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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Americans aged 18-24 watch just 2.3 hours of TV a day versus those over 35 who watch more than twice that — Unless you are a millennial. Then you're only watching an enormous amount of TV every day. — TV! It's cooked! Toast! Doneso. Ready for the fork.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
About half of all US households now have a subscription VOD service like Netflix or Hulu, according to Nielsen report — Half of U.S. households now have subscription VOD service like Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu — matching DVR penetration: Nielsen — U.S. consumers on average still guzzle …
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Engadget
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CNN staff say ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski could be an asset to the network's campaign coverage — CNN sustained a public-relations black eye from critics and commentators last week by adding Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to its stable of paid pundits.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @buzzfeedandrew, @stevenjcbuckley, @owillis, Business Insider, @farhip, @hillarysuterus, @thatcaseyquin, @kairyssdal and Mediaite
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV sees almost £2.5bn wiped from stock market value after Brexit, leading to speculation it could be an acquisition target for a foreign media company — Broadcaster saw share price fall by more than 20% on Friday, raising speculation it will become target for takeover bid
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Talking New Media, @mdhillraiser and @marksweney
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Brexit Sell-Off: CBS, Liberty Global, ITV Stocks Among Buying Opportunities, Analysts Say — “For media stocks, it feels like every crisis is met with selling,” says one analyst. Global stock markets were hit Friday by a broad sell-off following Britain's decision to leave the European Union …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Uber partners with Pandora to give drivers streaming music option, first 6 months ad-free — As the battle for drivers continues to heat up, on-demand car services are tacking on more benefits to build up their respective armies. Today, Uber is upping the ante with the launch of Pandora music on its driver app.
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Uber Global, Ubergizmo, Roadshow, TechCrunch and Fortune
Hadas Gold / Politico:
SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston joins National Constitution Centre's Constitution Daily as Supreme Court correspondent — Lyle Denniston, dean of the Supreme Court press corps, is leaving SCOTUSblog to join the National Constitution Center, the center announced over the weekend.
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@hadas_gold, @hadas_gold, @meleaadrianna and @brianstelter
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Elizabeth Spayd, incoming New York Times public editor: 'I'm not there to make friends' — Elizabeth Spayd remembers where she was when the call came through. — She was driving into New York City after a visit to Long Island when her phone rang. It was Philip Corbett …
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New York Times, @edzitron, @lauraelizdavis, @timafranklin, New York Magazine, @raju and FishbowlNY
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Washington Post is launching a crowdsourced Black history project on Tumblr — The Washington Post thinks it might have one solution to a recurring problem for major news organizations: How can you take a local story (a museum exhibit opening, say) and make it relevant to a national audience?
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@lights_michael
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Independent's directors more than doubled their pay as the UK newspaper planned to cut jobs and shelve print edition, moving to digital-only — Despite being within reach of breaking even, the Independent was made digital-only and stablemate the i was sold off
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@jtdahlburg
Bharatha Mallawarachi / Associated Press:
Sri Lankan lawmakers approve freedom of information law — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers unanimously approved a law on Friday giving citizens the right to demand public information, a move many hope will restore transparency and good governance to a nation long plagued by corruption and misrule.
Theodore Ross / Jezebel:
Inside Kate Lanphear's brief tenure as Maxim's editor-in-chief — Kate Lanphear had been editor-in-chief of Maxim magazine for only a few weeks in the waning months of 2014, when the discussion finally, and inevitably, turned to sex. There had already been a long string of meetings addressing features …
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@bijanstephen and @espiers