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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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Rush Limbaugh renews his radio show contract with iHeartMedia; President Trump said at a rally it is a four-year deal — New York (CNN Business)"The Rush Limbaugh Show" will continue well into the new decade. — Limbaugh, whose contract was due to expire later this year, has renewed his deal …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The Fox News “cabinet”, which seemingly shapes US policy, has given virtually unvarnished praise for the Suleimani strike, with the exception of Tucker Carlson — If President Donald Trump tuned in to Fox News after ordering Thursday night's successful U.S. operation to kill …
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Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Iranian ambassador to UK to complain formally about a frontpage article in the Times claiming Iran is prepared to kill UK troops over Suleimani's assassination — Hamid Baeidinejad to complain formally over story claiming Iran prepared to kill UK troops — The Iranian ambassador to the UK …
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.
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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Bradley Johnson / Ad Age:
Since 2009, internet media's share of US media jobs has risen from 11% to 36%, while newspapers' share fell from 35% to 17% and magazines' from 16% to 11% — Overall, U.S. media employment has fallen by 20,000 jobs since 2009. What's up? Internet jobs. What's down? Everything else
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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 …
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney pulls local news broadcasts from around a dozen ABC-owned stations from the streaming news app NewsOn, the first major launch partner to leave the app — Disney has pulled local news broadcasts from around a dozen ABC-owned stations from the streaming news app NewsOn as the company forges ahead …
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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Netflix wins just two Golden Globes despite receiving a record 34 nominations; HBO was the big TV winner with four awards, two each for Succession and Chernobyl — Streaming won big in TV at the 2020 Golden Globes, but Netflix failed to take advantage of its record-setting number of nominations.
Nieman Lab:
News organizations will start sending more geotargeted push notifications in 2020, highlighting different aspects of the same articles in different locales — “Coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential election will mark the beginning of gerrymandered news coverage."
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia are accused of downplaying massive bushfires, and The Australian has been consistent in pushing climate change denialism — Herald Sun relegates bushfires to page 4 while Courier Mail brings good news via ‘Onion Oracle’
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