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3:55 PM ET, January 18, 2019

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BuzzFeed UK Editor-in-Chief Janine Gibson is leaving at the end of January after more than three years as its head  —  Buzzfeed UK editor-in-chief Janine Gibson has announced she is leaving the news website after more than three years in the top job.  —  Gibson will leave at the end of January …
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.
Kali Hays / WWD:
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
AT&T to resume advertising on YouTube after pulling the ads in 2017 because the brand was appearing alongside the offensive videos  —  AT&T, one of the nation's biggest marketers, yanked its advertising dollars from YouTube in 2017 because the brand was appearing alongside offensive videos.
Media Matters for America:
Media Matters study: in 2018, less than 6% of episodes on the five major Sunday morning news shows had segments about climate change, a 13% fall YoY  —  Less than 6 percent of episodes of the five major Sunday morning news shows in 2018 featured any substantial mentions or discussions of climate change …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Irish publisher Independent News and Media, owner of the Irish Independent and the Belfast Telegraph, expects to cut 30 jobs as circulation and ad revenue fall  —  Thirty jobs are at risk after a major Irish news publisher outlined a three-year strategic plan aimed at growing digital revenues …
Discussion: Independent.ie
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
News UK has asked the culture secretary to remove some legal guarantees to allow the Times and Sunday Times to share content and staff in a cost savings bid  —  Murdoch publisher wants to remove guarantees to allow it to share content and staff  —  Rupert Murdoch's News UK has asked …
Discussion: Press Gazette
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Source: congressional panel plans to probe whether the White House improperly influenced merger oversight, including AT&T's deal for Time Warner, which owns CNN  —  - House antitrust panel to examine White House role in mergers  — Chairman also plans to examine cost of prescription drugs
Discussion: @hadas_gold and @tednesi
 
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BBC Asian Network editor Arif Ansari found not guilty over his role in the broadcast of the name of a sexual assault victim
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
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
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
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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
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
Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook:
Facebook takes down 315 Pages, 152 accounts, 4 Groups, and 41 Instagram accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia
Brian Stelter / CNN:
New York Media announces that David Haskell will succeed Adam Moss as editor-in-chief, starting April 1; Haskell has been editor for business and strategy
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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