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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Filings: Spotify reaches 140M MAUs as 2016 revenue grew over 50% YoY to $3.3B, with a net loss of $601M; firm agrees to pay big labels $2B+ over next two years — The streaming service posted revenue of $3.3 billion last year; it has promised big checks in exchange for better rates.
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The Wrap, Business Insider, United States, TechCrunch, Forbes, MacRumors, hypebot, The Verge, Variety, @gerberkawasaki, @pkafka and @mathewi, more at Techmeme »
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Fox News has dropped the marketing slogan “Fair & Balanced”, invented by Roger Ailes in 1996, to be replaced by “Most Watched. Most Trusted.” — As Fox News moves further into the post-Roger Ailes era, the network is shedding one of its most iconic elements.
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New York Times, TVWeek.com, Vanity Fair, Mashable, The Guardian, Newser, Talking New Media, Business Insider, Politicus USA, Fortune, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Week and @jbflint
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
One month after the death of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a number of publications and organizations have created a new campaign to push for journalist protection — “It is a problem that is affecting fundamental human rights of all Mexicans — the right to freedom of expression, the rights to access information."
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Nieman Storyboard and Nieman Reports
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
CNN files lawsuit against FBI seeking Comey's memos about his talks with Trump, accusing the agency of violating the federal FOI Act — Washington (CNN)In federal court Thursday, CNN filed a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to turn over former director James Comey's memos documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump.
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The Wrap, Variety, @brianstelter and @brianstelter
Kristine Lu / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 80%+ of US adults get news on their phones, up from half that four years ago, with 25% of growth over past year coming from 65-year-old adults — Mobile devices have rapidly become one of the most common ways for Americans to get news, and the sharpest growth in the past year …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Social video app Musical.ly launches a series of short original shows, after signing deals with Hearst, NBCUniversal, and Viacom — Musical.ly, the lip-syncing social video app popular among teen girls, is stirring professionally produced content into its mix of user-generated content.
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Wire and The Verge
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
US Office of Government Ethics calls retroactive, unsigned ethics waiver that applies to Steve Bannon “problematic”, in reply to Democratic senators — The Office of Government Ethics said in a letter to Democratic senators this week that the Trump administration's blanket ethics …
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United States Office …, @maggiejordanacn, @normeisen, The Week, Bloomberg, Mother Jones and @bystevereilly
Emma Löfgren / The Local:
An investigation by a Swedish crime podcast, Spår, led to the release of a man wrongfully imprisoned for murder — Kaj Linna, who was convicted in northern Sweden over murder charges he always denied, has been fully acquitted in a retrial. After 13 years behind bars, he is now a free man.
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@nbaines2, @ekjlofgren and @thelocalsweden
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon, CBS, Disney, HBO, NBCU, Netflix, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox form anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment — Members of anti-piracy coalition include Disney, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, NBCU, CBS, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox
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Naked Security, Forbes, Digital Spy, Screen Rant, Los Angeles Business Journal and Advanced Television
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg Businessweek unveils redesign and launches paywall, offering readers four free articles a month, with digital access costing $50-$60/year — Bloomberg Businessweek is introducing a two-tiered membership model starting today, joining other publishers that are trying …
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Nieman Lab, Financial Times and Businessweek
Ian Morris / Forbes:
Report: Netflix has 50.85M subscribers, surpassing major US cable networks' 48.61M for the first time; cable subs down 4M in the five years Netflix's doubled — Netflix has, for the first time, surpassed cable in total subscribers according to Leichtman Research.
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Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Report: full-time Dow Jones female employees earn on average less than 85% of their male counterparts — The union that represents many journalists at The Wall Street Journal has published an analysis that shows a persistent wage gap between men and women employed by Dow Jones & Company.
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