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9:25 AM ET, February 4, 2020

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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 …

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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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

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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

Discussion: @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

Discussion: @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

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Some UK media outlets declined to use Boris Johnson's Brexit Day speech footage after it was filmed and distributed by the government in a break from tradition

Discussion: @billyliar10

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Reuters, TVLine, The Daily Caller and Deadline

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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: @jbenton and @alansoon

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.

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap

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: @digitalshields, @lucas_shaw and @gerryfsmith

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu's Randy Freer and Twentieth Century's Emma Watts chose to depart rather than accept lesser roles as Disney's strategy for Fox assets became clear

Discussion: @jbflint

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