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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News is laying off some digital staff, including Chris Stirewalt, per source, a politics editor who oversaw the team that projected Arizona for Biden — Fox News is laying off some employees who work for its digital operations, part of an ongoing examination of its overall business …
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post: Top Fox News managers depart amid Murdoch's concerns over controversial Arizona election night projection
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: BREAKING —> Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt was laid off today alongside just under 20 Fox News staffers. Stirewalt sat on the Fox News decision desk, which has come under fire for its early call on Arizona election night. Story forthcoming...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Chris Stirewalt was laid off because Fox's decision desk accurately called the race for Trump, while Maria Bartiromo may get promoted for her conspiracy theories about the election being stolen. This is what Fox News is and aspires to be: A propaganda machine.
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: More changes at Fox News: Greg GUTFELD is under consideration for a daily late-night talk show, via @RachelAbramsNY & me https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris D. Jackson / @chrisdjackson: Fired for being right. Imagine that. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Keep in mind that Fox's “hard news” division is how they're able to convince advertisers, many of whom have ditched the racist and conspiratorial opinion shows, to stay with the network. That cover is almost gone now. Without it, they're basically Breitbart with carriage fees. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Greenfield / @greenfield64: Message from FOX to viewers switching to OAN and Newsmax: “We promise to get rid of anyone who accurately reports news you do not want to believe. Trust us to rinforce whatever falsehoods make you comfortable.” https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: At most news orgs, a person who helped make a big and accurate early call, stuck to it based on data, and was proven right would be celebrated. At Fox News, he gets laid off. https://twitter.com/...
@grudging1: Fox is going to give Newsmax and OAN all the crazy competition they can handle. Rupert may be the most destructive individual in US history. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Hey where are all the ‘cancel culture’ folks right now? https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: We know direction Fox is going. They're like a meteor approaching. Heating up. They'll be worse than ever. It will make their business implode if we act. Open question remains: will it burn up and break apart or will it crash and cause massive damage. We decide by what we do. https://twitter.com/...
Doug Smock / @dougsmock: Well, this is a crock. He was a solid political analyst at the Charleston Daily Mail and somebody I could count on at Fox to give it to us pretty straight. (Full disclosure: He once played in my fantasy football league.) https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: I know that some people had a bit of optimism that Fox would shift to more news/less crazy conspiracy theory stuff after the election... I hate to say I told you so... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Fox said Biden would win Arizona. Biden did win Arizona. Which created a crisis at Fox. Now, heads have rolled. This would never happen at a reality-based newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer: After helping incite a violent insurrection that killed several people, the Murdoch family is doubling down on dangerous propaganda. Once again, congrats to all of the “journalists” at Fox that whitewash this dangerous behavior. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Yet more evidence that Fox ‘News’ is not a news channel. It is a propaganda channel. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Caplan / Breitbart: Report: Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt Laid Off Amid Restructuring
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This makes a lot of sense - my sources have been expecting changes on “The Five” at 5pm - and they've been saying Shannon Bream's 11pm hour is under scrutiny. Gutfeld could move from 5 to 11pm... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Schoofs / @schoofsfeed: Who fires a journalist for getting it *right*? Fox News. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: Another data point making clear why @JoeBiden and his team should not engage with Fox News. There is no news side. It's just the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Mark Berman / @markberman: Rupert Murdoch is unhappy with the way Fox News mishandled the network's call of Arizona for Biden — even though the call was *correct*. The call was correct, the information conveyed to viewers accurate and early, and people got mad so he's displeased https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tim Alberta / @timalberta: Stirewalt is the man. One of the smartest people in political journalism. A huge (and dumbfounding) loss for Fox News. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan V. Last / @jvlast: This is Fox's only possible path: They have to cut the OAN/Newsmax insurgency off at the knees. And to do that, they have to go harder MAGA. Anyone who thought Fox would become more responsible was delusional. Now: What do you think that means for the future of the GOP? https://twitter.com/...
