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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Publishers from the NYT to Bloomberg, WSJ, LAT, The Atlantic, and McClatchy drop their paywalls for coronavirus coverage — An interesting decision as some organizations have recently instituted them — Key insights: — More publishers have had to decide whether to make content free …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sports broadcasters face diminished ad revenue and questions over rights payments with the suspension of the NBA, NHL, and MLS and cancellation of March Madness — Networks face lost ad revenue and pressure from distributors as NBA sports-rights payments loom
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix shuts down physical production, prep of scripted TV and film for two weeks in US and Canada as networks and studios also pause production on many shows — ABC's 'Grey's Anatomy,' Apple's ‘The Morning Show’ and CBS' ‘NCIS’ have taken a two-week hiatus; Disney TV Studios shut down 16 pilots …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
CBS and NBC are suspending production of late night shows with Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers until at least March 30 due to coronavirus
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Los Angeles Times:
Many high-profile films, like Mulan, Fast & Furious 9, and the latest James Bond, are rescheduling release dates in response to coronavirus
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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
NBC, CBS, and WarnerMedia cancel live upfronts, the events scheduled through mid-May to entice advertisers, due to COVID-19; they will stream or televise events
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Business says Trish Regan Primetime is “on hiatus until further notice” after Regan's on-air dismissal of coronavirus as “another attempt to impeach” Trump — The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” told viewers this week that concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Disney is releasing Frozen 2 on Disney+ three months early starting Mar. 15 in the US, Mar. 17 in four other countries, citing “challenging period” for families — The Walt Disney Company is taking the edge off of “social distancing” from the coronavirus this weekend …
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Rachel Piper / Better News:
Q&A with Rachel Piper, digital news director at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on how the paper drove subscriptions by making journalists its brand ambassadors — Here's an idea to steal and adapt: Ask the journalists in your newsroom to tell readers about the value of their work …
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Adele Peters / Fast Company:
Uncensored Library, a Reporters Without Borders project in Minecraft, lets people anywhere read articles from censored journalists and get info on press freedom — In countries where censorship is standard practice—such as China, where articles and social media posts about COVID-19 …
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Allyson McCabe / NPR:
As music listening habits move away from radio, “sync placement” on TV ads and shows have become an important way for new artists to have their music heard — As listening habits have shifted away from radio, visual media have become more important for discovering new music.
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Broadcom sues Netflix for infringement of eight patents dealing with video playback and data transmission, claims cord-cutting reduced demand for Broadcom chips — Broadcom, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips for cable set-top boxes, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Netflix on Friday.
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Jim Rich / Deadspin:
Deadspin begins publishing again with new editor-in-chief Jim Rich — As you can see, Deadspin is posting new stories again. Our original plan had been to begin publishing on Monday, March 16, but the news cycle — and the rapidly changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic — wouldn't wait for such plans.
Janna Brancolini / Columbia Journalism Review:
In Milan, a journalist reflects on how international reporting overuses the word “quarantine” to describe a complicated situation in constant flux — Yesterday morning I woke up, realized I was low on espresso, and went to the supermarket down the street to stock up.
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple Music has signed new multi-year streaming licensing deals with Universal, Sony, and Warner; deals don't extend to Apple's planned media bundle — Agreements with Universal, Sony and Warner secure streaming rights to artists including Taylor Swift
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