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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: CNN head Jeff Zucker expected to expand his portfolio to lead AT&T's Turner Sports as part of AT&T's restructuring of WarnerMedia — Jeff Zucker, the leader of cable-news outlet CNN, is about to add sports to his portfolio, giving him expanded oversight of more of the most valuable content …
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Wall Street Journal, Sports Media Watch, @brianstelter, @awallenstein, The Wrap and Awful Announcing
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Plepler and Levy's exits indicate that AT&T plans to combine HBO and Turner into one entity, contrary to previous comments, which will be run by Bob Greenblatt — HBO's famous boss is going because the TV business is changing. Warner Bros.' boss is staying because the movies aren't going anywhere.
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@profgalloway, Los Angeles Times, @jadande, The Guardian, Business Insider and The Wrap
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Turner Broadcasting President David Levy confirms he is leaving WarnerMedia in about two months
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Ad Age, CNN, Mediaite, @brianstelter, Business Insider, Ad Age, @bristei, @richarddeitsch and Sports Media Watch
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: HBO CEO and Chairman Richard Plepler tells staff he is leaving the company, nine months after AT&T's acquisition of HBO parent Time Warner
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Caysey Welton / Folio:
Dennis Publishing, the UK-based owner of The Week, has acquired 99-year-old Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc.; Kiplinger's COO will become its CEO — Dennis Publishing, the U.K.-based owner of The Week, has acquired 99-year-old Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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Adweek and New York Post
Tom Jones / Poynter:
A look back at The Rocky Mountain News, the Pulitzer-winning paper that closed 10 years ago, and how Denver fell from having 500+ journalists to fewer than 80 — Early in 2008, John Temple was excited about the 150th anniversary of his newspaper. The publisher, president and editor …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Hulu's live online TV service has about 2M subscribers while YouTube TV has crossed 1M — - Analyst says their services shine versus Sling, DirecTV Now — Slicker, modern-looking interfaces give upstarts a leg up — Hulu and YouTube together have signed about 3 million subscribers …
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The Wrap, Business Insider, Fortune, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac and 9to5Google
BuzzFeed News:
Fact-checkers in India, including Facebook's fact-checking partners, say they have faced a deluge of misinformation on the tensions between India and Pakistan — “There's politics, religion, enemy nations, and a surge of nationalism in this situation. It's the perfect storm."
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@sivavaid, @pranavdixit and @amy_keegan, more at Techmeme »
Molly Langmuir / ELLE:
Profile of New Yorker's Jane Mayer, one of the most prominent investigative reporters in the US, who most recently broke the Kavanaugh accusations story — It's a few weeks after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and — , one of the most prominent investigative reporters in the country …
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@ellemagazine, @thomas_drake1, @stevekolowich, @grybowski, @amyxwang and Poynter
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:
Amazon removes at least three anti-vaccination documentaries from Prime Video hours after Rep. Schiff sent letter to Bezos regarding anti-vaccine misinformation — Amazon appears to have removed anti-vaccination documentaries from search results on Amazon Prime Video today …
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Business Insider, schiff.house.gov, The Hill, @peterhotez, @ceodonovan, @ceodonovan, Gizmodo, CNBC, FOX2now.com, Variety, The Hill, Engadget and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Profile of sports news site Deadspin, which claims 14M monthly visitors on average in 2018, up 18% YoY, as it has evolved into a progressive voice in sports — Megan Greenwell, editor in chief of the website Deadspin, stood in front of a giant projection screen one night late last year …
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@dcwoodruff and @robert_hiltz
Amber A'Lee Frost / Columbia Journalism Review:
A socialist makes a case for reading Financial Times rather than The New York Times, because FT focuses on the world as it is: a battle of economic interests — Every morning that I'm not hungover, I wake up around 8am, because that is when my two cats start howling for breakfast.
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@im_pulse and @emilybell
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Judge throws out defamation suit against NYT by a professor known for defending genetically modified food, citing “fair report” privilege and public records law — A University of Florida horticulture professor known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods lost …
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@ericliptonnyt, @adamliptak, @careygillam, @gmwatch, @careygillam, @morisy, @ericliptonnyt, @kevinfolta and @cynthiabarnett
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / Vanity Fair:
Inside Facebook's content policy team, which is made up of several dozen Facebook engineers, lawyers, and PR people who decide what users can post — The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebook's shadow government.
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@lilianedwards, @antoniogm, @fuchsmariechen, @pt, @antoniogm, @ibogost, @antoniogm, @xixidu, @chronotope and Hmm Daily
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