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David Welna / NPR:
Pompeo accuses NPR's Mary Louise Kelly of lying in setting up interview, claims post-interview exchange was off the record; NPR CEO says it won't be intimidated — One day after a contentious interview followed by an expletive-filled verbal lashing of NPR host Mary Louise Kelly …
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
After a testy interview, All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly says Mike Pompeo shouted at her, cursed, and asked her to find Ukraine on a map — All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly claimed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shouted at her, dropped the F-bomb …
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Lynzy Billing / ZORA:
A look at various challenges Afghan female journalists face while reporting in a deeply patriarchal country, where 1,700 out of 10K in its press corps are women — Women reporters aim to remain at the forefront of their stories; now international media outlets need to hire them
Shannon Liao / CNN:
Inside game streaming wars, where Ninja reportedly got paid $20M to $30M to move to Mixer and streamers with 10K concurrent views on Twitch can get $10M+ offers — New York (CNN Business)When Jeremy Wang started streaming on Twitch in 2016, he was an unknown twenty-something with a few coding internships under his belt.
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Matthew Kassel / Mediaite:
As he moves on to become New York Times' writer at large, Jim Rutenberg reflects on writing NYT's media-focused column, Mediator, since 2016 — When Jim Rutenberg began writing the New York Times media column at the start of 2016, on the cusp of Donald Trump's election …
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
Philip Jacobson, the US editor for Mongabay who was detained in Indonesia over alleged visa violations, has been released from jail and will likely be deported — The authorities had threatened a yearslong prison sentence for Philip Jacobson, who was jailed for three days.
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Conservation news, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and The Jakarta Post
David W. Cerny / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Survey of 97 journalists from central and eastern EU: 63% say a politician has publicly criticized them, 64.5% have been harassed, and 22 have had phones tapped — Demonstrators attend a protest rally in reaction to the murder of Slovak investigative reporter Ján Kuciak …
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Lauren Fisher / eMarketer:
In 2020, programmatic ad spending on private marketplaces, where a deal exists between publishers and ad buyers, to surpass spending on open exchanges, a first — This year, for the first time, programmatic ad spending on private marketplaces (PMP) will surpass that on open exchanges.
BBC:
BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane to step down from his role due to PTSD stemming from “several decades of work in conflict zones around the world” — The BBC's Fergal Keane is stepping down from his role as Africa editor due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Mansha Daswani / World Screen:
PwC: there were 635 deals in the media and telco space in 2019, down 27% YoY; overall deal value dropped 25% to $91.9B with 4 megadeals accounting for $40.6B — While calling 2019 a “transformative year” in M&A in the media and telco sectors, with several megadeals and a shifting relationship …
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Broadcasting & Cable
Sam Sabin / Morning Consult:
Survey of 1,996 registered voters finds 94% saw or heard something about Trump's tweets: 72% were aware via broadcast or cable news, 29% were aware from Twitter — Among voters who had heard about any of his tweets, 72% did so through TV and cable news vs. 29% on Twitter
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofman announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue — Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue — SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA …
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Engadget, @eff, Bloomberg Law and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon claims Prime Video has ~65K titles, but 66% of those are user uploaded, including thousands of short instructional clips and conspiracy theory videos — Streaming service touts its large collection of titles, but a majority are uploads—and questionable films are in the mix
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Always Be Watching, @kimmasters, Vox, @benfritz, @shaneshifflett, @edbott, @bruno_j_navarro, Gizmodo and Variety
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