Mag world view: BW and Bloomberg News merge; Adspend growth up in 2015; Pulitzer accepts mags; Google won't pay Spanish copyright

• Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg News To Merge Online (Folio:)
• ZenithOptimedia forecasts global adspend growth in 2015 (FIPP)
• USPS May Seek a Rate Hike After All (Dead Tree Edition)
• Egmont launches Bing magazine in the UK (FIPP)
• Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility to Magazines (Folio:)
• Ireland to introduce cross-media ownership rules (Guardian)
• Google News shuts down in Spain rather than pay publishers under new copyright law (Press Gazette)
• Creative Commons Confusion Continues to Confound Content Creators (Scholarly Kitchen)
• The New York Times R&D Lab releases Hive, an open-source crowdsourcing tool (Nieman Journalism Lab)