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Eli Glasner / CBC News:
Canadian panel report recommends requiring that “media curators” like Netflix invest in local shows and that they ensure discoverability of Canadian content — Heritage minister has said legislation could be coming within the year — A sweeping new report on Canada's broadcasting …
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@robyncaplan, @pmnapoli, ic.gc.ca, Reuters, @maximebernier, @jj_mccullough, Hashtag Trending, @sunlorrie and Hollywood Reporter
American Press Institute:
Craig Newmark Philanthropies donates $388K to American Press Institute to develop a network of newsroom leaders and others to combat disinfo in 2020 election — The American Press Institute today announced a grant of $388,000 from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to build a real-time network …
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@ampress and @kevinloker
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
ABC News suspends chief national correspondent Matt Gutman for wrongly reporting that all four of Kobe Bryant's daughters were on the helicopter that crashed — ABC News has suspended the correspondent who speculated on-air that all four of Kobe Bryant's daughters were on board the helicopter …
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@mattgutmanabc, CNN, Sports Illustrated, iMediaEthics, The Daily Caller, The Hill, @mrmokelly, @byrobinepley, @mr_jasonjones, @williamrichjr, @strategicpio, @nuuzz, @raiklin, @marcatracy, @kiaspeaks, Variety, FTVLive, Deadline, TVWeek.com, KTLA, TVNewser, Mediaite, Awful Announcing, Fox News and The Wrap
Danielle Abril / Fortune:
Survey of 12,043 US adults: 59% distrust Facebook for political and election news, including 62% of Republicans and 59% of Democrats, while 48% distrust Twitter — Facebook and Twitter are a long way from instilling confidence after letting misinformation flood their services during recent elections, according to a new survey.
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Nieman Lab, @conradhackett, @danielledigest, @katmatsa and @michaelbarthel
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
A look at CollegeHumor's rise, from a scrappy startup to a digital media player, and its fall, as YouTube and Facebook made its business model obsolete — The company grew from a scrappy startup to a digital media player. Now it's clinging to life after mass layoffs.
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@ashkan, Simon Owens's Tech … and @mschaubach
Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
Vogue.com will launch a shopping vertical with curated, shoppable style advice, following the failure of Style.com, Conde Nast's previous foray into e-commerce — Rickie De Sole will lead the push in her newly created executive fashion director role. — Condé Nast is not giving …
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@edwardbarsamian
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Felicia Sonmez's suspension exposes the tyranny of newsroom social media policies, which often read like hamfisted attempts to reconcile competing impulses — On Sunday—amid the wave of public eulogizing that followed the death of Kobe Bryant—many people on Twitter stressed …
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New York Times, @hshaban, New York Times, The Daily Caller, @nytopinion, @mims, @brosandprose, @clairecm, @asmamk, @wpjenna, @pomeranian99, @marcfennell, The Guardian, @eshap, @brianstelter, @froomkin, @max_read, @sarahmseltzer, @mattdpearce, @jeffgiesea, @nytopinion, @lemieuxlgm, @max_read, @aaronpcalvin, @ma_franks, @salhernandez, @tomgara, @ericalg, @chick_in_kiev, @bernstein, @taylorlorenz, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @walldo, @haleysswenson, @jeremydgoodwin, @stephaniemlee, @jeremydgoodwin, @daveyalba, @davpjor, @ellesep, @_cingraham, @fenitn, @lainnafader and @jon_allsop
Reuters:
Verizon adds 790K phone customers in Q4, well above estimates of 525K subscribers, as it benefited from including Disney+ in some of its plans — Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday added more monthly mobile phone subscribers than expected as it benefited from including Disney+ streaming service with some of its plans.
Discussion:
MediaPost, Variety, CNN and @loudmouthjulia
Brent Lang / Variety:
Emma Watts has resigned as president of production at Twentieth Century Studios, joining several other Fox veterans who left the company after the Disney merger — Emma Watts has resigned as president of production at Twentieth Century Studios, eending a two decade-long run at the film company.
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap and Deadline
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
A record £3.6B was spent on film and TV production in the UK in 2019, with £1.66B spent on shows costing £1M+/episode; £1.3B came from foreign companies — Spending on high-end TV dramas by Netflix and Amazon eclipses BBC, Sky and ITV
Discussion:
@charlottekaye, @tilehopper and @hipafaralkis
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
France-Antilles, a trio of outlets in French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, has been liquidated, making them the first regions of France without a daily — Three French territories situated some 4,000 miles from the country's mainland are about to lose their daily newspapers.
Discussion:
@yarimarbonilla
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Q&A with Ben Smith on his move to NYT, his lack of doubt about publishing the Steele dossier, BuzzFeed's young union, and the merging of politics and media — On Tuesday, the New York Times announced that its new media columnist, a job most famously held by the late David Carr …
Discussion:
@yayitsrob, @floozyesq, @raju, @meslackman, @asankin, @atossaaraxia, @mairavz, @tomnamako, @yoloethics, @kurtsoller, @lisatozzi, @michaelluo, @ichotiner, @jbenton, @mathewi, @rafat, @benmullin, @reillyadam, @adriana_lacy, @adriana_lacy, @tomnamako, @dylanbyers, @ggreenwald, @chanders and @austinhunt
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Julian Knight named chairman of UK's Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee; he has called for a shift from the BBC license fee to a subscription model — Damian Collins has been ousted from his role as chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee after three years by a former BBC and Independent journalist.
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