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A look inside Jeff Bezos' Amazon Studios as it makes its push into original movies — Amazon's Hollywood Shopping Cart Secrets — “Can I show you my Pinterest board?” offers Roy Price, holding out his iPhone. “This is how we develop shows on Amazon.” — The head of Amazon Studios …
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Jamieson Cox / The Verge:
Spike Lee's Chi-Raq is officially Amazon's first original movie — It's been rumored for a while, but we now have confirmation that Spike Lee's upcoming Chi-Raq will be Amazon Studios' first original movie. Lee directed the movie and co-wrote it with Kevin Willmott.
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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix supports Charter's Time Warner Cable merger after Charter pledges not to charge peering fees for content providers through 2018 — Netflix to Support Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable … Netflix Inc. will support Charter Communications Inc.'s $55 billion acquisition …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit — Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit — Today following the bell, Netflix announced its second-quarter financial performance …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Sasha Frere-Jones to launch entertainment vertical at the LA Times — Sasha Frere-Jones, the former New Yorker music writer who left that magazine for the annotation startup Genius, will be a cultural critic at large for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper announced Wednesday morning.
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The New York Observer
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Marlene Sanders, the first woman to anchor a prime-time network newscast, dies at age 84 — Pioneering TV journalist Marlene Sanders dies — LOS ANGELES—Marlene Sanders, one of the first female broadcast TV journalists, died of cancer Tuesday at age 84.
Richard Horgan / FishbowlNY:
Bill Carter, Michael Wolff Join THR Contributing Editor Ranks — With Bill Carter, you get subject matter expertise like this: I interviewed David Letterman for the first time when I was reporting my book The Late Shift in 1993. He was then, and has remained, the most reliably great interview subject I can remember.
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John Jewell / The Conversation:
Murdoch newspapers have a long history of teaming up with conservative governments to target public media like the BBC — Bad news week for BBC as Murdoch press sharpens claws — Sang Tan / AP/Press Association Images — It's to be yet another week of crisis, inspection and introspection …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
How 98-year-old Forbes Media generates 70% of its revenues from digital — Five years ago, Forbes Media's total traffic amounted to 12 million visitors a month. Now it gets close to 36 million visitors, with 18 million on mobile. — Mark Howard, chief revenue officer of Forbes Media …
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Harper's magazine employees vote to end their union, had been affiliated since 2010 with UAW — Harper's employees bust out of union — A majority of included Harper's magazine employees voted earlier this month to end their association with a union, according to an election certification …
Ross Miller / The Verge:
The Apple Watch is now a remote for Hulu — Hulu has updated its iOS app to add Apple Watch support, and no, it's not for watching TV on your wrist. No one wants to watch TV on their wrist. The app, instead, functions as a basic remote, letting you pause, turn captions on / off …
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