Mediagazer: Sources: Amazon is beta testing video ads on its shopping app on iOS with plans for a similar product for Android later in 2019 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

9:15 AM ET, March 22, 2019

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NYT CEO says third-party distribution deals lead to loss of product control, compares news outlets that partner with Apple to studios that helped Netflix grow — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc is expected to launch an ambitious new entertainment and paid digital news service on Monday …

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …

Discussion: @stroughtonsmith, @markgurman, MacRumors and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, where Apple will set and offer its own bundles — Apple's TV plans, explained. (Spoiler: Apple isn't taking on Netflix yet.) — After years of circling the TV business …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

Fox's Jeanine Pirro to be off the air for a second week; a source says she was suspended for two weeks and that she will return on March 30 — New York (CNN Business)Jeanine Pirro's weekend show on Fox News, “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” will be pre-empted for a second straight week, according to the network's schedule.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Interview with former News Corp SVP Joseph Azam, who says he quit in 2017 over the Murdoch approach to Muslims, immigrants, and race at Fox and other outlets

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services — Comcast's latest bundle isn't a cable TV service, exactly, since it's aimed at the increasing number of subscribers who only have internet.

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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Sources: expected layoffs begin after the close of the Disney-Fox deal, with about two dozen senior-level executives at 20th Century Fox affected so far — Anticipated layoffs have begun at Fox, following the storied studio's sale to Walt Disney Co. earlier this week.

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Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing:

Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%, while mobile time-spent in the US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.

Discussion: American Press Institute and Nielsen, more at Techmeme »

Vikas SN / The Economic Times:

Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country — In October last year, Netflix chief product officer Greg Peters had said that they will experiment with their pricing models to grow …

Discussion: BGR, MediaNama, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, Engadget and FierceVideo

Dade Hayes / Deadline:

Study: of all Netflix releases in the US in 2018, 51% were originals, more than double the 25% reported in 2016 — Illustrating the strategy Netflix executives have long articulated — and pointing to a wider gap between the company and its rivals — a new report shows that for the first …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, @ampereanalysis, @indust_scripts, @lucas_shaw and The A.V. Club

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

A reporter for a pro-life media organization says he was forced to resign after criticizing a far-right activist who was “verbally tormenting” a CNN reporter — Zachary Petrizzo, a writer for the pro-life media organization Live Action, says he was forced to resign after he tweeted …

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Almost 8 out of 10 GOP voters who watch Fox News believe Trump is the best President in US history, as the network presents an “alternative reality” — A new survey of the network's watchers reveal the hard core of the Republican Party and how hopeless it is for Democrats to try and court them.

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PolitiFact:

Politifact is partnering with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish for the network's 2020 election coverage — PolitiFact will partner with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish ahead of the 2020 presidential election. — PolitiFact is a fact-checking website owned …

David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:

Google DNI grants €500K to publishers Reach and JPIMedia for a local audio news platform and €398K to Newsquest for a community news sharing tool — Two regional publishers have won half a million Euros worth of funding for a joint project aimed at improving their audio output.

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Andrew Liptak / The Verge:
MPAA: streaming video subscriptions surpassed those for cable TV for the first time in 2018 globally, rising 131.2M or 27% YoY to 613.3M, as cable fell to 556M

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Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Bustle names Dan Peres as editor in chief of Gawker.com; Peres was editor in chief of Condé Nast's men's fashion magazine Details for 15 years

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Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon is beta testing video ads on its shopping app on iOS with plans for a similar product for Android later in 2019

Discussion: Street Fight, BGR, @rasmus_kleis, Search Engine Land and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Former Recode EIC Dan Frommer launches The New Consumer, covering e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands with a twice-a-week newsletter, for $200/year

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Michelle Castillo / Cheddar:
Sources: Netflix is upping its “marketing partnership” efforts, which include licensing characters and doing product placements in its shows

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Facebook:
The NZ shooting video was harder to block on Facebook than official terrorist propaganda videos because the latter aren't rebroadcast or reshared widely

James Vincent / The Verge:
Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches two new fact-checking tools for journalists and says 50 partners are working with Subscribe With Google, including The Washington Post and FT

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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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