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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook offered millions to ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post, and Bloomberg to license their content for a Facebook news section to debut in 2019 — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
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New York Post:
New Media Investment Group's shares fell ~33% between Monday and Wednesday, after the cash and stock acquisition of Gannett was announced, endangering the deal — A $1.4 billion deal to buy USA Today owner Gannett Co. has been so poorly received since it was announced on Monday that executives …
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS says it is accelerating its rollout of streaming news service CBSN Local to remaining 11 markets by early 2020, ahead of political primaries and elections — Accelerated rollout means local streaming news products in place before primaries — CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive …
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investors.lionsgate.com, The Wrap, Variety and The Streamable
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS reports Q2 net earnings of $440M, up 10% YoY, on revenues of $3.81B, up 10% YoY, and operating income of $695M, says its streaming subscribers grew 75% YoY — CBS Corp. delivered strong second quarter earnings on Thursday, posting top and bottom line growth as the company prepares …
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CBS Corporation Events and Reuters
Trevor Timm / The Intercept:
A Brazil Supreme Court minister bars the Bolsonaro administration from investigating The Intercept Brasil and Glenn Greenwald for their reporting — In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, Minister Gilmar Mendes, a member of Brazil's Supreme Court, has barred the Bolsonaro administration …
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@trevortimm and @freedomofpress
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Court docs show Monsanto ran a “fusion center” that monitored a Reuters journalist and encouraged negative reviews of her 2017 book on its Roundup weedkiller — Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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@dangillmor, @janeferguson5, @kimseverson, @careygillam, @peterhimler, @davidlwindt, @colinlecher, @gmwatch and Boing Boing
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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The Keyword, Fast Company, TechCrunch, @zkahn, @dzohrob, @mrpaulbae and @ashleyrcarman, more at Techmeme »
Dave McNary / Variety:
Lionsgate reports Q1 revenue of $963.6M and operating income of $67.3M, beating estimates, amid growth in Starz subscribers to 26.5M, up 2.6M YoY — Lionsgate has posted revenues and operating income above Wall Street projections for its first fiscal quarter of 2019, amid growth …
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The Wrap
Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
How Hacker News moderators Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell practice a personal and slow approach, engaging with users in e-mail chains that can last for years — Can a human touch make Silicon Valley's biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place? — Open-plan offices offer few pleasures …
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@willoremus, @garrytan, @cwarzel and @gustaf, more at Techmeme »
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
CBS All Access will add children's programming, including more than 1,000 episodes from its library and new original series, will begin rollout this year — Original series include ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ and new ‘Danger Mouse’ — CBS All Access is bringing children's programming …
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The Streamable and The Streamable
News Corp:
News Corp. posts full year revenue of $10.07B, up 12% YoY, net income of $228M vs. 2018's $1.44B loss, says WSJ digital subs reached 2.6M, 69% of total subs — Fiscal 2019 Full Year Key Financial Highlights — Revenues were $10.07 billion, a 12% increase compared to $9.02 billion in the prior year …
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Australian Financial Review, Channel News, AdNews, The Times & The Sunday Times and Mumbrella
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The council of the London borough of Hackney loses a years-long fight to keep printing a free fortnightly paper, as other private newspapers cover the same area — A London council has lost a final appeal to continue publishing its freesheet on a fortnightly basis in rivalry with two local newspapers.
Discussion:
Hackney Citizen and @allytibbitt
Al Jazeera:
Journalists in Kashmir struggle to report due to a communications blackout; most English and Urdu language papers in Srinagar have not published since Monday — Reporters in the disputed region face difficulties due to ban on movement and communications blackout.
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@sonakshaiyengar, @zahidgishkori, @cpjasia, @imtiazalamsafma, @hasanpatel, NPR and Business Insider
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