Noah Rothman / @noahcrothman: They were first. They were right. And they're being punished for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: All of Fox's staffing and programming changes are going in the same direction — they are breaking the “news” side in hopes of winning back their pro-Trump viewers. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Sharp / @adams: I worked with @ChrisStirewalt on analyzing the 2012 election using Twitter data. Smart, funny, good guy. Sad for him and his colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
@margokingston1: Murdoch's response to Trump loss: it's gunna get way less fact based. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Lavandera / @edlavacnn: Disturbing reality for a news organization that many Americans still watch, although fewer by the week. https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: To pivot from what now https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: So they're purging the reality-based people, and elevating Maria Bartiromo, the clearest voice of Trump's lies. https://twitter.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: Like I said, if Fox won't clean up its act, big cable operators like Charter and Spectrum should drop it. And we should start discussing how to revive the Fairness Doctrine (which never applied to cable channels, alas). In @PostOpinions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: Which is not to say that Fox won't get worse. Surely it will. But let's not pretend this is some paradigm shift.
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox News' ongoing restructuring efforts results in layoffs at its digital operations. Chris Stirewalt, a politics editor whose on-air profile tends to rise during election cycles, is among those affected https://variety.com/... via @variety
Chaz Nuttycombe / @chaznuttycombe: Arizona was a good call. The call that Democrats would pick up seats in the House was very, very, very premature, and obviously wrong. https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: People talk about Fox News influencing/indoctrinating its audience, which it does. But Fox is also terrified of its audience, which to some extent it lost control of, not just with the election but once Trump wrested it away as his base. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt out in company restructuring
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Laid off for calling the election accurately. https://twitter.com/...
Terry Bouton / @terryboutonhist: Wait, so those calls from Fox News for unity and peace weren't made in good faith? How many advertisers beyond Pillow Guy are going to bankroll Fox's further descent into post-truth madness? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Another staffer tied to coverage of politics, the Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, announced Monday he would retire https://variety.com/...
@gothamgirlblue: Remember when Obama wanted to remove Fox News from the WH Briefing Room and tons of journalists threatened to protest in solidarity with a white nationalist propaganda outlet? Good times. https://twitter.com/...
Howard Dean / @govhowarddean: Fox is such a cesspool. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Terrible. In the meantime, Maria Bartiromo, a person who flooded the airwaves with a firehose of falsehoods, gets a shot at prime time. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Forced out for getting a fact right. Peak Murdoch. Top Fox News managers depart amid Murdoch's concerns over controversial Arizona election night projection By Sarah Ellison https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News: Put that in your Hot Pocket
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News launches a new 7PM opinion show tonight with six hosts in rotation: Bartiromo, Kilmeade, Trey Gowdy, Katie Pavlich, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Mark Steyn
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Media Matters for America: Maria Bartiromo baselessly alleges that “Democrats infiltrated two weeks ago and put on MAGA clothing” for January 6 insurrection
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: At Fox News, a post-election shake-up brings more opinion at the expense of news
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: Fox News correctly predicted Arizona election results earlier than anyone else. So why were the two top editorial voices involved in that projection booted from the company? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Maria Bartiromo will get a tryout as Fox's new 7 pm host A news staffer tells me: “It is ludicrous and disheartening that we are rewarding her with a primetime spot, knowing fullwell she is among the most responsible for propagating the big election lie' https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Maria Bartiromo will get a trial run as host of Fox's new 7 p.m. weekday opinion show, which replaced a news hour https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@pamkeithfl: This is what excusing the ring-leaders of sedition leads to. More lies, chaos & division. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Just what we don't need. .... At Fox News, a post-election shake-up brings more opinion at the expense of news. Good look by @jeremymbarr https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This is Maria Bartiromo - once a semi-respectable business reporter and now indistinguishable from Alex Jones and InfoWars. Never let her live these dangerous lies down. Never. Ever. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: I used to go on Maria Bartiromo's show when she was on CNBC. Maybe she was this way all along and I didn't see it, but at Fox News she has become a disgrace to journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Lockhart / @joelockhart: @foxnews. Will there be any discipline for spreading this lie. Wasn't Seth Rich enough of a lesson? https://twitter.com/...
