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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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Turner Broadcasting President David Levy confirms he is leaving WarnerMedia in about two months
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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
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@profgalloway, Los Angeles Times, @jadande, The Guardian and Business Insider
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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Anne Thompson / IndieWire:
With reports that Spielberg will urge the Academy to block streaming services like Netflix from Oscars, some fear indie movies can end up as collateral damage — Post “Roma,” the Academy will discuss rules that would level the playing field — but adjusting for Netflix could affect indie titles as well.
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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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Alpha, a niche streaming service focusing on TV, pop-culture, sci-fi, comics, video games, and more is shutting down on Mar. 31 — Another overly niche streaming service is closing up shop. On Friday, Alpha - a geek-friendly streaming service that focused on TV, pop-culture, sci-fi …
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Andrew McCormick / The Atlantic:
How Radio Free Asia's Uighur journalists based in Washington are painstakingly reporting on China's internment of hundreds of thousands of the country's Muslims — Radio Free Asia's Uighur journalists report on China's internment of hundreds of thousands of members of the country's Muslim minority …
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Washington Post
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
Lara Takenaga / New York Times:
Fifty years after the publication of A Day in the Life of the New York Times, a chronicle of 24 hours at the paper in 2019 starting at 3 AM ET in Hong Kong — The book “A Day in the Life of The New York Times” chronicled 24 hours at the Gray Lady 50 years ago.
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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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@thomas_drake1, @stevekolowich, @ellemagazine, @grybowski, @amyxwang and Poynter
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 »
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
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 …
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