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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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Recode
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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Politico
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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USA Today, Business Insider, MediaPost, Variety, Fast Company, The Verge, The Week, Engadget and The Wrap
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
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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Awful Announcing, PR Newswire, SportTechie, SportsPro Media, SportsPro Media and MediaPost
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 …
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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
Alex Stedman / Variety:
No female directors were nominated for the 2019 Golden Globes, which have only nominated five women in the category since they began in 1944 — Once again, the Golden Globes have an all-male line-up of best director nominees. — The nominees, announced Thursday morning, are Bradley Cooper …
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The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable
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.
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
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.
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