Mediagazer: Interview with Mike Castellucci, creator and producer of Phoning It In, an Emmy Award-winning news series that is shot entirely with an iPhone (Caroline Scott/Journalism.co.uk)

Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:

A disorienting interview with Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar tweets, right-wing extremism, and what he'd do if Trump called on his followers to murder journalists — A Q&A with Twitter's CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he'd do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Netflix estimates it accounts for 10% of US TV screen time, shares audience numbers for some movies and TV shows, such as Bird Box's audience of 80M households — The streaming service says it now accounts for 10 percent of TV viewing time. — Netflix has more than 130 million customers watching its TV shows and movies.

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Sara Salinas / CNBC:

Netflix reports mixed Q4 earnings, with revenue of $4.19B vs. $4.21B est., says it added 8.8M global paid memberships, up from its estimate of 7.6M — - The company beat Wall Street estimates for earnings per share, but fell just below projections for revenue.

Discussion: @ranimolla, MediaPost, Mashable, Business Insider, The Wrap and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn steps down and is replaced by company President Tim Knight; the CEO and president of Tribune Interactive have also left — The Chicago Tribune newsroom at One Prudential Plaza on June 12, 2018. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) — Privacy Policy

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Daily Herald and Bloomberg

Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

NY Post Publisher Jesse Angelo is leaving the company and will be replaced by Sean Giancola; Michelle Gotthelf has been promoted to digital editor-in-chief — Sean Giancola is replacing Angelo as publisher and CEO of The New York Post. — Jesse Angelo is leaving his role as publisher …

Discussion: New York Times, The Wrap, Adweek, News Corp, @jasonhirschhorn and MediaPost

Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook:

Facebook takes down 315 Pages, 152 accounts, 4 Groups, and 41 Instagram accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.

Caroline Scott / Journalism.co.uk:

Interview with Mike Castellucci, creator and producer of Phoning It In, an Emmy Award-winning news series that is shot entirely with an iPhone — Journalist Mike Castellucci explains how he is able to capture the human spirit in his award-winning show with just a smartphone, tripod and mic

Variety:

A look at how debt is shaping the industry as media giants amass large amounts of debt to build streaming platforms in an effort to better compete with Netflix — Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman-CEO, summoned all of his folksy Oklahoma earnestness as he made an enthusiastic pitch …

Discussion: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw

Victor Luckerson / The Ringer:

Musicians call for changes to Spotify's royalty payout model to tie royalties to the number of users who listen to their music, a shift Deezer is making in 2019 — Fans may assume the $10 they pay for a monthly streaming subscription goes to the artists they listen to most. That's not the case.

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Les Moonves will pursue an arbitration claim to fight CBS for the $120M severance he was denied after the board determined he was fired for cause — Former CBS Corp. chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves will pursue an arbitration claim to fight CBS for the $120 million severance that he was denied …

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Janko Roettgers / Variety:

NPR has turned its news quiz, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, into a five-minute game for smart speakers that use Google Assistant or Amazon's Alexa — NPR has turned its popular “Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!” news quiz show into an interactive game for smart speakers: Owners of speakers powered …

Discussion: Ad Age, SlashGear, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Michael Schneider / Variety:

Viceland will launch Vice Live, a two-hour show at 9pm ET Monday-Thursday that recaps the day in pop culture and social media, starting February 25 — F-k it, Viceland is doing it live. The cable network will revamp its primetime lineup next month to launch a nightly two-hour live show …

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