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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Netflix's absence from Apple's media bundle portends a fight in content distribution; Goldman Sachs says the bundle could add $12B+ to Apple's 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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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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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
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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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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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Angela Long / JSource:
Profile of Daniel Bushman, reporter and owner of the Watrous Manitou, a Saskatchewan newspaper he bought five years ago: “I don't regret purchasing the paper” — Why a 24-year old gives up city life for a job at his local paper and then, five years later, buys it
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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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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
An AT&T-Viacom dispute could mean Viacom's networks, including MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, and BET, go dark after midnight Friday on DirecTV, U-Verse, and WatchTV — Viacom Inc. is locked in a high-stakes showdown with AT&T as the telecommunications giant weighs whether to drop Viacom's cable networks …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rosemary Feitelberg / WWD:
John Homans has been named editor of Vanity Fair's media, technology, and business vertical The Hive — Telling stories in one voice, repurposing online content for the magazine and “figuring out how the two can work together” are among the editor's priorities.
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