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Alex Weprin / Politico:
Fusion revenue jumped from $28.1M in 2014 to $63.5M in 2015, while losses grew from $27.3M in 2013, to $35M in 2014, and $37.6M in 2015 — Still a joint venture, Fusion more than doubled its revenue in 2015 — Univision CFO Francisco Lopez-Balboa brushed aside reports that the company wants …
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@alexweprin and @alexweprin
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision says it paid $27.1M for its 40.5% stake in satirical news site The Onion
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FishbowlNY, Variety, Deadline and Billboard
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Publishers need to use predictive and conversational bots to add a service on top of their content if they want to survive — News Publishers Need To Jump Into Bots (1/2) — The survival of the news industry depends, for a large part, on its ability to create services on top of their contents streams.
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Nieman Lab, Motherboard and @structstories
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free — Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too — People love Pocket. Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.
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Pocket Blog, Life Hacker, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, @cjc, Android Police, @viticci, The Verge, The Next Web and Engadget
Nieman Lab:
New report surveys over 30 newsrooms on how they use analytics to make editorial decisions — The next step: Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics — Big screens with real-time traffic data have become ubiquitous in newsrooms. They illustrate how news organizations …
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@risj_oxford, On First Thought, Journalism.co.uk and Reuters Institute …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor — Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Univision launches campaign to encourage Hispanics to register to vote, raising questions about partisanship — Univision Aims to Make Hispanic Voting Bloc Even More Formidable — About 11 million Hispanics voted in the 2012 presidential election, fewer than half of those who were eligible.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
With CEO Jack Griffin gone, the stage is set to break up Tribune Publishing — With CEO Jack Griffin's unexpected ouster today, all bets are off on where the company is headed strategically. — Specifically, I think the stage is set for Tribune to entertain offers for its various newspaper properties …
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MediaPost, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times, Seeking Alpha, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Business, Orange County Register, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Business Journal, Bloomberg Business, LA Observed, The Hilltop News, Talking New Media, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Robert Feder, USA Today, Poynter, CNBC, The Wrap and @laobserved
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Spokesman for ousted Tribune CEO Jack Griffin says he wasn't fired, says decision was mutual
Discussion:
American Press Institute, FishbowlNY, Robert Feder and @brianstelter
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
How journalist Gary Harki's reports of police with disciplinary issues may have prompted a bill in Virginia to make names of police unavailable under FOIA — Here's the backstory to a bill allowing Virginia police to keep officers' names secret — Photo credit: Rama, Wikimedia; Treatment by CJR
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says company is aiming to sell a stake in Paramount Pictures by end of Q3 — Viacom Approached by Investors for Paramount Pictures Stake — Media giant hires PJT Partners to help with discussions — CEO Dauman aims to reach agreement on deal by third quarter
John Koblin / New York Times:
PBS to launch free 24-hour channel and online stream dedicated to children's programming later this year — PBS Is Creating a Channel Exclusively for Children — PBS is starting a new 24-hour channel dedicated solely to children's programming. — The channel, which will be called PBS Kids …
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CNNMoney, PBS About, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Current.org, The Huffington Post, App Advice, Fortune, Home Media Magazine, Engadget, C21Media and Associated Press
William F. Baker / USA Today:
Spotlight movie fails to acknowledge the dogged reporting of the National Catholic Reporter, beginning in 1985 — How ‘Spotlight’ missed the story: Column — ‘National Catholic Reporter’ exposed priest abuse and the Catholic Church coverup in 1985. — It is just a single line of dialogue …
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Religion News Service, @davidheinzmann, @jilldlawrence, @jasonberrynews, @meckdevil and @billkev
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Officials stop Egyptian investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat at airport, ban him from traveling abroad but provide no details of any case against him — Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens — One of Egypt's leading investigative journalists …
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