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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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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
The absence of Netflix from Apple's media bundle indicates a fight over content distribution; Goldman Sachs says Apple could add $12B+ to its services business — The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war. “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, @shiraovide, @edmundlee, Fortune and CNET
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
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BGR, MediaNama, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, Engadget and FierceVideo
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially
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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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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Skepticism about Facebook's intentions was widespread among startups and nonprofits at the Local Media Summit, sponsored by Facebook, Knight Foundation, and ONA — This week, journalists from dozens of small startups and non-profits joined funders and journalism academics at a small …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
With advertisers fleeing Tucker Carlson's show, 34.8% of its ads since March 10 have been in-house and promoted Fox programming — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ besieged by social media backlash, increasingly is filling commercial breaks with in-house ads and direct-response brand spots.
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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
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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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American Press Institute and @raju
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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TechCrunch:
MoviePass CEO Ted Farnsworth said around 20% of the company's subscriber base abused the service by sharing their pass with others, among other things — Ted Farnsworth discusses Helios and Matheson's work to turn around the troubled service — Two days after MoviePass announced the return …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney employees say the company has not been forthcoming about layoffs, with some sources saying around 3,000 employees will be affected — Multiple employees say that Disney has been less than forthcoming about who will be let go and when. — At Walt Disney's shareholder meeting two weeks ago …
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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
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Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter:
Multichannel network StyleHaul, sold in 2017 to German conglomerate RTL Group, is closing its US office and moving management of influencers and talent to EU — Layoffs are coming to StyleHaul, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, who tell Tubefilter …
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Variety and @media_evan
Tom Scocca / Hmm Daily:
The Friday afternoon news dump of bad news has become the expected Friday afternoon news release, perhaps an adaptation to constantly escalating news cycles — Speaking—as we always are now—of the corruption of our political and institutional norms, when did the Friday news dump become the Friday news release?
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New York Times
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
AT&T's anime-focused Crunchyroll is raising the subscription price for its video service from $6.95 to $7.99/month, effective May 1 for new subscribers — AT&T-owned anime subscription video service Crunchyroll is raising its monthly subscription price from $6.95 to $7.99 a month, it announced in an email to members Friday.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: compensation for David Zaslav, Discovery's CEO and president, jumped 306% in 2018 to $129.4M, compared with $42.2M in 2017, driven by option awards — The cable group boss, who merged his company with Scripps Networks Interactive, made $42.2 million in 2017.
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