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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally — - The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix will test Top 10 lists of popular shows in the UK, shares data for first month of some shows: The Umbrella Academy, 45M; Triple Frontier, 52M; FYRE, 20M — Ben Affleck-starring ‘Triple Frontier’ Has Been Watched by 52M Households in 4 Weeks — Netflix is getting ready to reveal …
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Recode, Business Insider, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, IndieWire and @jank0
Lydia Polgreen / HuffPost:
HuffPost is launching a membership program, HuffPost Plus, with tiers from free to premium, offering access to members-only newsletters and other features — From voting rights to self-care, HuffPost's stories put people before power. Support the mission by becoming a member.
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@lpolgreen, @jbenton, MediaPost, @ryanjreilly, @paigelav, @mepfuller and @akbarsahmed
Wired:
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: James Murdoch wants to use some of his proceeds from the sale of 21st Century Fox to invest in comic book publisher Artists, Writers and Artisans — Former chief of 21st Century Fox is beginning to invest some of the $2.2 billion he made from the sale of the company's major entertainment properties
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Financial Times and @benmullin
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Source: the Financial Times is no longer available on British Airways flights following critical coverage of the airline in the paper — British Airways has stopped offering the Financial Times to passengers in response to negative stories about it in the paper, a source at the business title has told Press Gazette.
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Talking Biz News and @billneelynbc
Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire — A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and, as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As The New York Times launches a 5G Journalism Lab to explore storytelling possibilities, a look at how speedier mobile networks could boost newsrooms — If there's one thing you can count on in modern life, one truism that will never let you down, it is this: You want more Gs.
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@hannahsbirch, @niemanlab, @jbenton and @thebeenster
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media acquires Epic Magazine, which has a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox and 40+ projects in production, says Epic will remain independent — With the purchase of the producer behind Apple's ‘Little America,’ Vox Media is reorganizing its entertainment teams under a new studios division led by Marty Moe.
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Nieman Lab, @laurenrabaino, @laurenrabaino, @voxmediainc and Vox Media
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Reuters:
Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads …
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The Economic Times, VentureBeat, The Verge and @willoremus, more at Techmeme »
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources say that Facebook Watch, like YouTube, will accept content from anyone; Facebook confirms it will convert Watch show pages into broader video pages — Facebook Watch's transformation from a video section reserved exclusively for professionally made, episodic shows to videos of all kinds …
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Newspapers with subscription-based models need to stop trying to “lock” their customers into contracts, adopting best practices from Amazon and Netflix instead — The internet for news is closing. In the wake of the global failure for digital advertising, publishers are putting their hopes in subscriptions.
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
In an open letter, Schibsted follows Spotify's lead, says Apple is abusing its position as the dominant player in the app market — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted is the latest publisher to back Spotify's allegations that Apple is abusing its stance as the most dominant player in the app market.
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VentureBeat
Ren LaForme / Poynter:
A list of winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes, including Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, the NYT, WSJ, and others — This post will be updated as the awards are announced. — The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday.
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
The Capital Gazette received a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee for its coverage of its own newsroom shooting in which five colleagues died
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The Wrap, Adweek, Sun-Sentinel, @joyannreid and Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category for stories on Trump's hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
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