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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Sources: Bloomberg reporters express concern after Michael Bloomberg said his company might not cover politics if he ran for president — Reporters at Bloomberg News are on edge after their boss announced that if he chooses to run for president in 2020 — a decision he will have to finalize relatively soon …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News in the US and releases specs for publishers for single-topic audio stories — People like smart speakers, but there are a lot of things they don't like about news on smart speakers.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, MediaPost, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, @jbenton and @niemanlab, more at Techmeme »
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
MoviePass is introducing three new plans offering three movies/month, but with restrictions, in Jan, as subscribers decline and cash flow remains problematic — LOS ANGELES — The last year has been a roller coaster with 20 loops for MoviePass and its customers.
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Variety, /Film, USA Today, TechCrunch, Vox, MediaPost, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Vanity Fair, The A.V. Club, Gothamist, The Week, Business Insider, @frankpallotta, The Verge, Fast Company, Engadget and The Wrap
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Reddit says it now gets 1.4B native video views per month and serves 13M+ hours of video monthly, up 38% since the beginning of 2018 — Community highlights, best-of's and the top trends for the year ahead — This time of year, there are recaps and best-ofs a-plenty …
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Tubefilter, @mattnavarra, @dougcantor and @nmfreed
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Weekly Standard is dying so its patron, Philip Anschutz, can strengthen his other conservative political publication, the Washington Examiner — Its Never-Trump crusade violated the first commandment of political magazines: Keep your rich owner happy. — Political magazines depend …
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New York Times, @nickgillespie, @billkristol, The Week, @newrepublic and bookforum.com
BuzzFeed News:
An imposter Facebook account spread early misinformation about the Honduran migrant caravan; Facebook has deactivated it, declines to give account details — Days before the migrant caravan left Honduras, a fake Facebook account was used to try to bolster its numbers.
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@buzzfeednews, @spiccoli, @aflores and @kenbensinger
Chris Smith / Forbes:
The Players' Tribune acquires Unscriptd, whose mobile app lets athletes create, edit, and publish short-form videos, and which'll be rebranded The Players' Post — When Derek Jeter founded The Players' Tribune in 2014, he did so to give fellow athletes an outlet where they could tell their stories directly to fans.
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SportsPro Media, SportsPro Media, SportTechie, @roter, @forbes, @mathewi, Awful Announcing, PR Newswire and MediaPost
Rani Molla / Recode:
Ampere Analysis: Comcast, WarnerMedia, Fox, and Disney shows make up nearly 20% of Netflix's content library while originals account for 8% — The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours. — Following Netflix's lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business.
Sarah Clark Schiff / Facebook:
Facebook to launch political ad library for India in early 2019, requiring political advertisers to confirm identity/location, exempts eligible news publishers — It's important that people know more about the ads they see — especially those that reference political figures, political parties, elections, and legislation.
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Adweek, @coreypein, @cyrilsam and VentureBeat
Associated Press:
Ecuador's president says the UK has provided guarantees that Julian Assange won't be extradited to a country with the death penalty, so he can leave the embassy — QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president says Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Julian Assange to leave …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Music rolls out new features that let people chat more naturally with Alexa to narrow playlist options and indicate music preferences — Amazon Music, reportedly the third-largest subscription-based music service worldwide, is doubling down on voice.
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Variety, RAIN News, MIDiA Research, Fast Company, VentureBeat and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Billboard names Hannah Karp editorial director; magazine consulted with Poynter Institute on reestablishing editorial independence from its business division — One of the biggest jobs in music journalism sat vacant for two and a half years. Now Billboard magazine has finally found its new top editor …
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Billboard, Music Business Worldwide and @ericboehlert
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