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BBC:
BBC annual report: weekly global audience of 372M people, iPlayer has 246M monthly requests, total bill spent on paying talent down 2.5% YoY — Today the BBC has published its Annual Report for 2016/17. — The report shows that despite increased competition and changes in technology …
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Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed:
BBC's list of 96 stars earning more than £150K shows little diversity with 34 females, six black or mixed race, and four Asians — Chris Evans has been revealed as the highest-paid BBC star, earning nearly £2.25 million in the last year. — The BBC has been forced to reveal …
BBC:
BBC reports Chris Evans is highest paid star, receiving £2.2M-£2.25M last year, while Claudia Winkleman, BBC's highest paid female, earned between £450K-£500K — Chris Evans has topped the list of the BBC's best-paid stars. — He made between £2.2m …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Discovery Communications in talks to combine with Scripps Networks Interactive, reviving merger discussions that were abandoned in 2014 — Media companies previously explored tie-up, but abandoned effort in 2014 — Discovery Communications Inc. DISCB 4.11% is in talks to combine …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Why Trump's campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of his political style: display of dominance, the need for an enemy, his base loves it — Donald Trump's so-called “war with the media” is a good example of what philosophers mean by an over-determined effect: multiple causes …
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@kensmith, @milesgrant, @pomeranian99 and @jayrosen_nyu
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Even after Trump Jr.'s emails, President Trump's fake-news defense will persist because it works among Trump's base — Shouldn't President Trump's “fake news” defense be dead by now? — For months, he has relentlessly branded the possible Russian-collusion story a hoax and denigrated the reporters who dig into it.
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@newhousesu, @dabeard and @demfromct
The Wrap:
Sources: 21st Century Fox settled 1998 claim of sexual misconduct against then-Fox Sports chair David Hill, who left in 2015 but still produces events — 21st Century Fox paid off a woman who accused former top executive David Hill of sexual misconduct while he ran Fox Sports …
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@gabrielsherman, @davidfolkenflik and Media Matters for America
Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:
China's censors ramp up filtering of photo and video messages, disrupting apps like WhatsApp and WeChat following the death of political dissident Liu Xiaobo — Internet police step up their ability to filter photos — BEIJING—China's already formidable internet censors have demonstrated a new strength …
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Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston Globe CEO Doug Franklin quits after seven months, cites strategic differences with publisher; exec VP, CFO Vinay Mehra becomes president, remains CFO — Boston Globe chief executive officer Doug Franklin stepped down Tuesday morning, less than seven months into the job …
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Boston Herald, Union-News, WBUR, Boston Business Journal, WGBH News, Media Nation and Dan Kennedy, Thanks:@curtwoodward
Ross Barkan / The Guardian:
The closure of the Baltimore City Paper is a reminder that declining revenues pose a far greater threat to the news industry than Donald Trump — mid the litany of laments over how Donald Trump's nearly-there or full-blown fascist White House is ending the free press as we know it …
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Washington Post, @dabeard, Media Nation, @niemanlab and @janebsinger
Marissa Lang / San Francisco Chronicle:
Inside San Francisco's KQED as it operates in low-tech mode after a June ransomware attack — The journalists at San Francisco's public TV and radio station, KQED, have been stuck in a time warp. — All Internet-connected devices, tools and machinery have been cut off in an attempt …
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Benedict Evans:
As tech platforms experiment with TV content, a look at how corporations controlling music and ebooks lost their strategic value to tech companies — People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer.
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@pakman, @thadmcilroy, @donaldrichard, @mdudas and @benedictevans
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