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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
The New York Times is launching on Snapchat Discover with a daily weekday edition based on its Morning Briefing for users in the US and Canada — The New York Times is the latest media company to fully embrace Snapchat, the rising social media app owned by Snap.
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
NYT CEO Mark Thompson takes a jab at Donald Trump, a vociferous Times critic, in an earnings call announcing the paper's post-election subscriber rush — New York Times CEO Mark Thompson opened a conference call to discuss the company's latest financial results with a jab at President Donald Trump …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times now has 3M subscribers, adding 276K digital subscribers in Q4 of 2016; total advertising revenue in 2016 still fell by 9%
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Doug Lederman / Inside Higher Ed:
UC Berkeley cancels Brietbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos speech after protests turn violent on campus — California campus is latest to be inflamed by protests — reportedly fueled by visiting mob from off the campus — over appearances by the Breitbart writer and provocateur.
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David Sharman / HoldTheFrontPage:
BBC to invest £8m-a-year in 138 new “local democracy reporters” across the UK, with BBC staff working alongside local journalists to produce local news — Scotland will get 20 local democracy reporters while Northern Ireland will get just three under the partnership between …
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Kim Willsher / The Guardian:
A French journalist was forcibly removed from a Marine Le Pen press conference after trying to question the Front National leader over misspent EU funds — Paul Larrouturou forced out after trying to question Front National presidential candidate over ‘misspent’ EU funds
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Reddit bans r/altright and r/alternativeright subreddits due to repeated violations of content policy — Over doxing — Reddit has decided to ban two high-profile communities of the alt-right over what appears to be the posting and dissemination of personal information, otherwise known as doxing.
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
White House thaws its relationship with CNN by making Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president for national security, available for an interview — President Donald Trump's White House ended its freeze-out of CNN Wednesday. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
How The Guardian grew from 15K to 200K paying readers in the past year, and how it plans to reach 1M subscribers by 2019 — The Guardian has made big strides in growing its membership revenue, with the number of paying supporters jumping from 15,000 to just under 200,000 in the past year.
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@mattcdata, @elanazak, @kattancock, @kfshovlin, @morisy, @poynter, @digiday and @charliebeckett
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
How France's Libération is bolstering its fact-checking ahead of an election, with a vertical on the National Front, a database of fake news stories, more — With France getting ready for its own presidential elections in April and May, French political newspaper Libération …
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@guardianinsight, @globograma, @janebsinger and @fedecherubini
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
How the #PressOn campaign urging people to pay for journalism began, supported by celebs, authors, journalists, and more — If you were on Twitter on Wednesday, you might have seen gobs and gobs of people tweeting with the hashtag #PressOn, imploring you to spend money on journalism.
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Sony Pictures posts $913M loss as film division takes $962M write-down, but records higher subscription VOD licensing revenue — Net losses of $913 million at Sony's Pictures division held the electronics giant's profits to JPY19.6 billion in the three months to December, the third quarter of its financial year.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Sources: gossip reporter Nikki Finke was about to start a column at Mediaite when her former boss Jay Penske scooped her back up — MORE FROM: — In a dramatic move that may strike more fear in the heart of Hollywood than any President Trump executive order, Nikki Finke is back in business.
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@dorseyshaw, @thatrebecca, @pagesix, @akstanwyck and @joannemccusker
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