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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
AT&T files trademark applications for “Verge TV”, but The Verge notes its name is trademarked and highlights its existing YouTube channel — Nah, we'll keep it — Last month, AT&T filed several trademark applications for “Verge TV,” which suggests the company may be working …
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Kendall Baker / Axios:
Axios has acquired Sports Internet, a newsletter run by ex-ESPN staffer and Bleacher Report writer Kendall Baker, and will relaunch it as Axios Sports on Monday — Dearest readers, I'm beyond excited to announce that Sports Internet has been acquired by Axios and will be relaunching as Axios Sports on Monday.
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New York Times:
Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes — The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
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Fortune and @dangillmor, more at Techmeme »
Marcus Baram / Fast Company:
In her new book, Jill Abramson says the NYT's publisher drafted a letter “all but apologizing” to the Chinese govt for a Pulitzer-winning story on corruption — In her new book Merchants of Truth, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson claims that the news outlet's publisher drafted …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Former NYT Editor Jill Abramson says Fox News host Howard Kurtz took her new book “totally out of context” and attempted to “Foxify” it
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
NatGeo suspends episodes of Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk amid probe of sexual misconduct allegations; results of probe expected in “the next few weeks” — National Geographic Channel has pulled its long-running Neil deGrasse Tyson chat show “StarTalk” off the air, at least for now …
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The Week, @franklinavenue, New York Times, The A.V. Club and The Week
Todd VanDerWerff / Vox:
As publications cut back on culture writing or eliminate it entirely, a look at why cultural criticism helps us understand our society better — Cultural criticism is journalism. And in an era when fewer outlets support it, we need more of it, not less — I've been thinking about The Hateful Eight a lot lately.
Lexi Mainland / Los Angeles Times:
Podcasts are helping news organizations increase audience engagement, reach a younger demographic, and make a profit — I get emotional watching movies on airplanes. It doesn't matter what the story line is or how many times I've viewed it stoically on terra firma. At 40,000 feet, I submit to tears.
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Netflix faced a tough balancing act when Saudi officials claimed an episode of Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act violated local law — London (CNN Business)What's the price of censoring one episode of a Netflix show in Saudi Arabia? — Though Netflix has not released specifics on the number …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
How The Weekly Standard met its end, amid pressure from parent company execs and subscribers, as some editors plot an attempt to revive it — The Weekly Standard was killed last month, an act that had both a clear culprit and a muddy forensic trail. For twenty-three years …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
London-based Synamedia launches Credentials Sharing Insight, which scores users of pay TV and streaming video services on likelihood they're sharing passwords — Still using your ex-roommates cable credentials to watch “Game of Thrones?” That may soon be getting a lot harder …
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Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post:
LinkedIn restores Chinese access to the profile of US-based activist Zhou Fengsuo after blocking it a day earlier, says the profile was blocked in error — - Zhou, a student leader during the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, says he thinks media attention led to the change
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Tatyana Shumsky / Wall Street Journal:
Analysts say Spencer Neumann's focus as Netflix CFO will be to convince investors that expensive original content will pay off with subscriptions and profits — Spencer Neumann must convince investors that Netflix's billions of investments in original content will grow subscribers and earnings, analysts say
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