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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 — It's the end of an era. — One of the most storied runs in TV is coming to an end. Richard Plepler is leaving HBO after 27 years with the cable giant …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Turner Broadcasting President David Levy confirms he is leaving WarnerMedia in about two months — David Levy is getting ready for what is likely to be his last insider's view of the NCAA Final Four. — In 2010, Levy was one of the principals in a surprising sports deal that brought …
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Business Insider, Sports Media Watch, @richarddeitsch and Awful Announcing
James Walker / Press Gazette:
EU commissioners say Facebook's, Google's, and Twitter's reports on their fight against disinformation don't give enough information on their results — European Union commissioners have accused three tech giants of providing “too little information” in reports on their efforts …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
LinkedIn will launch a weekly podcast, Hello Monday, on March 4, hosted by Jessi Hempel, formerly a senior writer at Wired — The show will be hosted by LinkedIn senior editor-at-large Jessi Hempel, and each episode will feature an interview with someone who has found success in their field.
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Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
Jem Aswad / Variety:
RIAA: US revenue for recorded music grew 12% in 2018 to $9.8B largely due to a 30% surge in streaming revenue; subscriptions to services like Spotify topped 50M — The U.S. music industry posted its third consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the RIAA's year-end revenue report issued today.
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CNET, Billboard, Recode, Music Business Worldwide, Engadget, @jank0, MacRumors, RIAA and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter says in the coming months it will test a Hide Tweet feature that allows users to hide replies to their tweets that others can view through a menu option — Twitter today confirmed it's developing a new “Hide Tweet” feature, which it says will give users another option to protect their conversations.
Times Higher Education:
Times Higher Education has been sold to private equity firm Inflexion; partner publication Tes has been sold to private equity firm Providence Equity Partners — Inflexion acquires company from TPG Capital — Times Higher Education has been sold to private equity firm Inflexion, becoming a stand-alone business for the first time.
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@lizmorrish
Samantha Conti / WWD:
Holly Shackleton has been named editor-in-chief of Vogue International, replacing Justine Bellavita — Shackleton will join Vogue International in April from i-D magazine, where she is currently global editor in chief. — ESSENTIALIST — TODAY'S MUST READ — LATEST GALLERIES
Calum Muirhead / Proactiveinvestors United …:
Media group Future, owner of Tom's Hardware, Techradar, and others, acquires Mobile Nations, which owns Android Central, Windows Central, and others, for $120M — The media group it would pay US$55mln in cash and US$5mln in shares for Mobile Nations, adding that there was also a deferred payment …
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@rafat and @backlon, Thanks:@desireathow
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK charities declare the Momo challenge a hoax after the media publishes hundreds of articles on it, causing a moral panic despite absence of evidence — Groups say no evidence yet of self-harm from craze, but resulting hysteria poses a risk — It is the most talked about viral scare story …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
NYT is testing a feature that bars use of incognito mode to circumvent its paywall as Google is working on code to prevent sites from detecting incognito mode — As long as The New York Times has had a metered paywall — it's coming up on eight years! — people have been trying to sneak around it.
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MediaPost, Softpedia News and @jbenton
Alex Feerst / OneZero:
Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day work, how the job has affected them personally, and more — Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium's head of trust and safety.
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