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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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Brent Lang / Variety:
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers eight months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO Now Service Has Roughly 800,000 Paying Subscribers — HBO Now has roughly 800,000 paying subscribers since launching last April, HBO CEO Richard Plepler told analysts on Wednesday.
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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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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Emails between Clinton aide Philippe Reines and ex-The Atlantic contributing editor detail specific conditions traded for an early copy of a speech — This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants — Hillary Clinton's supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters …
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Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance:
Sources: ESPN and DraftKings end exclusive deal committing DraftKings to $200M ad spend per year — ESPN ends exclusive advertising deal with DraftKings — ESPN has gotten out early from an exclusive advertising relationship with daily fantasy sports company DraftKings …
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Curt Woodward / BostonGlobe.com:
SEC filing shows Fox marked down value of its $160M investment in DraftKings by about 60%
SEC filing shows Fox marked down value of its $160M investment in DraftKings by about 60%
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg Business:
Disney beats Q1 estimates with net income of $2.88B on $15.2B in revenue, up 14% YoY, driven by Star Wars; ESPN costs rose; stock falls over 6% after hours — Disney Tops Estimates on ‘Star Wars,’ ESPN Profit Declines — Programming costs, subcriber losses, dollar hit sports network
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James Rainey / Variety:
Despite Earnings Records, Disney CEO Bob Iger Forced to Defend ESPN
Despite Earnings Records, Disney CEO Bob Iger Forced to Defend ESPN
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