Don Winslow / @donwinslow: .@MariaBartiromo said on television today that the January 6 attack on the Capitol were Democrats dressing up as Republicans. A claim that is totally baseless and absurd and for which she will likely suffer no consequences. I hope her sponsors are at least notified. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Is there no way Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch can be held to account for condoning this kind of vicious lying? https://twitter.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: Fox's Maria Bartiromo, promoter of the Big Lie that led to the deadly Capitol attack, remains on the board of trustees at @nyuniversity. Why would a major U.S. university like NYU want to trash its reputation by keeping Bartiromo on the board? https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: “A news staffer tells me: ‘[In all seriousness, I work at Fox News, none of this should be surprising, and the fact that I consider this “disheartening” suggests that I had irrational expectations for this proven lie machine].’” https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Unbelievable. Almost no one on this horrendous network has pushed out more disinformation than Maria Bartiromo. And than is saying something. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's been clear since the election that Fox's strategy was going to be to move more to the hard right. Just yesterday it came out that Maria Bartiromo would be doing a trial run for a primetime Fox show. Today, she floated an unhinged conspiracy theory. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
@mmfa: Obviously, this claim about the storming of the Capitol on January 6 is completely bonkers. But while Bartiromo has been pushing deranged conspiracy theories, she's now among the people being given a chance to host Fox's new primetime show. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ian Bassin / @ianbassin: Just as the rest of the world is realizing how dangerous the right wing insurrection movement is and responsible companies are taking a stand, @rupertmurdoch doubles down. Madness. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: Outrageous but unsurprising https://twitter.com/...
Peri Gilpin / @gilpinperi: Have any of the 100 arrests been Democrats dressed in MAGA clothing? No. And no one who stormed, vandalized, threatened to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi or smeared their own droppings at the Capitol was a Democrat dressed in MAGA clothing. They were all Trump supporters. https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Hemmer / @pastpunditry: In 2016, Fox News signaled it was refashioning itself as a pro-Trump network by shelving its Trump skeptics and promoting Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. With this move, they're signaling their intent to go after Newsmax's audience in the months and years to come. https://twitter.com/...
Ellen / NewsHounds blog: Why Did Fox Insist On Keeping Seth Rich Settlement Secret Until After The Election?
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: “Another news staffer told me that the move sends ‘[a message that they care about opinion more than news, which is like saying koalas are more interested in eucalyptus than in chartered accountancy, which duh.]’” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo: Bartiromo Keeps Up Trumpy Lie: Dems Dressed Up In MAGA Gear And Attacked Congress!
Stephen Battaglio / @stevebattaglio: Exclusive: Fox News Primetime hosts include @MariaBartiromo @KatiePavlich @MarkSteynOnline @TGowdySC @RCamposDuffy and @kilmeade https://www.latimes.com/...
Colby Hall / Mediaite: Fox Business Anchor Maria Bartiromo Spreads Wild Conspiracy That ‘Democrats Infiltrated’ Capitol Riots By Wearing ‘MAGA Clothing’
Alex Koppelman / @alexkoppelman: This is the lineup you pick if you've realized you're a propaganda network and you've decided you're fine with that. https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Fox News insisted its settlement with Seth Rich's family stay secret until after the presidential election. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Schafer / @ischafer: The ad industry's greatest failure is letting Fox News do their business as usual. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: To even *entertain* the idea that she deserves a bigger platform after the past few months says it all. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Matheson / @tim_matheson: Trump couldn't have incited sedition without the help of Fox News The US needs a new FCC FAIRNESS DOCTRINE & put an end to the BIG LIES Fox News, OAN, & NewsMax keep telling. It should be illegal to LIE on the Public's Airwaves & Cable!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Fox News' latest head-scratching decision: Giving Maria Bartiromo space in primetime
Max Boot / @maxboot: If Fox won't stop peddling sedition, then large cable companies such as Comcast and Charter Spectrum, which carry Fox and provide much of its revenues in the form of user fees, need to step in and kick Fox off. @PostOpinions https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Melanie D'Arrigo / @darrigomelanie: Exactly this. If you have a cable subscription from @comcast @GetSpectrum @hulu @verizonfios @ATT you are paying between $1-$3/month for Fox News even if you never watch it. That's $billions per year. Pressure cable companies to stop forcing us to subsidize their hate and lies. https://twitter.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: Perhaps they could create some sort or “Ministry of Truth” to review the accuracy of news programming. https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: Trump couldn't have incited sedition without the help of Fox News https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Maria Bartiromo has been the source of some of the most destructive conspiracy theories at Fox Business and Fox News...particularly in the past few months. But what is Fox going to do...fire her? They allowed her to book guests like Sidney Powell. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: If I were Trish Regan, I'd be pretty upset that I got pushed out of Fox for doing one little COVID conspiracy theory while Maria Bartiromo has spend months entertaining election fraud theories and got a promotion! https://twitter.com/...
Patt Morrison / @pattmlatimes: Whatever Fox may say, look to find its metrics of worth in what it does, like this: https://twitter.com/...
