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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
In earnings call, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts says company is disappointed over failed TWC merger but has moved on — Roberts: Customer Service, Execution Top Priorities — Says Disappointed TWC Terminated, Company Has ‘Moved On’ — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast Q1 profit grows 10% to $2.06B, NBCUniversal revenue slips 4% to $6.6B — Comcast Q1 Profit Rises, Co. Will Focus on X1 — Media giant Comcast said net income in its fiscal first quarter grew 10% owing to more consumers buying high-speed Internet and business services …
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Department of Justice looking closely at Apple as it pushes record labels to ditch free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple's business practices …
Mark Joyella / TVNewser:
Senior vice president of outreach at Al Jazeera America, Marcy McGinnis, resigns; move follows departure of two top executives last week — Marcy McGinnis Resigns at Al Jazeera America — Marcy McGinnis, senior vice president of outreach at Al Jazeera America, has resigned, TVNewser has learned.
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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Al Jazeera America CEO Fires Back at ‘Absurd’ $15 Million Anti-Semitism, Gender Bias Suit — Al Jazeera America interim CEO Ehab Al Shihabi fired back at a lawsuit filed last week that alleges anti-semitism and gender bias toward a former employee. — “The recent attacks on us as being anti-Semitic …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Vice TV Network Has Already Sold Three Years' Worth of Ad Time, CEO Says — Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith. Credit: Christopher Lane for Ad Age — Vice Media has rung up a series of impressive deals in the past year or so, lining up a $250 million investment from A&E Networks …
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TVNewser, Capital New York and Quartz
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year
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New York Times and @jyarow
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Condé Nast Names Joy Marcus, Former Head of Dailymotion, General Manager of Digital Video — Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Joy Marcus, who previously ran the U.S. operations for video site Dailymotion, as exec VP and G.M. of digital video.
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Wall Street Journal:
Brands are hiring journalists, building standalone publications around their product, market — Don't Sleep on Content Marketing — Many companies have hired editorial staffers in recent years to write content for their blogs and be their voices on social media.
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@rylanmi, @digitalshields and @jyarow
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Factors behind Circa's failure include a dysfunctional mobile ad market, saturated mobile news market, and lack of editorial uniqueness — Circa: What went wrong — Circa, the clever smartphone news app, failed to live up to its promises. The fiasco stems from the smartphone advertising …
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@jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu and The Corsair
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers — The (very) big fight for the small screen — A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV …
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@mathewi, @qkatie and @ashleykmayo
Thomas Mocarsky / Katy on the Hill:
Periscope disabled prize fight streams in response to DMCA takedown requests — Periscope, the personal live streaming service, said that it took down 3o illegal streams of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in response to 66 DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] takedown requests from rights holders.
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Mashable, AdAge, @mathewi and New Yorker
pulitzer.org:
Paul Gigot, editorial page editor and vice president of Wall Street Journal, named chair of Pulitzer Prize Board — Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal named new Pulitzer Prize Board Chair — New York, N.Y. (May 4, 2015) - Paul Gigot, the editorial page editor and vice president …
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Politico, @swanniontv, @jayrosen_nyu, Talking Biz News, @raju, @ryangrim and @davidsirota
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Exclusive: New NBC President Andy Lack Reevaluating Much of MSNBC Programming — When venerable TV news executive Andy Lack was named the new president of NBC News, it was clear he was given the authority and autonomy from Comcast to clean house. The Today Show was in desperate need of change …
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@dylanbyers, @danabrams and Inside Cable News
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