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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Facebook launches Music Stories post format that lets iOS users listen to 30-second clips of music shared from Spotify, Apple Music, and iTunes within News Feed — Facebook adds song clips from Spotify and Apple Music to your News Feed — As part of its ongoing effort to surface every bit …
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Lisa Beilfuss / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing Q3: revenue $404.3M, advertising revenue down 0.5%, print and delivery revenue down 30%, digital revenue up 6.6%, digital subscribers up 19% — Tribune Publishing Reports Loss — Company says unfavorable jury verdict could reduce quarterly profit by another 20 cents a share
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Tribune Publishing to switch to metered digital pay model — Tribune Publishing, owner of newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, will introduce a metered digital subscription model across all of its titles. — Tribune's newspapers currently use …
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Stephanie Gleason / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing offers $3M in Freedom Communication's bankruptcy case in exchange for right to bid on Orange County Register
Tribune Publishing offers $3M in Freedom Communication's bankruptcy case in exchange for right to bid on Orange County Register
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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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Forbes family sues Hong Kong investors over stake sale — The family behind Forbes Media is suing its Hong Kong investors for an alleged breach of payment on the stake they bought in the media firm last year. — In a lawsuit, the family has alleged Integrated Whale Media Investments (IWM) …
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Nick Summers / Engadget:
BBC launches UK store with 7K hours of downloadable archives, single episodes start at £1.89 — BBC Store lets you buy and download classic TV shows — Before iPlayer existed, VHS tapes and DVDs were one of the few ways to rewatch BBC shows. Unless you caught a rerun or had diligently prepared the VCR, that is.
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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 …
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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:
ESPN, ABC and Disney Channels Finally Coming to Sony PlayStation Vue — After years of haggling, Sony has at last reached a deal with Disney and ESPN Media Networks to bring the Mouse House's suite of networks to the PlayStation Vue Internet TV service. — Under the pact, ESPN …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
ComScore Sells Digital Analytix Business To Adobe En Route To Buying Rentrak For $732M — While online traffic measurement firm comScore moves ahead on its $732 million deal to acquire Rentrak, it's selling another part of its business as it continues to streamline: today comScore announced …
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Associated Press:
Iranian president criticizes recent arrests of journalists — 1 photo — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized in remarks published Thursday the recent arrests of journalists amid an ongoing crackdown on expression by the country's hard-liners.
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John Heltman / Washington Monthly:
Trade press paywalls keep reporting about government out of ordinary citizens' reach — Confessions of a Paywall Journalist — Thanks to a booming trade press, lobbyists and other insiders know what's happening in government. The rest of the country, not so much.
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