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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 …
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Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
Comcast now has more Internet subs than TV subs, company exec Neil Smit says in earnings call — COMCAST NOW HAS MORE INTERNET THAN CABLE CUSTOMERS — NEW YORK (AP) — Just before its $45 billion deal with Time Warner Cable collapsed over regulators' fears about a giant cable company's control …
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 …
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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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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Revenue on Track to Reach Close to $1 Billion This Year
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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 …
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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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
NewFronts: Fullscreen Acquires Social Media Studio McBeard — Fullscreen is making the push into social content with the acquisition of digital studio McBeard. — The 100-person, Los Angeles-based company is joining Fullscreen to grow its ability to develop, produce and distribute social content …
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Freelancers often face contract clauses that leave them liable for legal claims — Indemnity clauses leave freelancers open to lawsuits — Forbes contributor Dolia Estevez is on her own. — Two years ago, Estevez identified a former spokesperson for Mexican president Felipe Calderon as one of the …
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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 …
Caysey Welton / MinOnline:
Time Inc. hires JT Kostman as its first Chief Data Officer — Time Inc. Hires First Chief Data Officer — Time Inc. has hired JT Kostman, PhD, as SVP and chief data officer, the first role of its kind at the company. Kostman will lead a new team focused on broad data strategies aimed …
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Tom Ley / Deadspin:
Journalists Critical Of FIFA Arrested And Detained In Qatar — Journalists from the ARD and WDR, two of the biggest public broadcasting networks in Germany, were arrested and detained by the Qatari government while shooting a documentary about the corruption behind FIFA's decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
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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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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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