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9:15 AM ET, February 5, 2020

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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Spotify to buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, intends to hire Simmons and all of his approximately 90 employees  —  The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 |  Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair  —  It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Q4: 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, paying users up 29% YoY to 124M, overall revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY  —  Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe  —  Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
President Trump awarded Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom during Tuesday's State of the Union  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday in an unprecedented move during the State of the Union address.
Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Disney beats analyst expectations for Q1, reporting $20.86B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, 26.5M subscribers for Disney+, and 30.4M for Hulu, up 33% YoY  —  DIS) posted better than expected results in the company's first report since the launch of its eponymous streaming service.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue  —  - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say  — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
Bloomberg:
Sources: Liz Schimel, the head of business for Apple News who oversaw advertiser and publisher relations, steps down; Apple is seeking a replacement  —  - Liz Schimel was Conde Nast executive prior to joining in 2018  — Paid news and magazine service had a sluggish first year
Adam Piore / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of RedState owner Salem Media Group, which preaches both Christian morality and Trump through its digital arm Townhall that gets 15M+ monthly uniques  —  The Salem Media empire preaches morality and Donald Trump  —  Even for Washington, so accustomed to political sex scandals, the story of Katie Hill was a bombshell.
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
Bauer tests bundled app subscriptions with Bikes Unlimited, an app that includes all six of Bauer UK's motorcycle titles, for £7.99 a month or £89.99 per year  —  Digital magazine apps have had a hard time over the past decade.  Promises of rich multimedia iPad editions fell flat …
David McCabe / New York Times:
Disney, MPAA, News Media Alliance are among those lobbying to limit Section 230, citing copyright concerns, threatening Google, FB, and the web as we know it  —  A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.
 
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Verizon Media launches a new, millennial-focused personal finance site called Cashay
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK government launches a public consultation on proposals to stop prosecuting people for non-payment of the license fee
Christine Sun Kim / New York Times:
Fox failed to show the full American Sign Language performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl on TV or online, making it inaccessible for the deaf
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Jess Brammar named editor-in-chief of HuffPost UK, replacing Jimmy Leach, who held the position for less than a year
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Alphabet's Jigsaw unveils Assembler, a free tool that identifies doctored photos; it is testing it with 12+ news and fact-checking orgs, like Rappler and AFP
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dotdash acquires two more digital publishers, TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network, to create a sustainability vertical in an all-cash deal
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY