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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom extends partnership with Snapchat, signs multi-year deal to sell advertising on Snapchat's behalf — Viacom To Sell Snapchat Ads In Multiyear Deal — Media giant to sell ads throughout video messaging app — Investors have been fretting about Viacom Inc. 's cable TV fortunes …
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Viacom Q1 revenue dropped 6% to nearly $3.2B, 10% drop in profits overall — Viacom, in Midst of Leadership Shake-Up, Reports Drop in Profit — Viacom, the media group that includes MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon cable television networks and the Paramount film studio …
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Deadline, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, campaignlive.co.uk, Variety, @emilysteel and The Drum
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post builds Bandito detection tool that monitors alternate versions of stories set by editors, then automatically serves the most popular — Washington Post's ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content For Clicks — System promotes version of a story with most popular headline, images
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@alexgoldmark, @ahmed and @wsjcmo
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Keith Moyer, new editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, says Adelson family assures him it will stay out of news gathering process — Big plans for Adelson's Vegas paper — Talking about plunging into the fire. — For the past six years, J. Keith Moyer, a former newspaper publisher and editor …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @sulliview, mprnews.org, @minnpost, MinnPost, Poynter and New York Times
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Users streamed 315M minutes of the Super Bowl from CBS and NFL, an average of 1.4M people per minute, up from from 213 minutes, 800K/min in 2015 — More People Streamed the Super Bowl Than Ever Before. Here Are the Numbers: — Late last night, CBS announced it had streamed the Super Bowl to a …
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
Wired to start offering ad-free version of its website for $3.99 a month from Feb 16, will block visitors using ad blockers — Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers — Readers can pay $3.99 for a four-week subscription to a version of its site without advertising.
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dylan tweney, Mashable, Wired, International Business Times, @om, @dangraziano and @alisonajones
Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox reports Q2 net income of $672M on revenue of $7.38B, cable TV revenue strong, film weak, stock down about 5% after hours — 21st Century Fox Earnings: Cable Gains Can't Lift Weaker Film Results — Lower television advertising results, lackluster home entertainment results …
The Boston Globe:
Boston Courant, a twenty-year-old weekly newspaper, to shut down after losing wrongful termination lawsuit — Print-only Boston Courant publishes last edition — The Boston Courant, a weekly newspaper that covered some of Boston's most prosperous neighborhoods for 20 years …
Discussion:
Boston Business Journal and Boston, MA Patch
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Trinity Mirror reveals editor-in-chiefs for 11 regions following Local World takeover — William Turvill's blog - — Trinity Mirror has created six new editor-in-chief positions as part of a restructure following its Local World takeover. — The publisher has divided its business into 11 regions …
Discussion:
Prolific North and Street Fight
Kate Palmer / Telegraph:
Guardian Media Group and Apax owned Ascential prices shares at 200p, floats at about a £800M valuation — Guardian-owned magazine business Ascential floats for £800m — Ascential, which owns titles Retail Week and the Health Service Journal, makes stock market debut today
Discussion:
Guardian, Press Gazette, Life Style Extra, Campaign UK and GlobalCapital
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Profile of the FCC's general counsel Jonathan Sallet, helping to create and defend rules shaping TV and the Internet — Net Neutrality Again Puts F.C.C. General Counsel at Center Stage — WASHINGTON — Every day for one month last fall, Jonathan Sallet, the general counsel …
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Al Jazeera America to stop updating website Feb. 26, TV operations continue until April 12 — Al Jazeera America to shutter digital operations by the end of the month — POLITICO P.M. Media Pro: How many watched Super Bowl 50? —New York mag gets a new app—Jake Tapper on 'fact checking'What are they thinking?
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bookforum.com and @petersterne