Declan Garvey / @declanpgarvey: Maria Bartiromo four (4) days ago https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Kelly / @jkelly3rd: Reward for disinformation spreading is ... a new show on Fox News. https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: Disinformation spread by Fox News inspired a domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol. In response, Fox gives some of its most shameless liars and propagandists more air time. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: Imagine promoting Maria Bartiromo after all the nonsense she's peddled during the Trump years https://twitter.com/...
Joe Walsh / @walshfreedom: Good job @FoxNews. Rewarding Maria for spreading the big lie of the “stolen” election. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Kleefeld / @erickleefeld: Maria Bartiromo was still promoting the election Big Lie last week, even after the January 6 insurrection. (She had still been on vacation when that whole thing first went down.) Fox News has to keep up with Newsmax and OAN. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: Extremely telling that Fox has promoted @MariaBartiromo and @RCamposDuffy some of the biggest promulgators of the lie that led to the Capitol Insurrection into primetime. As a nice bonus they will be alongside the Canadian who rants about how immigrants are bad for America. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriella Hoffman / @gabby_hoffman: Love love seeing this! @townhallcom's @KatiePavlich is among the announced hosts for the forthcoming Fox News Primetime show debuting TONIGHT at 7pm ET. https://www.latimes.com/...
Charlie Spiering / @charliespiering: Nice to see @MariaBartiromo and @KatiePavlich getting a bigger platform https://www.latimes.com/...
Zoë Bernard / The Information:
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish articles related to technology and business from outside contributors — Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which once courted attention from the news media, is ramping up its own media efforts.
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@amir, @s_m_i, @elidourado, @espiers, @eliclifton, @quinnypig, @blackamazon, @nbashaw, @bluespacecanary, @espiers, @strngwys, @pt, @amir, @gaberivera, @ckrewson, @navalang, @dangillmor, @tomgara, @hshaban, @milenarodban, @wadhwa, @teddyschleifer, @shohinigupta, @mjb_sf, @john__rosevear, @zebulgar, @paulbradleycarr, @chrismohney and @amir, more at Techmeme »
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Amir Efrati / @amir: .@a16z is serious about being a media publisher and is looking for two senior editors to launch, among other things, an opinion section that is “unapologetically pro-tech.” @zoeSaintBernard reports. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: A natural next step when you've blocked every journalist who declined to reprint your press releases or asked even mildly skeptical questions https://twitter.com/...
Eli Dourado / @elidourado: Do they sell it as an IV bag? Because I want it injected straight into my veins. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Or to be more specific, at the leadership level, there's no evidence A16z itself is pro-change or pro-future on that front.
Eli Clifton / @eliclifton: Ben Horowitz and his wife donated $25k to his dad's hate group, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which ALSO has opinion pages. Here are the recent opinions Ben helped fund. https://www.frontpagemag.com/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Corey Quinn / @quinnypig: Oh shit yes, just what we all have been craving: more VC Opinions on things! https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: 🥲*laughs heartily in being told it was feeble to ask foundations to get on this before hand * https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Baschez / @nbashaw: Excited about this — congrats @smc90!!! https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
@bluespacecanary: ah yes, Futurist political writing in service of wealthy industrialists, a thing with absolutely no historical analogues, https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Judging from the gender and racial composition of leadership in the Silicon Valley-based tech industry, at least two of these “pros” would be unprecedented. https://twitter.com/...
Roberto Baldwin / @strngwys: Remember when Verizon wanted to do this? Creating “pro-tech” tech sites is not a good look. That's said, there is an audience for this type of site. I think all of potential readers moved to Miami. https://twitter.com/...
Parker / @pt: I'll take unapologetically pro-tech VCs over apologetically pro-tech trade pubs, but I suspect that can be a blurry line from the inside so let's hope they're mindful of it. https://twitter.com/...
Amir Efrati / @amir: And I have to say, some of the firm's content from people like @martin_casado is *fantastic* and useful to founders, reporters, and investors alike.
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: My guess is rather than countering anti-tech reporting, this could succeed in simply promoting ideas the tech press isn't interested in or capable of conveying. (Which sounds potentially good to me...) https://twitter.com/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: @espiers Yeah this popped up in my LinkedIn feed: Executive Editor https://www.linkedin.com/...
Navneet Alang / @navalang: Pro-tech, pro-future, pro-change... so like every tech publication for most of the 21st century then? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: They're describing basically all tech journalism until very recently. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: I want to congratulate Marc Andreessen, who has inexplicably blocked me, for his commitment to investing in editorial content https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: ThE mArKeTpLaCe Of IdEas: https://twitter.com/...
