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8:10 AM ET, February 5, 2019

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15 influencers, including Jonah Peretti, Ro Khanna, Brooke Binkowski, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Warner, and Kara Swisher, weigh in on Facebook on its 15th birthday  —  15 influencers weigh in on the company's 15th birthday.  —  When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard in 2017 …
Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
The Washington Post's spend on its Super Bowl ad, reportedly $5.2M, has provoked anger in some quarters, including the Washington-Baltimore News Guild  —  Many are having issues with how much it cost, saying that money could go toward paying journalists.  —  The Washington Post aired …
Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
Speaking at the Television Critics Association's winter gathering, FX CEO criticises Netflix for “not telling you the whole story” about its viewership figures  —  Is You really the smash that Netflix says it is?  What about Sex Education?  Its most public scold says don't believe the hype.
Philana Patterson / USA Today:
Gannett says its board has unanimously rejected an acquisition offer from Digital First Media, saying that the offer is not credible and undervalues the company  —  Gannett Co. said Monday that its board has unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal to be acquired by media company MNG Enterprises Inc. …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Montana Democrats introduce a “Protect The Free Press Act”, which would increase fine for assaulting a journalist from $500 to $5000, with up to a year in jail  —  HELENA, Mont. — Democrats in the Montana state legislature put forward a bill Monday that would increase the penalty …
Stewart Clarke / Variety:
Viacom has launched MTV Play, a streaming app for music channel MTV, in the UK targeted at younger viewers and cordcutters; it is priced at £3.99 a month  —  Viacom is going direct-to-consumer, launching an MTV Play app in the U.K. It marks the first time that Viacom …
Discussion: Digiday and The Verge
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Detroit journalist Bill McGraw was fired from his role as an editor of The Dearborn Historian, a city-funded quarterly, for covering Henry Ford's anti-semitism  —  One hundred years ago, Henry Ford bought a newspaper in Dearborn, Michigan, and used it to publish an anti-Semitic 91-part series called “The International Jew.”
Discussion: @andreapitzer and Joel On The Road
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop signs deal for docuseries with Netflix and a podcast distribution deal with Delta Airlines, while pausing its quarterly mag  —  - Hollywood PR Trio Launches Reputation-Management Cyber Firm to Vet Celebrities, Corporate Giants  —  Goop, the lifestyle …
Kevin Draper / New York Times:
CBS says 98.2M people watched the Super Bowl, the smallest television audience for the event since 2008, while 2.6M viewed via streaming  —  It was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever, a universally agreed upon snoozefest.  The halftime show was forgettable.  The commercials were tame.
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
National Geographic acquires global rights to environmental documentary Sea of Shadows, in deal believed to be the biggest non-fiction acquisition at Sundance  —  The purchase is believed to be the biggest nonfiction acquisition from the 2019 edition of the festival.
Discussion: @tatianasiegel27
 
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With HBO's programming slate growing and streaming competition heating up, HBO will shift some original scripted series to Monday nights starting in May
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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