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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.
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Sources: Netflix paid $100M to license Friends in the US from AT&T's WarnerMedia through 2019, up from $30M/year, ahead of AT&T's 2019 streaming service launch
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Recode, Washington Post, CNN, @jonfriedman, The A.V. Club, @jasondashbailey, @shiraovide, @jacobfeldman4, @dkthomp, Broadcasting & Cable, The Ringer, Slate and The Week
Mother Jones:
How Facebook became the primary source and destroyer of news with algorithm changes and inaction on propaganda and disinformation, in favor of the bottom line — Right-wing propaganda is still doing great. Journalism, not so much. — Mother Jones illustration; Getty
Better News:
Q&A with editors at the Sacramento Bee and the Bay Area News Group on the outcome of their agreement to pool statehouse and Bay Area sports coverage — Here's an idea to steal and adapt: The Bay Area News Group and McClatchy's Sacramento Bee, two Northern California news organizations, are sharing stories, photos and video.
Discussion:
@terabithia4 and @utknightcenter
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.
Richard Conway / BBC Sport:
Britain's big gambling companies agree to stop advertising during live sports broadcasts, including any game that starts before 9pm — Britain's biggest gambling companies have voluntarily agreed to a “whistle-to-whistle” television advertising ban. — The Remote Gambling Association …
Discussion:
The Guardian
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Inside NJ.com's The Force Report, which examined 72K+ incident forms from 2012 to 2016 to expose patterns of use of force by police statewide — Reporters at NJ.com took 72,607 incident forms from 565 municipalities in the last five years. — It took 506 public records requests.
Asia Fields / The Seattle Times:
The Tacoma News Tribune to lay off 67 employees starting in February as it outsources its printing and says no newsroom staff will be cut — Layoffs will begin in February and last through September. They follow the company's recent decision to outsource its printing business.
Discussion:
@byrosenberg
USA Today:
Gannett President and CEO Robert Dickey announces he will retire in May 2019 as board initiates a succession plan — Robert J. Dickey announced his retirement and has agreed to remain with the company until May 7, 2019. If a successor is identified prior to that date, Dickey will stay on as an adviser.
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CNN
Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet says an international investigation is needed to determine who killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi — GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that an international investigation was needed …
Discussion:
Press Gazette and Mediaite
New York Post:
Sources: Liberty Media is looking to increase its ~5% stake in iHeartMedia to 35% after the latter returns to public markets from bankruptcy in February 2019 — Radio giant iHeartMedia just took a major step toward emerging from bankruptcy — and falling into the clutches of John Malone.
Discussion:
Music Ally and Music Business Worldwide
Hollywood Reporter:
In Dec 2017, June Seley Kimmel tweeted that Les Moonves had sexually harassed her; the CBS board was aware of her account before New Yorker story emerged — June Seley Kimmel, who has recounted her experience with the ousted CBS mogul to company lawyers, recalls her traumatic 1985 encounter.
Discussion:
@kimmasters, The Wrap and TVWeek.com
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New York Times:
CBS draft report says former CEO Leslie Moonves destroyed evidence and misled investigators to preserve his reputation and save his $120M severance deal
Discussion:
New York Times, @ceggersmidwest, Women in the World, @meganmurp, @pkafka, Vox, @slack2thefuture, NPR, The Blast, @nytimes, Business Insider, @hunteryharris, TVWeek.com, The Daily Caller, @miriamelder, @yashar, Slate, The Guardian, @poniewozik, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Fortune, The Week, Newser, CNN, Variety, New York Post, Broadcasting & Cable, TMZ.com, The Wrap, Mediaite and New York Times
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Source: Vox Media's 2018 revenues are projected to increase 15%-18% YoY, with the company planning to charge for certain content across its sites — Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems.
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, AdExchanger, @dylanmatt, @choire, Business Insider, @sophiekleeman, @laurenrabaino, @jonathanvswan, @akm1410, @williams_paige, @rafat and CNN
Janine di Giovanni / Harper's:
A war reporter reflects on the trauma and sacrifices demanded by a male-dominated field; film, Bearing Witness, captures the struggles better than A Private War — Life during wartime is more complicated than easily digestible, Hollywood heroism — When young women come to me and say …
Discussion:
@nickturse
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: The Weekly Standard's future is uncertain, after months of searching for a buyer; parent company MediaDC has requested a meeting with staff next week — New York (CNN Business)The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication …
Discussion:
New York Times, New York Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @brendannyhan, @kurtschlichter, @scottmgreer, @cjane87, @mckaycoppins, @esotericcd, @madbev14, @ezraklein, @giladedelman, @ericboehlert, @markdavis, @maxboot, @timodc, Politico, @oliverdarcy, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Hill and The Daily Beast
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