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7:45 PM ET, January 13, 2016

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Reporters who investigated doping in baseball and football will not be affected by Al Jazeera America shutdown  —  Al Jazeera unit that did doping documentary unaffected by Al Jazeera America shutdown  —  Just after Christmas, a U.S. media outlet made big waves with a well-hyped investigation …
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CNNMoney:
Al Jazeera America to shut down by April 30, with as many as 700 staffers losing jobs, promises to expand digital services in US  —  Al Jazeera America to shut down in April  —  Al Jazeera America will shut down on April 30 after a little more than two years on the air.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
President of Herring Broadcasting, the parent of One America News Network, says he's hired a bank to explore buying assets of Al Jazeera America  —  Al Jazeera America Already Has A Suitor: Herring Broadcasting  —  The news that Al Jazeera America will cease operations as of April 30 is just hours old …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Takes On Netflix With A New Kids Section Featuring “Sesame Street” And More  —  HBO's quest to more directly compete with streaming service rivals like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu is kicking off this week, with the company's launch of a new “Kids” section in its mobile application and the rollout …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify partners with Genius to show backstory and commentary annotations for selected songs, only on iPhone for now  —  Spotify And Genius Team To Stream The Backstory On Music Tracks  —  Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profile as a platform for more than just music listening.
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Apple phasing out in-house iAd sales team as it updates platform to be more automated  —  Apple Steps Back From Its iAd Advertising Business  —  Six years after launching its advertising platform, Apple is moving to phase out its in-house iAd sales team in favor of a new publisher-driven system.
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Sources: The Verge's co-founding editor Joshua Topolsky is raising $5M-$10M for ad-supported digital media project, covering politics, culture, and business  —  The Verge Co-Founder Josh Topolsky Is Raising Money to Launch a Media Startup  —  Joshua Topolsky, co-founding editor …
Discussion: @m_delamerced
John Koblin / New York Times:
‘Serial’ Podcast, Needing More Reporting Time, Goes Biweekly  —  At the beginning of every episode of “Serial,” the host, Sarah Koenig, opens with these words: “From This American Life and WBEZ Chicago, it's ‘Serial,’ one story told week by week.”  —  Well, make that every other week.
Jim Brady / Billy Penn:
Billy Penn, PolitiFact partnering to fact check Pennsylvania  —  Billy Penn is expanding ... sort of.  No, we're not announcing a slew of new hires, or launching in another city.  At least not yet.  But, beginning in February, we will be able cast our gaze a bit wider …
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
Public ‘support BBC cost-savings but do not want services to be axed’  —  Trust's consultation finds most of the 11,500 respondents back the BBC's plans - and want to close the ‘iPlayer loophole’  —  BBC licence fee payers are “supportive” of the corporation's proposals on how to deal …
Discussion: @rjdmc
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
PewDiePie Launches Creator Network With Maker Studios  —  Revelmode will feature videos, games, philanthropic initiatives, merchandise and more.  —  YouTube star Felix Kjellberg, who is known by the username PewDiePie, has launched a new online network in collaboration with Disney's Maker Studios.
 
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Facebook and Google Move Execs to Work On Virtual Reality
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
 
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