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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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@orskov, @ifortknox, @alexburnsnyt, @richbtig, @melissa_stasiuk, @jacknicas, @urvaksh, @davewiner, @edmundlee, @michellemanafy, @nycjim, @kenli729, @reutersus, CNET and 9to5Mac
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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Nieman Lab, @mathewi, @mollydeaguiar, @davewiner, @cjr, @janebsinger, @mathewi, @mathewi and @davewiner
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Parties named in Atlantic's story saying Sirota secretly advised Sanders campaign while critiquing other candidates in the media, deny key claims of the story — The Atlantic on Tuesday published a sensationalistic series of accusations by reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere aimed at long …
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@walkerbragman, @theintercept, @theintercept, @benspielberg and The Atlantic
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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@cwarzel, @stephaniecarvin, @oliverdarcy, @alexhern, @clarajeffery, @jimswiftdc, @oliverdarcy and @oliverdarcy, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A profile of Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest Murdoch son overseeing “new” Fox, who is politically conservative but is still feared in some corners of Fox News — LOS ANGELES — President Trump has never called Lachlan Murdoch. — The 47-year-old media scion …
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@talktomeforreal, @1gamenut and @mattgertz
Alicia Cormie / The Keyword:
Interview with Olivia Ma, the director and co-founder of Google News Labs, on the one-year anniversary of the Google News Initiative — Truthfulness and objectivity were important values in my household. My parents taught us to always approach thorny issues with an unfiltered lens …
Mr. Magazine:
Q&A with Will Welch, the new EIC of GQ, about his vision for the magazine, the relevance of a men's fashion magazine in the age of social media, and more — There's a new era at GQ and the man running the epoch is Will Welch. The dynamic, newly refreshed generation of the magazine …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The New Humanitarian, a relaunch of IRIN News covering humanitarian crises, which now has ~170K unique visitors/month and 40K+ newsletter subscribers — “It's one thing to have been an internal information center for an international NGO. It's another thing to become a full newsroom …
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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@rsjnow and @macphersona
Mark Gardiner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter Mark Gardiner describes how a story he wrote in 2003, about a motorcyclist who saved lives in a tunnel fire in France, turned out to be a myth — In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece.
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@cjr, @spj_tweets and @ravisomaiya
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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@brianstelter and New York Times
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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@tylerperry, Deadline, @richbtig, @lucas_shaw, Barron's Online, Axios and MediaPost
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