Mediagazer: Viacom Q4 misses expectations as revenue falls 14.8% to $3.23B, domestic ad revenue down 8%; net profit plunges to $254M from $884M a year ago (Anya George Tharakan/Reuters)

7:50 AM ET, November 9, 2016

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Kristen Hare / Poynter:

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Christine Wang / CNBC:

Digital accounted for 24% of WSJ's segment revenues in Q1, up 4% YoY, with digital subscriptions up 18% to 967K — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. reported fiscal first-quarter results Monday afternoon that were roughly in line with analyst estimates. — The company posted an adjusted loss …

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Narottam Medhora / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q1 2017 revenue of $1.97B, down from $2.01B a year ago, with revenue at news and information division falling 5.3% YoY to $1.22B

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

PlayStation Vue will lose Viacom channels on November 11, will add BBC America and NBA TV on Wednesday, and Vice plus CBS and FOX broadcast stations soon — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service has just hit a bit of a roadblock in terms of its content lineup.

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Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:

Viacom Q4 misses expectations as revenue falls 14.8% to $3.23B, domestic ad revenue down 8%; net profit plunges to $254M from $884M a year ago — Viacom Inc (VIAB.O), the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, posted quarterly revenue below estimates on Wednesday …

Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:

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Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune:

How Chicago Tribune documented the Cubs' win visually: four strategically placed photographers in ballpark using cameras with Ethernet lines and FTP — Chicago Tribune pages from when the Cubs clinched the NLCS, the World Series, and the Grant Park victory rally. — Tribune photojournalist

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Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Business Insider drops comments from articles — Business Insider has joined other websites in dropping the comments function at the end of its articles. — Mario Ruiz, a spokesman for the business news website, told Talking Biz News: … Other business and financial news sites …

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Source: Huffington Post ends appending an editor's note to all Trump stories, calling him a liar, racist, and a xenophobe — The Huffington Post's editor's note calling Donald Trump as a “racist” and “xenophobe” is no more, a source in the newsroom tells POLITICO.

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Associated Press:

Mark Cuban says he banned two ESPN writers from Mavericks games in protest of the Associated Press' partnership with Automated Insights; ESPN uses AP copy — DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says his decision to revoke the credentials of two ESPN writers who cover his team …