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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
News Corp to sell Unruly, the video advertising platform it acquired for around £115M in 2015, to the ad tech company Tremor International — Rebekah Brooks will join the board of Tremor International as part of News Corp's deal to offload Unruly, Sky News learns. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSky
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The Drum, The Drum, Talking Biz News, @paul_framp, MarTech Today, @simonjharris, @markkleinmansky, @shonaghosh, @andyoakes, Reuters, @mjbarash and Mumbrella
The Guardian:
Key figures from US media, including Dean Baquet, Ben Smith, Jorge Ramos, and Margaret Sullivan, describe their fears and ideas for covering the 2020 election — Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year's election - and ideas on how to get it right
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Columbia Journalism Review, @sulliview, @ewaldeng, @froomkin, @asteadwesley, @sykescharlie, @oliverdarcy, @owillis, @oliverdarcy, @baseballcrank and @brianstelter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Vice UK had revenues of £17.3M in 2018, down from £25.7M in 2017, with losses of £3.9M, up 75% YoY; Vice UK blames Brexit uncertainty for the growth of losses — Pre-tax losses at millennial media brand Vice UK have grown by 75 per cent in 2018, according to the company's latest full-year financial figures.
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Sports Illustrated staff say they plan to unionize with NewsGuild, raising concerns about direction under Maven; organizers say 90%+ of staff signed petition — The staff of Sports Illustrated plans to unionize, it told management on Monday, saying it wants a greater say in the future …
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The NewsGuild - CWA, @si_union, @si_union, @maggiomatt and @jennyvrentas
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Amazon expands Fire TV Edition to soundbars, car infotainment systems, set-top boxes, and more, and says Fire TV platform now has over 40M MAUs — It was only a few months ago that Amazon took the wraps off over 20 new Fire TV devices to fill out its growing portfolio, including a refreshed Fire TV Cube …
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TechCrunch and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Schneps Media, which recently purchased Metro New York and amNew York, to merge both of NYC's free papers under the new name amNewYork Metro starting January 6 — Fifteen-year-old Metro New York, one of the city's two freebie daily papers, will disappear following the sale of assets to Schneps Media …
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review and New York Times
Lex / Financial Times:
Bloomberg Media says 15% of all news revenues come from live events, up from less than 1% in 2014, mainly due to the New Economy Forum aimed at Chinese elite — As the US wages trade war with China, the media company of presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is making most of its conference revenues …
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@andreaslandwehr, @mattgarrahan and @annaknicolaou
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK Tax Tribunal rules that The Times' digital subscription revenue is VAT-exempt because, like newspapers, it's rarely updated; HMRC is considering an appeal — Rupert Murdoch's firm satisfies tax tribunal that subscriptions should be zero-rated — Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group …
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@kadhim
The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's Columbus Dispatch to close its production facility, affecting 188 jobs in Columbus, and move production across state lines to Indianapolis — Alan D. Miller, executive editor and interim general manager of the Dispatch Media Group, said the Dispatch news and advertising teams remain deeply committed …
NBC News:
Los Angeles District Attorney says Harvey Weinstein has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents in 2013 — The charges come on the eve of jury selection in a criminal trial against Weinstein in New York, where he has been charged with felony sexual assault.
Discussion:
Vanity Fair, BBC, @jodikantor and The Daily Beast
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Profile of The Righting, an aggregator of right-wing news founded after Trump's victory to alert liberals to stories shaping opinion outside their bubble — Howard Polskin woke up the day after President Trump's election with a powerful feeling that he had missed something important.
Discussion:
@ron_myers and @editrixjen
VentureBeat:
Report: TV advertising spend in 2019 by Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft shows them spending most during sports, especially NFL broadcasts — With 2019 finally over, we're taking a look at how some major tech brands — Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft …
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out changes following FTC settlement: videos targeting kids cannot run targeted ads and they lose access to community features such as comments — ‘These changes will have significant impact’ — YouTube executives have warned creators over the last few months that changes …
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Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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