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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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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 …
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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’
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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 …
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Paul Revoir / Guardian:
Public ‘support BBC cost-savings but do not want services to be axed’
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
GoPro entertainment head Zander Lurie to become SurveyMonkey CEO, replacing Bill Veghte, who was there for six months — Lurie Departs GoPro to Take CEO Job at SurveyMonkey — Zander Lurie has left GoPro, where he headed its entertainment efforts, to become CEO of survey startup SurveyMonkey.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch reasserts control over Fox News, Roger Ailes threatened to quit over promotion of Murdoch's sons, network lacks Trump coverage strategy — With Roger Ailes Absent, Fox News Is Drifting — There Isn't Even a ‘Trump Strategy’ — For the past two decades …
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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 …
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@fmanjoo, @jeffjohnroberts and @sub8u
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Sun faces phone-hacking claims from five high court claimants — A bid to establish whether the Sun was involved in phone hacking has been launched at at a hearing dealing with allegations from 16 celebrities and public figures against the newspaper's publisher, News Group Newspapers.
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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 …
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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.
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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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