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Reuters:
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 …
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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
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Sources: some pundits who appear regularly on Fox News “opinion” shows, including Sara Carter, are banned from appearing on the network's news programming — Tucker Carlson was in Florida by the time Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group, published the first batch …
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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
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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%; media time spent on mobile in 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.
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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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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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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 …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
How the American Journalism Project, which raised $42M to help local news, is choosing which sites get grants: quality work, credibility, public purpose, more — No pushing in line, please. Having raised $42 million in just six months, the American Journalism Project …
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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 …
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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 …
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BGR, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, MediaNama, Engadget and FierceVideo
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.
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 …
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