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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Comcast plans to include Netflix with its TV bundles starting this month and gives no details about pricing; it will handle Netflix billing for customers — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), the leading U.S. cable television provider, will offer new video packages …
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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Univision laid off another 150 people on Thursday across the company, including at Fusion Media Group — The cutting at Univision continues. The company laid off more than 150 people on Thursday, across the company, including at the beleaguered Fusion Media Group.
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The Wrap, New York Post and The Daily Beast
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Tronc fires Lewis D'Vorkin, chief content officer of Tribune Interactive, and lays off several dozen others, including LA-based video and online content teams — Former Los Angeles Times Editor in Chief Lewis D'Vorkin was fired by Tronc Inc. on Thursday and several dozen other employees of the company were laid off.
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Berkeleyside:
Berkeleyside, a local news site in Berkeley, CA, completes its direct public offering and raises $1M, the first news site in the country to do so — Berkeleyside announced today that it has raised $1 million in capital from 355 of its readers, making it the first news site in the country to do a successful Direct Public Offering.
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The Lenfest Institute …
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine:
Sources: Snapchat redesign has led to metrics volatility for Discover publishers; Snap has invited publishers to daylong summits for discussion — When Snapchat first rolled out its redesigned app to a select group in January — users in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom — it was met with an immediate backlash.
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Wall Street Journal and Digiday
Adam Thomas / European Journalism Centre:
The EJC, with €1.7M funding from the News Integrity Initiative and Civil, to offer grants to emerging EU media organizations in October 2018 and February 2019 — It's time to get serious about new journalism models — The European Journalism Centre believes journalists have a key role …
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Nieman Lab and Journalism.co.uk
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai declines to investigate Sinclair after a dozen senators requested a probe under “news distortion” standard of the public interest test — Pai springs into action—and much faster than when Trump wanted to punish NBC. — Democratic lawmakers yesterday followed …
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Josh Schwartz / Nieman Lab:
Chartbeat: Google Chrome Suggestions is driving 100M+ visits a month to news sites in US on Android, is fast approaching Twitter as a referrer to news — It's driving over 100 million visits a month to news sites in the United States — on Android alone. And it's an even bigger factor in France, Argentina, Brazil, and elsewhere.
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Business Insider
The Guardian:
UK court on right to be forgotten: Google has to remove links about one man who “showed remorse” for past conviction, can keep links for another, who didn't — Businessman wins legal action to force removal of search results about past conviction
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Press Gazette, BBC, The Independent and Politico, more at Techmeme »
Michael Calderone / Politico:
AP acknowledges killing a story in August 2017 on National Enquirer squashing a rumor about a Trump “love child”; NYT and WSJ say they also pursued story — AP acknowledges spiking and then reviving a story of how The National Enquirer paid off a Trump tipster.
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Poynter, @scottmstedman, Mediaite, @will_bunch, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, Washington Post and The Wrap
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Associated Press:
Sources: National Enquirer owner paid former Trump doorman $30K for rumor that Trump had illegitimate child; contract had $1M fine if rumor disclosed elsewhere
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CNNMoney, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, @mj_lee, CBS Los Angeles, Fox News, The Wrap, Bob Bianchini, Slate, @jamilsmith, CNNMoney, emptywheel, Vanity Fair, ThinkProgress, New York Times and @debramessing
Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Hulu offering subscribers HBO add-on for $4.99/month for a limited time; if used, after six months, price rises to $14.99/month — Hulu is giving its subscribers a deep discount on HBO just in time for the return of “Westworld” later this month: The video subscription service began selling …
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USA Today, CNET, The New York Observer, Engadget, The Verge and Seeking Alpha
Don Thompson / Associated Press:
Carl Ferrer, Backpage.com CEO, pleads guilty to state, US charges of conspiracy, money laundering; Texas AG says the company pleaded guilty to human trafficking — https://apnews.com/42a8140a1b3c49a8a2f4 54bf79283474 — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The chief executive of a website …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
eMarketer: growth of native ad spending is slowing, will rise 31% in 2018 after growing about 50% in 2017; over 75% of 2018 mobile display ads will be native — Research firm eMarketer expects most of the growth in native ad spending in U.S. to come from mobile
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