Top News:
Hollywood Reporter:
Disney is developing a number of Star Wars series for its streaming service, CEO Bob Iger said during an earnings call on Tuesday — Disney CEO Bob Iger tells investors that the company is close to revealing at least one of the producing teams behind one of the projects.
Discussion:
StarWars.com, Slate, @americanstnick, The Playlist, Vanity Fair, Deadline, The A.V. Club, /Film, CinemaBlend, Press Association and io9
RELATED:
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription — How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?
Discussion:
Fast Company, Forbes, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, The Wrap, AppAdvice.com, Engadget, CNBC, CNNMoney, Variety, Slate, Associated Press, The Verge, @spingriffey, 9to5Mac and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Disney reports mixed Q1 results with revenue of $15.35B vs. $15.45B expected; media and networks, consumer and interactive, and studio units miss targets
Discussion:
/Film, Recode, Mashable, Broadcasting & Cable, The Walt Disney Company, FierceCable, The Wrap, Variety, The Playlist, The New York Observer and @jyarow, more at Techmeme »
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Tronc forms new company, Tribune Interactive, with Ross Levinsohn as its CEO and ex-LA Times EIC Lewis D'Vorkin as its chief content officer — Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has agreed to purchase the Los Angeles Times from its parent company Tronc, restoring local ownership …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, LA Observed, The Wrap, New York Times, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Chicago Business, @priyakkumar, 89.3 KPCC, @nycjim, @davidfolkenflik, CNNMoney, Press Gazette, KTLA, L.A. Times Guild, Politico, Mediawire, Splinter, LA Observed, The Wrap, @jayrosen_nyu, Variety, KTLA, NPR, The Week and BloombergQuint
RELATED:
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Tronc has confirmed it is selling the Los Angeles Times and a number of other newspapers to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong for $500M in cash
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, TechCrunch, CNBC, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, CNNMoney, @rachelking, Fast Company, @gerryfsmith, @latlands, @mollyesque, @jackshafer, @chrismegerian, @bencjacobs, @kevinding, @billshaikin, @byrosenberg, @kenvogel, @petersterne, @jbflint, @mayorofla, @brianstelter, @gabekahn and Washington Post
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media missed its 2017 revenue target of $805M by $100M+, largely due to its Viceland TV channel; co-president Creighton unlikely to return to role — Digital media company misses revenue forecast; shareholders push company to turn a profit — Vice Media is facing uncertainty …
Discussion:
Fast Company, @raju, @keachhagey, @srabil and @asharma
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content — Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, The Stranger …, Engadget, @d1gi, @profcarroll and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Samantha Cole / Motherboard:
Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results — The giant porn site puts deepfakes in the same category as revenge porn.
Discussion:
Engadget, The Verge, The Guardian, The Next Web, Mashable, The Verge, Fast Company, The Daily Dot and Trusted Reviews, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Snapchat is launching to tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage — Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin
Discussion:
@ctrlzee, @georgia_wells, @kerrymflynn, AppAdvice.com and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Tom Tryniski, who has scanned ~50M newspaper pages dating back to the 1800s from US and Canadian pubs, into his online repository Fultonhistory.com — Tom Tryniski does not lock his doors. He spends most days sitting in his living room in Fulton, New York, 30 miles northwest of Syracuse …
Discussion:
@michaelsocolow, @alanamhmd, @usprojectcjr, @4manreports, @megansmolenyak, @bypetevernon, @alexandrianeas, @c_chisholm, @jaanpill, Blaine T. Bettinger and @mathewi
Robert Feder:
Three former editors of DNAinfo Chicago are starting a local news site with five reporters, funded by subscriptions with support from blockchain-based Civil — Three editors from the former DNAinfo Chicago are reuniting to start up a new neighborhood news website to be funded by reader subscriptions.
Discussion:
@emily__olsen, @lillian_ruiz, @rachelholliday, @amandarivkin, @greenfieldjohn, @byalisonbowen, @amlwhere and Stephanie Graves
Financial Times:
Study of 48K Facebook pages and 14K Twitter accounts from Oct. 2017 to Jan.: Trump backers share more extremist and phony posts than all other groups combined — Ultra-rightwing conservatives shared more false stories on Facebook than all other political groups combined in the three months …
Discussion:
The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Guardian, CleanTechnica, The Computational …, Newsweek, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, @markfollman, @stepleton6, @samueloakford, @mattgarrahan, @john_hudson, @solange_lebourg, Harold Capenter, @niemanlab, Oxford Internet Institute and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Kelly Virella / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT's Monica Drake, the first African-American woman appointed to the print masthead, on her 20 years at the Times, breaking barriers, and new projects — In December, the veteran New York Times editor Monica Drake made history when she became the first African-American woman on the newsroom's print masthead.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
The Information's Jessica Lessin and Stratechery's Ben Thompson argue differentiated content and online subscriptions form a viable model for local news outlets — You could almost hear the trumpets blaring in the background of Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that Facebook …
Deputy Ed. - Gen. Assignment Desk, DC — 
EU Technology Reporter, Brussels — 
Breaking News Reporter, NY — 
Harrisburg Reporter, PA — 
Senior Editor - Styles, NY — 
Part-time Editor, Remote — 
Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — 
Assistant Digital Editor, MA — 
Senior Editor - Visuals (Temporary), DC — 
South Reporter, GA/Remote — 
Private Capital Reporter, London — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Articles Editor, CA — 
Pharma Reporter, Remote US — 
Metro Reporter, TN — 
Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — 
Politics Reporter, Brussels — 
Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — 
Social Strategy Editor, NY — 
Business Reporter, TX — 
Senior Narrative Editor, CA — 
News Correspondent, MS — 
Accountability Reporter, NC — 
Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — 
Housing Reporter, OK — 
Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — 
Writer/Editor, Remote — 
Political Reporter, TX — 
Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — 
Education Lab Editor, WA — 
Staff Writer, MA/Remote — 
State Worker Reporter, CA — 
Executive Editor, NM — 
Reporter, NC — 
