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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Discovery Communications Q1: earnings of $215M, down 18% YoY, revenue up 3% to $1.61B, US ad revenue up 1%, and a slight decline in subscribers — CEO David Zaslav and his team unveil the cable networks company's latest financials. — Discovery Communications, the company behind …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Financial news site TheStreet posts Q1 loss of $1.2M, down from $3.4M last year, with revenue falling 5% to $15.3M; company may have stock delisted from Nasdaq — Financial news site TheStreet.com reported Tuesday a lower first quarter loss than a year ago due to cutting expenses, meeting Wall Street expectations.
Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
The Macron hack had little effect on the French election likely due to bereft coverage and an absence of a robust right-wing broadcast media — PARIS — French readers awoke on Monday to headlines about its young president-elect, Emmanuel Macron, and his decisive defeat of the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In contrast with American journalists' approach to the Clinton email story, French journalists exercised sound judgement in covering the Macron leak — The hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's French campaign appear to be spectacularly mundane, according to people who have read them.
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Ginger Adams Otis / New York Daily News:
Two more Fox News employees joined the race discrimination lawsuit on Monday, accusing the network of “plantation-style management” — Two more Fox News employees joined a race discrimination lawsuit Monday against the network, its parent company and two high-ranking executives.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Profile of Judy Woodruff, who has been covering Washington since 1977 and is now anchoring PBS NewsHour, with viewership up 20% YoY — WASHINGTON — It had already been a long day, but Judy Woodruff wasn't in the mood to slow down. — Ms. Woodruff, the anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” …
The Guardian:
Sources: Kelvin MacKenzie is leaving The Sun newspaper and is currently negotiating his exit, after penning a column containing racial slurs — Former editor, who has written weekly column since 2015, is understood to be negotiating exit terms — Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has digitized every article since 1867, charging $7.99 for 30-day access and $29.95 for a six-month subscription — On Friday, Jan. 5, 1979, Prince made page 1D of the Minneapolis Star. — The piece about the 19-year-old singer's return to Minneapolis was below the fold, under a piece about Disney.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Pandora announces $150M investment from private equity firm KKR as it posts $132M Q1 loss, resignation of two board members, new independent board committee — Pandora Media Inc. received $150 million from KKR & Co. and will step up its efforts to explore strategic options, including a possible sale of the internet radio company.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Richard Simmons sues National Enquirer, Radar Online, and American Media, Inc. for libel and invasion of privacy over “cruel and malicious” sex-change stories — In a libel complaint, the fitness star says the publication knew its source wasn't credible and that he has …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Christian Science Monitor launches Monitor Daily, an emailed daily news digest that will cost $11/month, with the goal of reaching 10K subscribers in a year — “The Daily is really in the service of this mission of making people more thoughtful, less neurotic, more calm, and seeing the world through the lens of progress."
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Shadia Nasralla / Reuters:
Austrian court rules Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech across the platform and not just in Austria, strengthening an earlier ruling — Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech, an Austrian court has ruled, in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force …
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