Mediagazer: As Amazon cuts affiliate revenue, questions arise for outlets like Wirecutter, Gizmodo Media, and smaller sites that count on link income (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

12:25 PM ET, March 1, 2017

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Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:

A look at YouTube's strategy to entice young cordcutters to pay for TV with YouTube TV, which focuses on including live sports to make up for gaps in lineup — The millennial cordcutter singularity is nigh. — by — Subscribe Reprints — For years, YouTube has served up almost every imaginable kind of video.

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations — Meet YouTube TV. — YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

President Trump and his aides condemn anonymous leaks to reporters, unless the leaks come from themselves — President Trump and his aides despise and condemn anonymous leaks to reporters. — Except, of course, when they are the ones doing the leaking. — On the"Fox & Friends" …

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Ruling finds NYPD may have violated 1st Amendment by revoking a press pass; experts say barring certain news orgs from briefings may also be unconstitutional — WASHINGTON — A ruling issued on Monday by a federal judge in Manhattan, in a case brought by a freelance journalist without a lawyer, may interest the White House.

Discussion: Slate, PEN America, @kenroth and The Huffington Post

Reuters:

Sources: Sinclair Broadcast Group has approached Tribune Media about a possible merger, which would depend on regulations being relaxed — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc has approached rival U.S. broadcaster Tribune Media Co to discuss a potential combination, people familiar with the matter …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Forbes, Deadline, AllAccess.com and Axios

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune Media's Q4 earnings miss estimates with $19M profit, up YoY from a loss of $380.9M, and revenue rising 11% to $529.6M

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Alexandra Alter / New York Times:

Penguin Random House to publish books by Barack and Michelle Obama, at a price sources say likely stretches to “tens of millions” — Penguin Random House will publish coming books by former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama, the publishing company …

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

Emmis sells Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Orange Coast magazines to Hour Media Group; LA mag's EIC and editor-at-large to leave but Orange Coast will keep staff — Boom. The long and award-winning Emmis era at Los Angeles Magazine came to a crashing end Tuesday when the magazine was sold to a publisher of magazines in Detroit.

Discussion: Emmis Communications, Orange County Business …, @nmillions, @msamywallace, @marymeltonla, @marymeltonla, @marymeltonla, @laobserved, Radio & Television … and Adweek

Dennis Romero / LA Weekly:
Sources: the 6+ staff laid off at Los Angeles Magazine were all women, including Editor-in-Chief Mary Melton

Discussion: Ad Age, Folio, @aminawrite, @clarajeffery and @eatingla

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $1M to ProPublica; the non-profit newsroom will use some of the money to hire extra staff — Craig Newmark, the entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Craigslist, announced on Wednesday a $1 million gift to ProPublica.

Discussion: @mathewi

Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:

Sources: Disney CEO Bob Iger is considering running for President in 2020 as a Democrat — Iger told THR in June that “a lot of people have urged me to seek political office,” and now he's considering the prodding for him to lead the Democratic ticket. — Disney CEO Bob Iger already runs the world's most successful media company.

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Nat Levy / GeekWire:

AWS says it has fixed cloud storage issues affecting northern Virginia data centers, which affected some media sites — An outage of Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and updates as events unfolded.

Discussion: TechCrunch, USA Today, VentureBeat, The Verge, Light Reading, The Hill, NPR, WKRG-TV, Axios and VentureBeat

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Vice announces deals with eight mobile partners, including Verizon, and the launch of Vice+, a subscription video on demand service — They include direct-to-consumer, original production, licensing and Viceland programming agreements, particularly in the Asia Pacific region.

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

SoundCloud debuts SoundCloud Go $4.99/month plan with 120M tracks ad free, will still offer its SoundCloud Go+ $9.99/month plan, which offers 150M tracks — SoundCloud has rebooted its paid membership plan with a new budget option less than a year after it launched.

Discussion: Forbes, SoundCloud, CNET, Bloomberg, USA Today, Consumerist, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget, hypebot, RAIN News and MacRumors

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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