Milena Rodban / @milenarodban: Hmm, I wonder what @antoniogm thinks about this https://twitter.com/...
Vivek Wadhwa / @wadhwa: Trump may start his own political party and Andreessen how own media outlets. Maybe they should team up. https://twitter.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: “Andreessen also has been known to block members of the tech press from viewing his tweets.” https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Shohini Gupta / @shohinigupta: I don't have the words yet to describe how deeply uncomfortable this makes me. “Moving in the direction of “owned media, not earned media,” is one of those things I think will have consequences we don't perceive now. its lowkey a MUN subplot lol https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Melinda Byerley / @mjb_sf: Thank god. Those VCs are so quiet and have no other way to get their ideas out there. Bonus: no pesky rebuttals of fact! https://twitter.com/...
John Rosevear / @john__rosevear: So Fox News, but for tech bros. https://twitter.com/...
Delian / @zebulgar: techies have been talking non-stop about forming their own media institutions so that we can tell our own stories unapologetically pro-tech pro-future pro-change graet to see a16z putting their money where their mouth is and building an editorial team!! https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Paul Bradley Carr / @paulbradleycarr: Oh good, a billionaire Facebook board member (and major substack/clubhouse investor) is launching an “unapologetically pro-tech” opinion site. That sounds totally unsinister and certainly won't run defense for sociopaths. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Mohney / @chrismohney: It's just mindboggling that tech's need for absolute public deference to its mythology still has them barking up this tree, even now https://twitter.com/...
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Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters — Benedict Evans, Andreessen Horowitz's former in-house analyst, has mused over the years that “A16Z is a media company that monetizes through VC.”
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Brady Dale / @bradydale: Anyway, to my fellow tech reporters, I know change is scary but I too am “pro-future” and expect that a16z could be a little surprised by the media future such a move could engender
Brady Dale / @bradydale: Very interesting retelling @EricNewcomer Is it crazy if I find the end of press releases and requests for “desksides” invigorating? Let companies go direct with their launches and their spin https://www.newcomer.co/...
Brady Dale / @bradydale: Let reporters end the dumb race for exclusivity and being “first” and instead do the real work of following up, sizing up and checking out
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: “10% of the 200-person @a16z works on its marketing team. The company is expanding its editorial operation... @smc90's in-house media strategy is the future of the firm. One communications person remarked to me, 'They've become a media company basically.'” https://www.newcomer.co/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: This is the story of how Andreessen Horowitz disrupted the world of venture capital by cozying up to the media and then, how they purposefully threw that relationship away. https://www.newcomer.co/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: Suspiciously leaves out the whole outcast thing and how much easier it was to do PR in those years, and also seems to come to the conclusion that uh, a16z stopped doing PR? Just a weird piece
@jason: .@EricNewcomer “I talked to Wennmachers for over an hour for this story on the condition that I wouldn't quote her. She asked me to write that she strenuously disagreed with many of this story's characterizations and facts” https://www.newcomer.co/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: The lead of my new story The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz https://www.newcomer.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts: This is one of the smartest pieces on media and the tech industry I've ever read. Bravo @EricNewcomer https://www.newcomer.co/...
Kate Clark / @kateclarktweets: “Margit is really a hidden founder of this firm,” a startup founder who has raised money from the firm told me. “The power dynamics there is, Marc, Ben, and Margit.” Great read on a16z's image maker: https://www.newcomer.co/... @EricNewcomer
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: “Today, roughly 10% of the 200-person firm works on its marketing team. The company is expanding its editorial operation. Talk to anyone around the firm and Chokshi's in-house media strategy is the future of the firm.” https://www.newcomer.co/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: a16z is able to go direct because they care about telling stories https://www.newcomer.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Allison Braley / @allisonbraley: @EricNewcomer Can't speak to a16z, but in many cases “going direct” is less an attempt to circumvent the media and more of a reaction to layoffs, and reporters going direct themselves (see: you). If your primary channel is shrinking, it's just bad marketing practice not to diversify.
Sarah Lacy / @sarahcuda: The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz by @EricNewcomer https://www.newcomer.co/... <- stunning must read. Sad IMHO, but I'm biased. (mostly a big reminder of why I'm very happy no longer to be a journalist)
Elisabeth Rosario / @emrosario: It's interesting that many of the tweets around @EricNewcomer's piece seem to celebrating it as a positive profile piece, rather than what it is - a rare call-out of the problematic actions of many comms folks who protect unethical behavior in big tech. https://www.newcomer.co/...
