Everyone knows DigitalMusicNews.com is extremely biased and heavy with click-bait links".
References
External links
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Gadgetspage 'Top 40' (''DMN'' is #36)
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Online music magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2004