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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: CNN to target savings on digital by eliminating up to ~50 jobs worldwide this week, cuts to affect CNN Money, video, product, tech, social publishing — A year ago, CNN was positioning itself as ready to take on Vice and BuzzFeed in the digital space.
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Wired:
A behind-the-scenes look at two tumultuous years inside Facebook as it struggled with fake news, its impact on the 2016 election, and its battle with News Corp — ONE DAY IN late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
eMarketer says Facebook lost ~2.8M US users under 25 in 2017, predicts it will lose ~2.1M in 2018; Instagram's US users will grow 13%, Snapchat's by 9% in 2018 — That's according to research firm eMarketer. — Facebook is losing young users even quicker than expected, according to new estimates by eMarketer.
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: billionaire financiers behind Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire website in talks to buy Glenn Beck's TheBlaze — The people who head Ben Shapiro's conservative news site are in talks to buy Glenn Beck's troubled media empire TheBlaze, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Mediaite, @simonmaloy, The Wrap, AllAccess.com and @rightwingwatch
Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
Unilever marketing boss Keith Weed is to threaten to pull advertising from Facebook, Google, and other digital platforms, citing fake news, among other concerns — Social media giants grilled on ‘fake news’ — Unilever is threatening to pull its advertising from digital platforms …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook to allow publisher paywalls in its iOS app starting 3/1; users get five articles before being asked to pay, publishers get 100% subscription revenue — Facebook will begin allowing news publishers to run paywalls inside Facebook's iOS app starting March 1st.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A week after Meredith takeover of Time Inc., sources speculate about potential buyers for some of the magazines, especially Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated — The sudden Midwesternizing of a Manhattan media empire. — It's been a little more than a week since Time Inc. ceased to exist …
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Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
Former Senior FBI Official Is Leading BuzzFeed's Effort to Verify Trump Dossier — Anthony Ferrante coordinated the U.S. government's response to Russian election interference. Now he's helping a news site defend itself from a Russian billionaire's lawsuit.
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The Hill, @foreignpolicy, The Week and @janawinter
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
NBC apologizes to Koreans for remarks by Olympics commentator Joshua Ramo who said Koreans viewed Japanese occupation of the country as a positive thing — Friday's Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in South Korea were, by most accounts, spectacular.
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Awful Announcing, USA Today, @theresaafallon, @geesubay, Vanity Fair, The Korea Times, New York Times, Mediaite, The Korea Herald, iMediaEthics, The Guardian, Adweek and Newser
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Otter Media, the joint venture of AT&T and the Chernin Group, names Tony Goncalves as CEO — Tony Goncalves, previously head of AT&T's digital brands group and a former DirecTV exec, is joining Otter Media as CEO of the company, the digital-media joint venture of the Chernin Group and AT&T.
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Hollywood Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, Multichannel News, Tubefilter, FierceCable, PR Newswire and VideoInk
Mark Brown / The Guardian:
BBC iPlayer had an average 272M programs streamed per month in 2017, up 11% on 2016 with December the best month on record with 327M requests — Figures up 11% on 2016 with an average of 272m streaming requests a month … BBC iPlayer had its most successful year in 2017 …
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London Evening Standard, @ta_mills, Advanced Television and The Drum
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Conservatives treat liberal bias in mainstream media as fact; reporters should stop conciliatory approach, accept that Conservatism and journalism conflict — If you get your news from conservative media these days, you probably don't know that President Donald Trump's lawyers believe …
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@niawag2011, @brianbeutler and @theplumlinegs
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Fusion partners with Cheddar to air a weekly 30-min show, The Point with Jon Steinberg, premiering on February 15 — ‘The Point with Jon Steinberg’ premieres February 15 — Fusion and Cheddar, the financial news network focused on younger audiences, have teamed on a ten-episode …
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Talking Biz News, Thanks:@jonsteinberg
The Guardian:
Sweden wanted to drop its extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013 but was dissuaded by the UK's prosecution service — UK prosecutors tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from doing so, exchange shows … Swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings …
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