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Sources: Facebook's Notify app for news alerts to launch next week with dozens of media partners including Vogue, the Washington Post, and CBS — Facebook links with media groups to launch news app — Facebook is preparing its latest push into news with a new standalone app called Notify …
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Daniel Siegal / Law360:
Jury awards former LA Times columnist T.J. Simers $7.1M over claims paper forced him out due to age and disability — BREAKING: Ex-LA Times Sports Writer Wins $7.1M In Age Bias Trial — A California jury on Wednesday evening awarded former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers $7.1 million …
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Tribune Publishing offers $3M in Freedom Communication's bankruptcy case in exchange for right to bid on Orange County Register — Tribune Offers $3 Million to Fund Freedom Bankruptcy Case — LA Times publisher eyes bid for Orange County Register — Tribune Publishing Co. …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NewsON, a streaming service backed by TV station owners providing ad-supported local news, launches on iOS, Android, and Roku devices — NewsON Brings Your Local News Stations To iOS, Android And Roku — A company called NewsON launched today, offering cord cutters and mobile consumers access …
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Broadcasting & Cable, USA Today, Business Wire, Android Central, Engadget and Variety
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Verizon, NBA announce marketing deal bringing NBA highlights and more to go90 video service; source says deal is valued at $400M and runs for three years — NBA teams up with Verizon on $400M marketing deal — Want to catch LeBron on your smartphone? — Verizon is hoping all-things-hoops …
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New York Times, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, FierceWireless and NBA.com
Jeff Blumenthal / Philadelphia Business Journal:
Philadelphia Media Network layoffs: 17 at Philly.com, 17 at Daily News, 12 from Inquirer, union leader says — Union leader: Philly.com ‘gutted’ by layoffs — More than half of Philly.com's editorial staff and 25 percent of Daily News editorial staffers were among the 46 people laid off …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Maxim Taps Glenn O'Brien as Editor-at-Large to Replace Kate Lanphear — WWD has learned that Maxim has hired Glenn O'Brien as editor-at-large. — The role is essentially a replacement for Kate Lanphear, who was let go as editor in chief last month after six months on the job.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Q3: beats estimates with $6.4B revenue, overall revenue up 5% YoY on Warner Bros. and HBO growth — Time Warner Results Top Q3 Forecasts, Lifted by HBO, Warner Bros. — Time Warner beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2015 …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Chernin's Otter Media Aims for More Than $200M Revenue This Year — Otter Media, the online video-focused joint venture between the Chernin Group and AT&T, expects to generate more than $200 million in revenue across its business units this year, executives told Variety this week.
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David Yi / Mashable:
Sources: Lucky magazine, spun off by Conde Nast in 2014 into BeachMint shopping venture, shuts down; staffers dismissed last week — Lucky magazine shuts down once and for all, here's why it failed — NEW YORK - On Friday, the handful of remaining staffers at The Lucky Group's editorial side …
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Cork Gaines / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons says his new podcast is “closing in on seven million listens” in debut month — Bill Simmons' new podcast is putting up massive numbers — It has only been one month since Bill Simmons launched his new podcast, “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” and so far the results have been huge.
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Stratechery, Fortune and @mgsiegler
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Universal and Disney's dominance in entertainment and use of news subsidiaries as promotional vehicles causes concern for some — In media universe, the force is strongest with Disney, Universal — There has never been a time when so much of American entertainment has been controlled by so few.
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