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11:30 AM ET, February 3, 2020

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New York Times:
Des Moines Register, CNN cancel release of final Iowa Poll results ahead of caucuses, after Pete Buttigieg's campaign complained he wasn't included in one call  —  The release of the highly anticipated survey was canceled after complaints from Pete Buttigieg's campaign that he was not included in at least one phone call.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Iowa Starting Line, a small local news site in Des Moines that has rivaled The Des Moines Register for scoops and influence ahead of the Iowa caucuses  —  Iowa Starting Line began as a man and his laptop.  It's now a rare success story in the ailing world of local news.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Campaign coverage ahead of Iowa caucuses was dominated by the impeachment as ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly news devoted 10 minutes of airtime vs 86 minutes in 2016  —  New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.  You can sign up for free right here.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: last year WaPo editor Marty Baron threatened to fire reporter Wesley Lowery after he posted a series of tweets about racism in the Tea Party  —  The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy.
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Sources: handling of Felicia Sonmez's tweets is the latest example of unequal treatment of men and women at WaPo, also reflected in its coverage and pay gap  —  There's an “understated respectability” that is “secretly pernicious,” said one woman.  —  Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez received death …
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and newspaper walkout after attempts to remove those from left-of-center publications from a Downing Street briefing  —  Members of every major national news outlet left a Downing Street briefing in protest in an escalation of tensions between Boris Johnson's team and the media
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Profile of The Dispatch, the newly launched conservative media outlet targeting the “center-right” with fact-based original reporting instead of cheap hot takes  —  Jonah Goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Publishers like the Guardian, The Times, and Le Monde are publishing fewer stories, leading to higher audience traffic, higher dwell times, and more subscribers  —  Increasingly, publishers are seeing that less is more when it comes to producing content.  —  Publishers including the Guardian …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A look at the Minneapolis Star Tribune's strategies for maintaining print revenue and growing paid digital subscribers as it aims for 150K digital subs by 2025  —  The paramount business goal for many newspapers in 2020, metros especially, is building out a paid digital subscription base.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney's Hulu grew twice as fast as Netflix in the US last year, easily surpassing 30M total subscribers  —  - Company will update investors on online effort this week  —  As the workday wound to a close Friday evening, employees from Hulu flocked to local watering holes across Santa Monica …
Discussion: @lucas_shaw and @gerryfsmith
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
YouTube details how it's cracking down on election disinformation: removing doctored and misleading videos, as well as those questioning candidate's eligibility  —  Just in time for the Iowa caucuses, YouTube this morning clarified how it's cracking down on videos spreading falsehoods related to elections …
Nasdaq:
Tribune Publishing says its CEO Timothy Knight is leaving and will be succeeded by EVP and CFO Terry Jimenez, who will also become its President  —  (RTTNews) - Tribune Publishing Co. (TPCO) said that its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Terry Jimenez has assumed the role …
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS will launch its free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV in Latin America at the end of March and Brazil at the end of 2020
Discussion: The Streamable and Reuters
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Gaana, the most popular music-streaming service in India, has 152M monthly users, over half of Spotify's global user base, double Apple Music's global count
Taylor Mulcahey / International Journalists' Network:
Interview with Wendi C. Thomas, founder of MLK50, a Memphis outlet covering poverty and power, on the challenges of launching and funding a publication
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Report: UK National newsbrands took in £1B in ad revenue in 2018, down 2.7% YoY, with online ad spend comprising £318M; ad spend projected to fall 2.5% for 2019
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At Super Bowl's radio row, athletes get assigned a day of the week, based on their celebrity, to appear on many shows, where they can also plug products
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
In interview, Dean Baquet says NYT won't take sides in its reporting, favoring “sophisticated objectivity” over labeling lies: “let somebody else call it a lie”
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Zero Hedge posted a scientist's personal info and claimed the scientist created the coronavirus as a weapon; its Twitter account has been permanently suspended
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency

 
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