@adamneumannscos: Much deserved @smc90 an entire generation of founders consider a16z a legacy firm purely b/c the pod. https://twitter.com/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: The glowing profiles of Elizabeth Holmes pre-2015 was mostly in mainstream and business publications, not the tech press. I'm not sure I even knew what Theranos was in early 2015. https://www.newcomer.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours — - Netflix reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and net subscriber additions but fell below EPS estimates.
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Netflix: January 19, 2021 Fellow shareholders, 2020 was an incredibly difficult year with extraordinary loss …
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Tops 200 Million Streaming Customers, Handily Beats Q4 Subscriber Forecast
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Netflix Surpasses 200 Million Global Paid Subscribers At End of 2020
Nico Franks / C21Media: Netflix tops 200 million global subs
Tara Lachapelle / @taralach: Netflix gets to say “I told you so” (for now) My take on tonight's momentous earnings report from $NFLX: https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @bopinion
@seyitaylor: “at least one movie a week for the rest of the year”. It's probably impossible to finish watching Netflix. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Barrett / Always Be Watching: Get ready to watch ALL THE MUPPETS
Andrew Wallenstein / @awallenstein: Updated subscriber totals for all the top U.S. streamers with the new Netflix numbers https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv: Netflix REALLY wants people to know that it will be cashflow positive in 2021. I don't recall bold type being used very often in its shareholder letters. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: Netflix tops 200 million global subscribers
Gregory Lawrence / Collider: Netflix Reveals Number of Subscribers for 2020, Discusses Disney+
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Netflix Adds 8.5 Million Subscribers, Cash-Flow Positive in 2021
Jesse Damiani / @jessedamiani: “The streaming service ended Q4 with 203.7 million subscribers, adding 37 million in 2020 alone. Eighty-three percent of Netflix's new subscribers came from abroad, the company disclosed in its letter to investors.” @jank0 for @protocol https://www.protocol.com/...
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Netflix Hits 203 Million Subscribers as Q4 Earnings Fall Short of Wall Street's Estimates
Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Netflix surpasses 200 million paying subscribers
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: .@Netflix said it has more than 500 titles currently in post production or “preparing to launch.” That includes its massive 2021 film slate of 71 titles — with plans to debut at least one new movie every week of the year https://variety.com/...
Susan Li / @susanlitv: Wow #Netflix ⬆️8% in after hours Cash flow positive in 2021 No longer borrowing money Share buybacks 😱 More #subscribers than anticipated $nflx https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Bilello / @charliebilello: Netflix Paid Subscribers (Millions)... 2020: 204 2019: 167 2018: 139 2017: 118 2016: 94 2015: 75 2014: 57 2013: 44 2012: 33 2011: 24 2010: 20 2009: 12 2008: 9.4 2007: 7.5 2006: 6.3 2005: 4.2 2004: 2.6 2003: 1.5 2002: 0.8 2001: 0.5 $NFLX
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Netflix says it's rolling out a new feature that lets you instantly watch a title chosen just for you instead of browsing. Could help with that feeling of being overwhelmed with options. https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Charlie Bilello / @charliebilello: “Not only did 62m member households choose to watch The Queen's Gambit in its first 28 days (making this show our biggest limited series in Netflix history), but it ignited sales of chess sets and inspired the next generation of chess prodigies.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Tyler Hersko / IndieWire: Netflix Surpassed 200 Million Subscribers During Q4 2020
Ari Levy / @levynews: Based on after market trading, Netflix surpassed Intel to become the eighth most valuable US tech company. (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Facebook, Nvidia) https://www.cnbc.com/...
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Netflix says its “Shuffle Play” feature, which lets Netflix's algorithm choose what you watch next, will roll out globally to all users in H1 2021 — Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Forbes will launch a newsletter service, initially hiring 20-30 journalists to start paid newsletters, splitting revenue 50/50 and giving salaries and benefits — Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue …
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@axios: Exclusive: Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue with the publisher. It will hire 20-30 writers with big followings to get the platform up and running. https://www.axios.com/...
Jon Levine / @levinejonathan: If I'm a writer with a large following and want to start a paid newsletter, I see very little reason to share my profits with Forbes rather than just start a substack https://www.axios.com/...
