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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sheryl Sandberg sees Facebook as a second-screen to TV ads as company claims 500M users watch 100M hours of video per day — Facebook Says Video Is Huge — 100 Million Hours Per Day Huge — Facebook's obsession with video — getting users to both upload and consume it on Facebook …
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Facebook, Forbes, The Wrap, Reuters, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Ad Age
Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear The Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg Aggressively — “The bottom line is, you can't cover the circus unless you can write about one of the biggest elephants in the room,” said Kathy Kiely. — Can Bloomberg aggressively cover Bloomberg?
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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose new rules to give cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups plan coalition to oppose the initiative — FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes — Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
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Benjamin Wallace / Vulture:
Behind the rise and fall of Relativity Media and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh — The Epic Fail of Hollywood's Hottest Algorithm — In an industry where no one knows anything, here, finally, was someone who seemed to know something: Ryan Kavanaugh, a spikily red-haired man-child with an impish grin …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
The New York Times files copyright lawsuit against publisher of War is Beautiful, a book that argues the Times glamorizes war — New York Times Sues Publisher Over War Photos, Fair Use At Issue — The paper of record is raising eyebrows with a questionable copyright lawsuit.
Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
What it's like to cover Google when you can't get an interview with Larry Page — Try to Interview Google's Chief Executive. It's Emasculating. — I started as The New York Times's Google beat reporter in August 2014. Shortly thereafter, I told the company's public relations people …
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Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:
20th Century Fox Signs Chinese Streaming Deal with Baidu's iQIYI — 20th Century Fox will begin streaming movies like “The Martian” in China through a deal with search giant Baidu's subscription Internet video portal iQIYI, the companies said Wednesday. — Financial terms weren't disclosed.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Daily Mail and General Trust Q4: Mail Online ad revenue up 27%, total company advertising down 3%, Daily Mail to increase cover price to 65p from February 1 — Daily Mail website's ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike — Mail Online ad income soared by 27% in the fourth quarter …
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
A working theory: Adelson overpaid for the Las Vegas Review-Journal because the deal included obscuring his connection to critical coverage of Nevada judges — Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Sheldon Adelson, the Review-Journal of Las Vegas and Edward Clarkin in Connecticut
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@johnmcquaid, @jamesdehaven and @jayrosen_nyu
Thomas Oide / The Maneater:
University of Missouri suspends professor Melissa Click, who called for “muscle” against student reporter — Melissa Click suspended by UM System Board of Curators pending further investigation — Suspension comes after being charged for third-degree assault on Monday.
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Advancing Missouri, Reuters, Kansas City Star, USA TODAY College, Fox News and The Atlantic
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Wall Street Journal reorganizes newsroom, including Page One editors, in part to make digital reporting less dependent on print timetable and structure — The Wall Street Journal reorganizes its newsroom — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker today announced a series …
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WWD, @raju, Wall Street Journal and Talking Biz News
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Is Raising Another $500M In Convertible Notes With Discounts On IPO Shares — A week after streaming music company Deezer announced that it had raised another $109 million from existing investors, news has leaked out that its bigger rival Spotify is raising again, too.
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