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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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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Google launches AMP story format, a mobile-friendly tool for video, image, and animation-heavy stories, partnering with CNN, Vox Media, and other publishers — The format doesn't support advertising yet, which could slow its adoption among publishers — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL .79% Google unveiled …
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TechCrunch, Google Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Android Police, Financial Times, The Verge and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
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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@simonmaloy, Mediaite, The Wrap and All Access Music Group
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Profile of MSNBC host Joy Reid, whose Saturday show AM Joy averages nearly 1M weekly viewers and has found popularity on Twitter as a leader of the #resistance — The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump, both on the air and in the Twitter ether.
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@jamilsmith, TVNewser and Bookforum
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Washington Post's Head of Innovation Jarrod Dicker is leaving the company to become the CEO of Po.et, a media blockchain company — The Washington Post's Head of Innovation Jarrod Dicker is leaving the legacy brand to become the CEO of Po.et, a media blockchain company.
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@matiasjarah
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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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 — Apple is allowing Facebook to bend the subscription rules. Starting March 1st, news publishers will be able to use their paywalls inside Facebook's iOS app.
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Recode, Fast Company, Press Gazette, MacRumors, @joshconstine, @dansinker, Hollywood Reporter and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Dave Lee / BBC:
UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd is visiting tech companies in Silicon Valley to discuss UK govt's new AI tool which can detect 94% of IS's online activity — The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, GOV.UK, Business Insider and Gigaom, more at Techmeme »
John Battelle / NewCo Shift:
Former IAB board member questions Unilever's boycott of Facebook and Google, says major advertisers have little influence on platforms — P&G, Unilever and others are throwing their weight around with Google and Facebook. The platforms can afford to ignore them.
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CNNMoney, Business Insider and The Drum
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Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
Unilever marketing boss Keith Weed threatens to pull advertising from Facebook, Google, and other digital platforms, citing fake news, among other concerns
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
PolitiFact has moved from The Tampa Bay Times to the paper's parent company, The Poynter Institute, so it can operate as a not-for-profit newsroom — PolitiFact, one of the largest and best-known fact-checking outlets in the United States, has moved its organization from the Tampa Bay Times to The Poynter Institute.
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Poynter, @raju and @markstencel
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger issues statement protesting Trump's proposed new budget which strips funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — Kerger put out a statement in response to the release of the president's proposed budget. — PBS was surely not surprised …
Aditi Sangal / Digiday:
As podcasts struggle to be discovered on social media, producers add video, newsletters, and WhatsApp and Facebook groups to gain traction — As social media platforms have pivoted to video, they've gotten publishers to adapt. But one medium has been left out: podcasts.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Howard Kurtz' book Media Madness claims bias led to a “massive imbalance” between coverage of Trump and other presidents, expressed indignation at fair coverage — Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth, Fox News media reporter Howard Kurtz's account …
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