Mediagazer: Viacom Q2 earnings: revenues fell 3.3% to $3.15B with domestic affiliate revenue falling 4% to $934M (Reuters)

Justin Baragona / Contemptor:

Infosec expert for Joy Reid says significant evidence exists that her old blog was compromised and some recently circulated posts were not on site at any time — Earlier this week, Mediaite published a bombshell report on the discovery of a large number of homophobic posts that had been discovered …

Discussion: Mediaite, @erikwemple, @ggreenwald, Sean Hannity, @angryblacklady, @angryblacklady, @liamstack, @phonedude_mln, Web Science …, shoqvalue.com, @bernstein, Mediaite and BuzzFeed

Chris Butler / Internet Archive Blogs:
Wayback Machine says it declined to take down “fraudulent” blog posts after Joy Reid's lawyers contacted archive; robots.txt later excluded blog from archives

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, CNNMoney, Mediaite, New York Times, Contemptor, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Splinter, Fast Company, @dangillmor, @kfile, Boing Boing, @ggreenwald, @kfile, @jamie_maz, The Intercept, @caulkthewagon, @ggreenwald and @jamie_maz

Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Viacom says it is working with Snap on multiyear original content and ad deal that would include Snapchat influencers in new and existing shows — Viacom and Snapchat are working together to create new shows that would star top Snapchat stars. — In a multiyear original content …

Reuters:

Viacom Q2 earnings: revenues fell 3.3% to $3.15B with domestic affiliate revenue falling 4% to $934M — (Reuters) - Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue on Wednesday, as moves to sell rather than release its movies returned Paramount Pictures to profitability.

Discussion: The Wrap

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

The Guardian halves its losses to £19M in the year to the end of March and is on track to break even in 2018 — Publisher reports smaller than expected loss of £19m as benefits of tabloid switch filter through — The publisher of the Guardian and Observer halved its losses …

New York Times:

Danish inventor Peter Madsen convicted of murdering journalist Kim Wall; court heard how he invited her on to his submarine with the intention of killing her — COPENHAGEN — A Danish inventor who admitted to dismembering a journalist and discarding her body from the submarine he built …

Discussion: Politico, @afreedma, @kennwhite, @erinlea7 and @ap

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Some YouTube thumbnails depicted bestiality, now pulled; YouTube says monitoring tech missed because bestiality thumbnails may lack signals of typical porn — There is bestiality on YouTube, and it's surprisingly easy to find. It's also surprisingly prevalent, but not in videos …

Discussion: Engadget, Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, @pkafka, @jimwaterson, @gaywonk, @mattmittenthal, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @cwarzel and YouTube Blog, more at Techmeme »

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

Comcast makes £22B bid for British broadcaster Sky, at £12.50 a share, sparking a bidding war with 21st Century Fox and Disney — The US cable behemoth Comcast has declared a bidding war with 21st Century Fox and Disney for control of Sky by making a formal bid for Britain's dominant pay-TV operator.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and Business Insider

Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:

McClatchy's Sacramento Bee announces plans to lay off or buy out 14 editorial staffers and eight working on production and copy desk, effective in early May — The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday announced another round of layoffs in its newsroom. The latest round of job cuts includes 14 journalists …

Discussion: Comstock's magazine, @sacbiz, @rl_bynum, @mattdpearce, @kylebuis, @callaghanpeter, @andrewsheeler, @fergusonbj, @byrosenberg, @newsfletch, @byrosenberg and @byrosenberg

Lucia Moses / Digiday:
McClatchy partners with Google to roll out its new subscription tool, Subscribe with Google, across all 30 of its local news sites across 14 states

Discussion: Poynter, @cforman, @laurenhorsch, @dawnbvaughan, @doug_hanks, @mcclatchy and @cforman

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Memo: staff in The Wall Street Journal's editing operation have been asked to reapply for their jobs following reorganization — Jason Anders, chief news editor at The Wall Street Journal, and Steve Wisnefski, editor of professional news, sent out the following message to the staff on Tuesday:

Discussion: @michellemanafy and @moorehn

Chronicle of Higher Education:

Drew Cloud, an “expert” on student loans quoted by WaPo, CNBC, and The Boston Globe, is a fictitious persona created by a student finance company — Drew Cloud is everywhere. The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets …

Discussion: @mollyhc, @zittrain, @edpolicyhabash, @ralphehanson, @trace_urdan, @dynarski and Talking Biz News

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast Q1 earnings: $22.8B in revenue, boosted by a 21.3% increase in revenue at NBCUniversal, but lost 93K cable customers while gaining 351K broadband subs — Comcast beat Wall Street expectations for the first quarter, as NBCUniversal revenue jumped 21.3% year over year thanks to a big boost …

Discussion: MediaPost, Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.

Discussion: Slate, Recode, @alexeheath, RAIN News, The Verge, Engadget, Fortune, newsroom.spotify.com, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Fast Company, @daigosweden, @alexeheath, Engadget, TechHive and @lucas_shaw

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Sinclair revises plan for Tribune deal, would sell 23 TV stations, keep New York's WPIX, sell but operate Chicago's WGN, end up with 215 stations in 102 markets — Sinclair Broadcast Group has been forced to significantly revise its plan for station divestitures if its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media is approved.

Discussion: Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, @jeffjarvis, TVSpy, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu and sbgi.net