@jarroddicker: Forbes launches “Substack as Brand”: - built in distribution - hire/advance star talent - 50/50 revenue split on subscriptions creator/brand - ad revenue based on PVs - THIS IS BIG: all revenue guarantees salary minimum, benefits, legal, creator support https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Forbes: Forbes Introduces ‘Journalist Entrepreneurs’ Program, Allowing Writers To Build Enduring Businesses Around Deeply Engaged Audiences
Randall Lane / @randalllane: The @Forbes program also takes care of pretty much everything except the journalism. Marketing, fulfillment, tech, customer service, billing, etc. Most great reporters aren't marketers/GMs/IT experts. We want to empower them to do what they do best - we'll take care of the rest.
Rahul Sanghi / @rahulsanghi1: Wow this is big! Tangible recognition of the changing relationship between publishers and journalists from employer/employee to co-creators. Genuine bell-weather moment for the creator economy https://twitter.com/...
Josh Young / @jny: The Forbes brand will be valuable, and they will offer bundles or other packages that capture brand value, or this will fail If Forbes gets traction, it will interesting how Substack reacts I imagine they are hungry to capture positive externalities among isolated newsletters https://twitter.com/...
David Dorsey / @davidadorsey: @jarroddicker 50/50 split favors Forbes. This is for sharks, not minnows.
Sam DeBrule / @samdebrule: @jarroddicker Wild! But who will own the audience?
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will let journalists launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue with Forbes. Writers who are chosen get a salary, an editor and legal, etc. It's for “people who already have a big following.” https://www.axios.com/...
Randall Lane / @randalllane: Speaking of marketing, as one of the world's biggest web sites, with well over 100M monthly users, we can contextually put our journalists' newsletter offerings in front of the people most likely to subscribe. Audience development at scale.
Alastair Coote / @_alastair: Cynical take: one of the reasons I think email newsletters are so successful is that reading an article on the web is usually an incredibly painful experience. One of the worst offenders: Forbes https://twitter.com/...
@jarroddicker: @avibenhutta it's interesting, Forbes as an editorial brand is ... BUT, it's built a business on contributor networks & it works (revenue + traffic). this is contributor network 2.0 & giving A LOT to writers; all the benefits of a media company + financial upside. idk who owns the content tho
Caroline Howard / @carolinelhoward: Excited to share: @Forbes is opening our platform to journalist entrepreneurs who want to publish their own premium paid newsletters. ‘very appealing for writers looking for more autonomy and compensation in line with their audience and performance.’ 👇🏽https://www.axios.com / ...
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: the hub-and-spoke model of newsletter management is becoming very popular, very quickly! this joins @tinynewsco and @6amcity in adopting a model that gives independent writers the support and resources of a larger organization, for a cut of the money https://twitter.com/...
Hanaa' Tameez / @hanaatameez: “It will be less appealing for writers with controversial political opinions or those looking for no editorial or brand oversight, like Glenn Greenwald, who recently joined Substack.” Via @sarafischer: https://www.axios.com/...
Randall Lane / @randalllane: Best of all, @Forbes gets to hire lots and lots of great, expert journalists, and set them up to make uncapped money while remaining an integral, integrated part of a global newsroom. Know anyone who fits the bill? Send them our way! (end)
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: We are undeniably in a newsletter bubble, but writers getting more of a financial stake in the success of the projects they work on and audiences they build is a good thing https://twitter.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: “Writers will be able to split subscription revenue for the newsletters 50/50 with Forbes. They will also be able to receive a cut of advertising revenue with Forbes, with no cap on potential earnings.” Savvy spot to be in the spectrum of totally indie and a full time staffer https://twitter.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: This seems like a big deal. It's the first mainstream media company that I know of that will actually partner with writers (i.e., giving them a cut of revenue) to launch newsletters. https://www.axios.com/...
Logan Dobson / @logandobson: subscribe to my SubForb. ForbeStack. SoundForbes. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Marshall / @jackmarshall: some possible reasons: salary, healthcare, vacation, legal support, accounting, editing, strategic advice, customer service, marketing, growth tactics, brand affiliation... https://twitter.com/...
Randall Lane / @randalllane: We also offer these @Forbes Journalist Entrepreneurs multiple revenue streams beyond their salary - not just newsletters, but also for $ writing for Forbes (which also happens to be the best way to marketing a newsletter - win win).
