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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Drops 134,000 Satellite-TV Subscribers in Q1, Blaming Programming Disputes — Dish Network dropped a net 134,000 satellite-TV customers in the first three months of 2015 — with the satcaster blaming ongoing programming spats for the sizable loss. — The company, in a regulatory filing Monday …
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Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
Dish Network earnings beat expectations, reports $3.7B revenue, profit doubles to $351M — Dish Network Beats Earnings Expectations, Profit Doubles While Subscribers Dip — Dish Network released its first quarter 2015 financials on Monday, posting a subscriber loss of 134,000 compared …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Meredith Levien's plan to save (or at least make money for) The New York Times — On Feb. 13, The New York Times news staff gathered to remember one of its most beloved writers, the media columnist David Carr, who had died suddenly at his desk the day before.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The New York Times invites advertisers to the Page One edit meeting
The New York Times invites advertisers to the Page One edit meeting
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Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Toronto Star scrapped digital paywall as it was ‘expensive’ and had a ‘high churn’ rate — Julie Murtha speaking at the INMA World Congress in New York — Executives from the Toronto Star have admitted paywalls did not work for them and said promoting stories inside the newspaper is a waste of time …
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James Andrew Miller / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Shocking, Abrupt Divorce of Bill Simmons and ESPN — The co-author of the definitive history of ESPN, Those Guys Have All the Fun, reports on how the network and its biggest star met their bitter end. — The union of Bill Simmons—columnist, commentator, on-air personality …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Reed Hastings predicts linear TV will decline yearly for next 20 years, says Netflix wants to pioneer virtual reality — Netflix's Reed Hastings predicts the future of TV over the next 20 years — Close followers of Netflix should watch the speech that Reed Hastings, its founder and chief executive, delivered in Berlin last week.
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The New York Times reboots NYT Now as a free app with a new look — The New York Times recently announced that it would be turning its NYT Now iOS app into a completely free offering, and today the new version has launched complete with a new look. — NYT Now, which offers a curated selection …
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Facing competition from digital outlets, TV viewing drops 9% this season, with Netflix accounting for 43% of the decline — Networks Fret as Ad Dollars Flow to Digital Media — Beginning Monday, television networks will roll out the red carpet for marketers during the annual bazaar known as the upfronts …
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Michele McLellan / Knight Digital Media Center:
Report: 10 elements present in newsrooms that successfully make digital transformations — Digital Leads: 10 keys to newsroom transformation — INTRODUCTION — In 2012, the Newspaper Division of The E.W. Scripps Company, now part of Journal Media Group, and the Knight Digital Media Center …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton can't control the news, but negative media coverage shows her strength as a candidate — Hillary Clinton Can't Control the News — But the good news for her is that negative media coverage shows how strong she is. — In the eternal struggle between candidates and journalists …
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Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Sarah Hofstetter, from reporter at New York Times, to founding her own PR company 360i, on how the media and marketing worlds are colliding — 360i's Sarah Hofstetter: Journalists can find a home at agencies — Sarah Hofstetter is the global CEO at 360i, the hotshot agency that's behind …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
NPR is using data from NPR One to work out how to personalize public radio for new audiences — Deciphering what the next generation of public radio listeners wants through NPR One — One of the luxuries of modern life is the ability to listen to just about anything you want, anytime, anywhere.
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