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Filing: Quibi asks CA court to end harassment from interactive media company Eko, which claims IP theft and says Quibi's “Turnstyle” feature infringes on its IP — Quibi says an interactive video sales company called Eko has “embarked on a campaign of threats and harassment.”
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WaPo launches Drop Me The Link, a thrice-weekly politics newsletter with a single link to a story alongside context, aimed at younger or first-time voters — The Washington Post knows the news can feel like a bit much these days. — Even before the coronavirus broke out and the stock market went …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Disney+ executives are still struggling to define its brand identity, as several original series in development have been dropped in the past year — In his new role “getting everything right creatively,” the former CEO is likely to tackle the streaming service, which …
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Ampere: ~55% of programming on Disney+ is 10+ years old, compared to 48% on Prime Video and 19% on Netflix; Disney has 54 series in production vs. Netflix's 287 — - Getting the programming right has led to false starts — Some shows prove more suited to Hulu's grownup audience
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Source: Trump told aides he's afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One — Publicly, he sees it as yet another ("Fake News") media war; privately, he worries about virus-carrying journalists on Air Force One. But cancel his rallies?
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
January filing shows that NBCUniversal sold its entire stake in Snap; NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap in 2017 — Despite the previously unreported sale late last year, NBCU says it's committed to the Snap relationship, and is producing more programming than ever for the platform.
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Scott Nover / Adweek:
Reddit launches Trending Takeovers, a new ad product that lets brands buy 24 hours of placement on the site's Popular feed and within its search tab — Advertisers can get prime placement on the Popular feed and search tab — Key Insights: — The “front page of the internet” is about to get a little more corporate.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A+E and AMC cancel live presentations scheduled for March as part of “upfront” ad-sales, following Fox News and Comcast's FreeWheel, due to COVID-19 concerns — A+E Networks said it would cancel the live presentation it had scheduled March 25 as part of the industry's annual …
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Politico, WaPo, Daily Beast, and Mother Jones ask staff who covered CPAC to self-quarantine and work remotely, after an attendee tested positive for COVID-19 — The measures are being taken out of an abundance of caution. — Politico, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast …
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Tim Warsinskey / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland's The Plain Dealer says it is laying off another 22 newsroom employees, of which 18 are unionized, leaving 77 journalists covering Northeast Ohio — CLEVELAND, Ohio — For more than a decade, the newspaper industry has faced a grueling uphill climb to remain financially viable in a digital age.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FuboTV adds NHL Network to its Extra and Sports Plus packages; over the next few weeks it will also add MLB Network to both packages — Internet streaming pay-TV provider FuboTV will now offer the networks of all four U.S. professional sports leagues with the addition of those for Major League Baseball and the NHL.
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Dan Gillmor:
In a time of dwindling resources for journalism, the need for a major journalistic collaboration on issues like COVID-19 has never been more obvious — It's Sunday, March 8. Two of America's best journalism organizations are featuring deep looks into the confusion, incompetence …
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Facebook now has a “partly false information” label on the video of Joe Biden posted by White House staff and shared by Trump, following fact checkers' input — - Facebook labeled a video shared by President Trump as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign put the company on blast.
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump
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