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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Apple has now signed deals to sell 4K movies with every major Hollywood studio, except for one key player: Disney — Apple TV will offer Hollywood movies in the high-resolution format, called either 4K or UHD, for ultra-high definition — Apple Inc. AAPL -.40% has signed new deals …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Apple News is experimenting with a featured video section, comprised of editor-picked content, that runs multiple times a week — Apple News is still in its infancy as a news platform, but it's already testing its own modest pivot to video. — Apple has tried out a featured video section inside …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Eddy Cue says Apple TV app adding Sports tab, will expand to Canada and Australia this month, and to France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and UK by year's end
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The Verge, Forbes, /Film, Home Media Magazine and Ad Age
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
4K HDR movies on iTunes to cost same as HD cost previously; past HD purchases to get free upgrade to 4K; 4K streaming from Netflix, Amazon Prime coming
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Tanya Dua / Business Insider:
eMarketer has lowered its TV ad spend forecast for 2017 because consumers are cord-cutting at a higher rate than previously expected — - People are abandoning cable TV faster than previously thought, and that's having a negative effect on TV ad spending. — According to eMarketer's …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
eMarketer report: 22.2M US adults will cut the cord on cable, satellite, or telco TV in 2017, up 33% YoY; by 2021, there will be 81M cord-cutters — Research firm eMarketer cuts TV ad-spending forecast on accelerating pay-TV declines — Winter is here for cable and satellite TV operators.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How Russia is using Sputnik and RT in its information war against the West: spreading politically sensitive misinformation, challenging Western ideology, more — How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
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@jakesilverstein, @jakesilverstein, @aaanastasia, @aliasvaughn, @jimrutenberg, @will_bunch, @jessicalustig and @wendysiegelman
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Time Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs, the magazine's first female top editor, announces she is stepping down after four years as EIC, will stay on until year end — Amid yet another period of corporate tumult, the newsmagazine's first female managing editor has decided to move on.
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Ed Caesar / Esquire:
Profile of Evening Standard EIC George Osborne, an ex-Conservative MP with little journalistic experience who's using the paper to attack political adversaries — No one saw it coming: in March, to the shock of his friends, the horror of his enemies and the dismay of many observers …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook releases guidelines on ad content, prohibits monetization of violence, porn, drugs, hate, debated social issues, and other content types — Facebook wants content creators to earn money, but not at the expense of the family friendly social network it's built, or the integrity of its advertising clients.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The NYT is combining the Wirecutter and its sister pub, Sweethome, under the Wirecutter brand and is redesigning the site; Wirecutter's sales are up 50% YoY — Sales up 50% from year earlier as staff, categories expand — Review site and Times journalists to collaborate more often
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Spike TV reorganizes ahead of rebranding as Paramount Network; about 20 layoffs also affect TV Land and CMT amid restructuring — Viacom's Spike TV is experiencing a shake-up ahead of its January relaunch as Paramount Network. The reorganization will see programming head Tom Zappala depart …
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Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, FierceCable, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline and Deadline
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
New York Times White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush sign deal with Random House for book about Trump — The New York Times' masters of West Wing insider detail just made a book deal with Random House. But they want it to be more than the book version of the reality show.
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@joepompeo, Slate, The Wrap and Mashable
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview, Bill O'Reilly discusses the sexual harassment allegations made against him, a potential return to TV, Roger Ailes' death, and more — The former king of cable news enters THR's no-spin zone to discuss his exit amid harassment claims, the president's Charlottesville remarks …
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