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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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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
Thomas K. Arnold / Variety:
Comcast becomes the first pay-TV provider and the seventh digital retail partner for Disney's Movies Anywhere, which has 6M registered users — Editorial Director, Home Media Magazine — Comcast's Xfinity Digital Store has joined digital movie-collection service Movies Anywhere …
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Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, Multichannel News and Light Reading
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
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.
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@terabithia4 and @utknightcenter
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.
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
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
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 Business Worldwide and Music Ally
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 Times:
CBS draft report says former CEO Leslie Moonves destroyed evidence and misled investigators to preserve his reputation and save his $120M severance deal — Facing multiple sexual misconduct allegations and fearing his career as an entertainment titan was over, Leslie Moonves …
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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 …
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