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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Boston Globe Owner Set to Start Health News Website — John Henry, the billionaire owner of The Boston Globe, formally unveils a new publication on Wednesday dedicated to coverage of health, medicine and life sciences. — The new offering, called Stat, will be edited by Rick Berke …
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Poynter, Nieman Lab, Media Nation, Forbes, FishbowlNY, USA Today, Stat, BostonGlobe.com, Poynter, @ylichterman, BostonGlobe.com and CNNMoney
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 …
Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox Q1: revenue down 6% to $6.08B on weak box office sales; Fox cable revenue up 7% to $3.46B — ‘Fantastic Four’ Failure Takes Bite Out of Fox's Earnings — The failure of films like “The Fantastic Four” and tricky foreign exchange rates knocked the wind out of 21st Century Fox's quarterly earnings.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist adopts time-based ad sales — The Economist is ready to move beyond the impression and bet heavily on user attention-based selling as the future. — The publisher, which operates a hybrid subscription and ad-funded business model, is offering marketers globally the ability …
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@econmedia
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.
Sam Quinones / True Tales:
60 Minutes segment on heroin in Ohio used independent journalist's book as source without credit after he pitched them story — Sad for 60 Minutes — I grew up admiring 60 Minutes for its storytelling and investigative reporting. — So many original stories.
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@hbecerralatimes, @samquinones7, @katekilla, @jlbuch, @nickbarnets, @alexrkonrad, @james_barragan and @vosdscott
Saud Mehsud / Reuters:
Taliban claim killing of Pakistani journalist — A gunman on a motorbike shot dead a Pakistani journalist in the country's restive northwest on Tuesday and hours later the Taliban claimed the killing, bringing to 71 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Pakistan since 2002.
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Wall Street Journal, UPI, Guardian and Firstpost
Ellen Emmerentze Jervell / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer Q3: net profit more than doubled to €137.2M, revenue up 7.3% to €795.4M, digital media accounted for 70% of earnings — Axel Springer Upgrades Sales Outlook After Strong Quarter — German publishing group says third-quarter net profit more than doubles
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Financial Times, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, MarketWatch, Reuters, Reuters and New York Times
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
BBC SVP Nick Ascheim named SVP of digital for MSNBC and NBC News; Julian March of NBC and Richard Wolffe of MSNBC leaving company — Digital arms of NBC News, MSNBC united under new executive — Nick Ascheim has been named senior vice president of digital for MSNBC and NBC News in a shakeup …
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TVNewser, Variety, Politico, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, @benmullin, Deadline, Media Wire Daily, @vivian and The Huffington Post
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times to re-tool video operation, with buyouts and new hires — The New York Times is offering buyouts to employees in its video department while also recruiting new video talent. — Effective Tuesday, all members of the video staff will be eligible to apply for a buyout …
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@niemanlab, TeleRead, Media Wire Daily, Guardian, NPPA and Poynter
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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@mgsiegler
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Two editors of Turkish political weekly magazine Nokta arrested, accused of inciting uprising, copies of latest issue confiscated — Turkey: 2 editors arrested accused of inciting uprising — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday arrested two editors of a political weekly …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Agence France-Presse, presstv.ir, DW.COM, NBC News, TodaysZaman, Ahram Online, The Huffington Post, Mashable and Guardian