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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 — - Google broke out numbers for YouTube and Cloud for the first time Monday. — YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in 2019 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sundar Pichai says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20M paying subscribers, and YouTube TV has more than 2M subscribers in the US — YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20 million paying subscribers, and YouTube TV — Google's …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs escorted out of Trump campaign Iowa press event on Monday, after a Dec. campaign pledge to no longer credential Bloomberg reporters — President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer …
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New York Times, @jason_kint, @benyankee, @brianstelter, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and The Hill
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
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FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, New Republic, @mathewi, @ryanlawler, @jon_allsop, @cjr and CNN
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
The numbers from the spiked Des Moines Register poll in Iowa circulated among some journalists, and some of them say the poll quietly influenced their coverage
The numbers from the spiked Des Moines Register poll in Iowa circulated among some journalists, and some of them say the poll quietly influenced their coverage
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@robertmackey, @hhavrilesky, @zeeshanaleem, @kantrowitz, @mattdpearce, @lisatozzi and The Week
Adam Wren / Politico:
LGBT reporters covering Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay mainstream presidential candidate, say they bring a unique perspective that straight reporters lack
LGBT reporters covering Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay mainstream presidential candidate, say they bring a unique perspective that straight reporters lack
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@hollyvhays, @natesilver538, @davidsiders, @gpollowitz, @lis_smith, @scottbix, @priscillawt, @brianstelter and Poynter
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and paper walk out 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
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John Ourand / Sports Business Daily:
ESPN the Magazine will publish its first special issue on Friday since it stopped publication in September; it will be dedicated to Kobe Bryant — BREAKING NEWS in front of the paywall tonight: we have a report that ESPN will drop a special 96-page magazine on Friday dedicated to Kobe Bryant …
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Super Bowl posts its first year-to-year ratings increase in five years with roughly 102M viewers watching the broadcast and the stream — The game posted its first year-to-year increase in five years, and ‘The Masked Singer’ scored big after the game. — The Super Bowl scored …
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole from G/O Media for an undisclosed cash sum; ClickHole employees will become the majority owners of the site — Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased Clickhole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount …
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Business Insider, @gmgunion, Understandably, @imleor, @tfswebb, @ryanmer, @whitneym02, The Verge and Wall Street Journal
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: CNN anchors are being excluded from the annual presidential luncheon with TV network anchors, the first time a president has singled out one network — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, @lucymarcus, @brespolitico and @kairyssdal
Meghna Rao / Splice:
The Ken, a one-story per weekday subscription news site in India, says it will unbundle its Southeast Asian offering from its Indian offering — They now have reporters across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. — When the team at India's The Ken …
Peter White / Deadline:
Sky pledges to be net zero carbon by 2030 by developing sustainable studios, helping its partners, and transforming its 5K vehicle fleet — Sky is set to go net zero carbon over the next ten years - looking to become Europe's first net zero carbon media and entertainment company.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, @skyoceanrescue, Sky Sports and Variety
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How Bristol Cable's co-operative membership model, where users pay as much or as little as they can, helped it persist with a long-running slavery investigation — The Bristol Cable's co-operative membership model helped it sustain a long-running investigation into claims of modern day slavery …
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
HBO Max acquires “On the Record”, the documentary about a Russell Simmons accuser that Oprah pulled from Apple TV+ — Following a thunderstorm of Oprah Winfrey-related controversy and a successful Sundance film festival premiere, “On the Record” has secured domestic distribution at HBO Max.
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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 …
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