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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
SensorTower: HBO Max has seen just 90,000 downloads of its mobile app on its first day, compared to 4M for Disney+ and 300,000 for Quibi on their first days — - Disney+ had 4 million first-day downloads; Quibi over 300,000 — AT&T's WarnerMedia disputes figure, says it's happy with debut
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
HBO Max launches without being on Roku and Amazon, the two most popular streaming platforms
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple acquires Martin Scorsese's next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro — ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ to be labeled an Apple Original Film — Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese's next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon …
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Apple's acquisition of Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead of a reboot on TV+ signals a strategy shift for the service that had relied on original content
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Ludovic Blecher / The Keyword:
Google grants between $5K and $30K to 5,300+ small and medium local newsrooms around the world through its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund — COVID-19 has upended the news industry, hitting local news particularly hard with job losses, furloughs, cutbacks and even closure.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
The Drudge Report has been linking to an obscure site filled with plagiarized content from NYT and others, sending ~8M pageviews to the site since November — On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Kara Swisher revealed that a widower sent a personal letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking …
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Janeen Jones / Center for Public Integrity:
Center for Public Integrity names Matt DeRienzo as editor in chief; DeRienzo has been editor of the New Haven Register and executive director of LION Publishers — The veteran in nonprofit and local journalism has transformed newsrooms. — Washington, D.C. — Matt DeRienzo …
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Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
Hearst is offering free PSA ads to advertisers in Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Marie Claire, which will also help thicken issues at a time when ads are falling — More than 80 brands have participated, including Chanel, Gucci, Cartier, Carolina Herrera and Unilever.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Indiegraf, with funding via Google News Initiative and Facebook Journalism Project, launches as a network of local news sites sharing resources in Canada — What would a newspaper chain look like if it were reimagined for a group of digital, subscriber-funded publications?
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Russian journalist Ilya Azar of Novaya Gazeta sentenced to 15 days in jail after a protest, and six other journalists who protested in his support were detained — MOSCOW — A Moscow district court has sentenced a prominent Russian journalist to 15 days in jail, while police detained several …
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Memo: Amazon Studios co-head of movies, Ted Hope, is leaving to return to his role as a producer, and will enter a multi-year first-look deal with the company — EXCLUSIVE: Big move over at Amazon Studios. Ted Hope has decided to exit as Co-Head of Movies to go back to his origins as a producer.
New York Times:
Wirecutter moves to nytimes.com but says its editorial team will continue to work independently from The Times — At Wirecutter, we pride ourselves on conducting rigorous and thoughtful real-world testing to help make our readers' lives better. One of the most important aspects of our work …
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Bloomberg:
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down” — - Attack comes after Twitter fact-checked, labeled Trump tweet — Tech companies have faced criticism from conservatives of bias
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, Trump, his campaign, and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Roth works on manipulation and bots
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.
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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
A look at leftist podcasts, like Chapo Trap House, which generates $2M in Patreon subscriptions annually from 36K subscribers, in the wake of Sanders' loss — Chapo Trap House—one of the most popular podcasts of the American far left—took a sharp turn after a devastating Super Tuesday for its preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders.
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Behind the rise of TikTok “cults”, like Step Chickens, which revolve around a single creator and borrow tactics from “comment raid” groups on other platforms — Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Stringr, a marketplace connecting news outlets with videographers that provide footage, raises $5.75M from Thomson Reuters and others — Stringr, a video-focused startup that says it can help news organizations adapt to the challenges of COVID-19, is announcing that it's raised $5.75 million in new funding.
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