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Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
AT&T's new streaming TV service, DirecTV Now, will debut in November with 100+ channels for $35/month, includes unlimited mobile data for TV viewing — AT&T just dropped a bombshell by announcing that its streaming TV streaming package, DirecTV Now, will include more than 100 channels for only $35 a month.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings open to AT&T Time Warner merger if net neutrality is upheld — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings signaled that his company wasn't outright opposing the AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner at the Wall Street Journal's WSJ.D Live conference in Laguna Beach, California Monday night.
Peter Sterne / Politico:
The New York Times will add new product verticals to The Wirecutter, Sweethome, is already hiring more staff, has no plans to put the sites behind a paywall — A little less than a year ago, The New York Times began thinking about what it would be like if it did Consumer Reports-style product recommendations, Ben French told POLITICO.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
A.G. Sulzberger on his new role as the NYT's deputy publisher, the conclusion of the 20/20 report, and job cuts coming to the newsroom in 2017 — Talk about having your work cut out for you. — In a few days, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger will start as deputy publisher for The New York Times …
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Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
Sumner Redstone files suit against two former companions, Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland, alleges they abused him, took $150M+, and left him in debt — Redstone says Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland manipulated and emotionally abused him to get what they wanted.
TechCrunch:
Pandora reports Q3 revenue of $351.9M, up 13% YoY, vs $366M expected; active listeners were 77.9M at end of Q3, down from 78.1M YoY; stock down 8%+ after hours — In what has become a very competitive landscape for digital music, early pioneer Pandora is trying to remain a leader.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump says he has no interest in setting up Trump TV, claims his only interest is in winning the election — Donald Trump says he has no interest in setting up “Trump TV” when the election ends. — “No, I have no interest in Trump TV,” Trump said on Cincinnati radio station 700WLW on Tuesday.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
47% of Quartz's 18M audience is from outside the US, with 44% of ad revenue billed against non-US inventory last year — U.S.-based publishers often have to retrofit their brands for overseas audiences when they expand internationally. That's not the case with Quartz.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart coordinated with liberal activist and organizer Aaron Black who disrupted GOP primary campaign events, was involved in Project Veritas DNC sting — A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Paul Beatty becomes first US writer to win the Man Booker prize, for his satire about race and economic inequality, The Sellout — Paul Beatty's novel “The Sellout,” a blistering satire about race in America, won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday, marking the first time an American writer has won the award.
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Judith Matloff / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, an online publication devoted to inequality, lifts aspiring writers out of poverty — Stephanie Land had all but given up on becoming a writer in 2015. She was like many of the subjects who appear in articles about the poor—a single …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Financial Times has 286K followers on Instagram, up from 40K a year ago, is adding thousands more each day — The Financial Times has found an unlikely outlet for its charts and graphics: Instagram. — A year ago, it had 40,000 followers to its Instagram account.
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