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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Vice News correspondent says former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson included plagiarized passages in chapters about Vice in her book, Merchants of Truth — Vice News Tonight correspondent Michael Moynihan is calling out former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson out for what he says are …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
For Spotify to succeed as a podcast app, it needs to clearly separate podcasts from music, help users discover podcasts better, and allow creators to monetize — Some suggestions for improvement — Spotify announced today that the company plans to spend up to $500 million on podcast-related acquisitions.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify buys podcast producer Gimlet Media, sources say for ~$230M, and Anchor, a startup which makes it easier for users to record and distribute podcasts
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google experiment finds 45% traffic decline to news sites with search results without snippets, in a moderate version of what is proposed in EU's Article 11 — In the next few days, European legislators meet to decide on a final text of the European Copyright Directive.
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Julia Reda, ZDNet, Search Engine Land and 9to5Google
Angela Moon / Reuters:
Twitter Q4 beats expectations with revenue of $909M, up 24% YoY, a net income of $244M, and ad revenue up 23% YoY to $791M, but misses on MAUs with 321M — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter Inc forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates and reported a drop in users for the fourth quarter …
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David Cohen / Adweek:
MediaRadar estimates 1,400+ companies ran Snapchat ads in 2018, way below other social platforms; source says estimate is too low given formats like AR lenses — MediaRadar said over 1,400 companies ran ads on the platform in 2018 — More than 1,400 companies advertised on Snapchat during 2018 …
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Mobile Marketer and MediaPost
New York Times Company:
In Q4, The New York Times added 265K digital subscriptions, bringing total number of digital subs to 3.4M but profit decreased to $74.7M from $90.5M a year ago — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today fourth-quarter 2018 diluted earnings per share …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Insider Inc says it achieved profitability in 2018 with revenue up 20% YoY and exceeded $100M in revenue for the first time — Times may be tough in digital publishing right now, but Business Insider parent company Insider says it just had its best revenue year ever.
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Owens is named executive producer of 60 Minutes, replacing Jeff Fager, who was ousted in September after sending a threatening text to a CBS correspondent — Owens becomes only the third person to lead the 51-year-old broadcast. — Bill Owens has been tapped to replace Jeff Fager as the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
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Neil Brown / Poynter:
Poynter SVP Kelly McBride will lead the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, which will serve as a clearinghouse for best practices — We live in the age of the misinformation superhighway. The pile-ups that happen there no longer revolve around the inside baseball of running newsrooms …
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American Press Institute, @kellymcb and Fortune
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
State of the Union ratings: 46.8M viewers watched Trump's address, up about 3% over 2018; Fox News led with 11.1M viewers, down slightly from 11.5M last year — The president's address to Congress is up by about 10 percent versus 2018 in preliminary figures.
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Leonie Kijewski / The Guardian:
Philippines DOJ indicts Rappler, Maria Ressa, and an ex-Rappler journalist for cyber libel over a 2012 story published months before the law was passed — Amnesty and Reporters Without Borders condemn prosecution of news website, editor Maria Ressa and staff
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RAPPLER and Reporters Without Borders
Tim Hornyak / Nieman Lab:
Tokyo-based Nordot, a content-sharing platform that connects producers and distributors, has launched an English language version of its site — “It's inefficient for publishers to try to do everything themselves. Meanwhile, they have to try to compete with massive, powerful news distributors like Google and Yahoo.
Melissa Locker / Fast Company:
Vox Media's General Manager Andrew Golis is leaving the company to join New York-based radio station WNYC as chief content officer — New York Public Radio announced today that long-time digital media executive Andrew Golis has a new job as WNYC's chief content officer.
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