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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline — If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline. — Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …
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Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations — Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M — Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings — one of the most important quarters …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers — HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Warner Q4: misses estimates with revenue down 6% YoY to $7.1B; HBO revenue up 6% to $1.4B; Warner Bros. down 13% to $3.3B — Time Warner Reports Mixed Quarterly Results Due to Movie Flops — Box office bombs like “Pan” and “In the Heart of the Sea” weighed down Time Warner's fiscal fourth quarter …
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Áine Kerr / Storyful Blog:
Storyful Managing Editor Aine Kerr to become Facebook's manager of journalism partnerships — Storyful's Managing Editor on Moving on to the Next Challenge — Nothing can prepare you for the psychological torment and raw adrenaline that comes with joining a scrappy startup.
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Associated Press:
Journalist kidnapped in southern Mexico found dead — MEXICO CITY (AP) — A reporter who was kidnapped by armed assailants in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz this week has been found dead, Mexican authorities said Tuesday. — Anabel Flores Salazar's body was discovered on a highway …
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12% — Facebook wants advertisers to get a lot better at silent video — People are now watching 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day — but many of those users …
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Mike McPhate / New York Times:
Newspaper adviser fired at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland after controversial article — Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students' Scoop Roils Maryland Campus — When student reporters at Mount St. Mary's University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Study finds BBC dominated online news in 2015 with 30% traffic share and 18.9B page views, 3x more than its closest competitor msn.com with 5.6B — BBC websites dominate the market in online news views — Top 10 media publishers responsible for 65% of news consumed in Britain
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Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy Q4: revenue down 7.8% YoY to $292.8M excluding one-time items, advertising revenue down 11.7% YoY — McClatchy reports higher fourth quarter profit — Bee owner says revenue continues to decline — The McClatchy Co. on Wednesday reported higher adjusted earnings …
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Sacramento Business Journal and McClatchy
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Music Pays $14 Million to End ‘Happy Birthday’ Copyright Lawsuit — The music publisher will also not stand in the way for a judge to declare the song to be in the public domain. — Sing the song, blow out the candles, eat the cake and unwrap the gifts.
Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group enlists Deloitte for strategic review — Barclay brothers believed to be testing potential City interest in newspaper group — The chief executive of the publisher of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph has launched an extensive strategic review of the newspaper group.
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Guardian, @jamesdoleman and Business Insider
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Serial plays a role in a court hearing for convicted killer Adnan Syed as interest in true-crime stories grows — ‘Serial’ takes the stand: How a podcast became a character in its own narrative — BALTIMORE — The post-conviction relief hearing for convicted Baltimore killer and “Serial” …
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