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7:20 AM ET, January 14, 2016

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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.
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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 …
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 …
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
NBC research executive Alan Wurtzel: network shows compare well with Netflix and Amazon hits based on cross-platform ratings tool from Symphony Advanced Media  —  Why NBC Says Netflix Does Not Yet Pose a ‘Consistent’ Threat to Broadcasters  —  ‘Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated’
Paul Revoir / Guardian:
BBC risks excluding viewers by prioritising online content  —  BBC3 move to online-only, fears over future of traditional broadcasting and corporation being too ‘overtly political’ among public's concerns, study finds  —  Older, poorer and rural viewers could all be excluded by the BBC's plans …
Discussion: The Independent and Daily Mail
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Paul Revoir / Guardian:
Public ‘support BBC cost-savings but do not want services to be axed’
Discussion: @rjdmc
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Snapchat makes it difficult to find new things outside of Discover, missing revenue opportunities  —  Snapchat's Missing Out on Millions Because It Sucks to Find Stuff on Its App  —  Branden Harvey is really good at Snapchat.  If his account were a cable channel, it would be '90s era MTV.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Netflix's growth and strategy should be seen as a threat by TV industry insiders  —  Why Media Titans Need to Worry About Netflix  —  Imagine you run a global media conglomerate.  Say you're Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney, or Brian L. Roberts, of Comcast …
Discussion: @fmanjoo, @jeffjohnroberts and @sub8u
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.
Financial Times:
WebMD in talks with potential buyers  —  WebMD, the US online health information publisher, is exploring the possible sale of all or part of its business, according to people familiar with the situation.  —  The digital company, which provides data and educational information about illnesses …
Discussion: @mgxtro
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reuters TV finds value not just in making its content free, but in giving it away to other publishers  —  In a little less than a year, Reuters has completely changed the strategy around its news video product, Reuters TV.  It's gone from charging for its iOS app to not just giving …
 
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