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: Forbes Launches Paid Newsletter Platform to Rival Substack, Seeks Journalists With Existing Audiences
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: This really undermines my “journalists don't care about the business model” argument for neutral reporting https://twitter.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: I am somewhat skeptical that people with big audiences will give Substack 10% indefinitely, but Forbes wants 50%. They'll have to give a great deal of upside to your audience to justify that, IMO. https://www.axios.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: Forbes' latest newsletter platform release has a nasty surprise. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad: We are launching a new kind of newsletter model at @Forbes, with the goal of supporting more high-quality journalism! I'm excited to announce that we're launching a Midas List newsletter in upcoming weeks as part of this broader push. via @sarafischer: https://axios.com/...
Nick Brackney / @nickbrackney: Finally a gig economy solution that actually seems balanced. I wonder what this will do to the tech writing community. I've found it harder and harder to get the same volume and quality articles I used to in this space. https://www.axios.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Forbes wants to take 50% of your newsletter subscription revenue. (It'll still serve ads to your subscribers; you'll get a cut of that) Substack takes 10%. No ads. What's the right % of revenue to give to your newsletter software provider / platform? https://www.axios.com/...
Heather Havrilesky / @hhavrilesky: Split your newsletter revenue 50/50 with a 103-year-old publisher because why? https://www.axios.com/...
Seth Bannon / @sethbannon: Everyone knows the nightmare competitor for any hyper growth startup is [checks notes] a 103 year old industry incumbent. https://www.axios.com/...
Randall Lane / @randalllane: Excited for the new @Forbes Journalist Entrepreneurs program, hiring top reporters to produce premium paid newsletters. A bunch of folks comparing it with Substack this morning. Would like to clarify the differences (short thread) https://www.axios.com/...
Wagatwe Wanjuki / @wagatwe: Connecting pay to page views in any way makes me nervous. That means people who cater to whiteness will be rewarded the most. https://www.axios.com/...
Randall Lane / @randalllane: First, the core Journalist Entrepreneurs are Forbes STAFFERS. They'll get salary, benefits, legal support, editorial guidance/editing/fact-checking, if needed. But they also get uncapped upside courtesy of 50/50 subscription revenue split. Best of both worlds.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Forbes launching expansion of paid newsletters
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Adthena, an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform, has acquired Kantar's paid search business; financial terms of the deal were not disclosed — Adthena is expanding its partnership with market research company Kantar by acquiring Kantar's paid search business.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
FOIA Project: in the last four years, the media filed 386 federal FOIA suits, more than during the Bush and Obama admins combined; BuzzFeed News led in filings — More Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were filed during the past four years than at any time in American history …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A decade after the Arab Spring, press freedom progress remains uneven; Tunisia has improved but Egypt is one of the world's most prolific jailers of journalists — Ten years ago last Thursday, the dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia and his regime fell.
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Sherif Mansour / @sherifmnsour: The story of the last decade has been one of an “unprecedented toll paid mostly by local journalists who, in wave after wave, have faced retaliation—many of them because of their role in covering the protests. #arabspring #Jan25 #FreeAlaa #FreeEsraa https://www.cjr.org/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: “Today, we have no reason to celebrate any big successes, but we do have not only the right but the obligation to be hopeful that what we have started will eventually win.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
A look at Blockworks, a Brooklyn-based startup that has a five-person editorial staff and built a podcast network to serve those interested in cryptocurrency — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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Lara O'Reilly / @larakiara: I was interviewed by Fortune for this piece about the rise in crypto news media. Asked whether bigger, established financial news players might like to acquire the newer crypto media companies, I said it was more likely they'd look to poach their talent https://fortune.com/...
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ViacomCBS says it will launch Paramount+, its expanded rebrand of CBS All Access, on March 4 in the US and Latin America — ViacomCBS has set March 4 as the launch date for Paramount Plus, the company's effort to join the direct-to-consumer streaming revolution alongside its larger rivals.
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: ViacomCBS to launch streaming service Paramount+ on March 4, to compete with Disney+, HBO Max
Tim Peterson / Digiday: Future of TV Briefing: Free, ad-supported streaming TV bubble nears an inflection point
Joshua DuBois / @joshuadubois: At some point someone's going to contract with all of these streamers together, bundle into one offering that you can access on your TV, offer it at a discount and create...cable. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew A. Cherry / @matthewacherry: Cut the cord they said. It'll be cheaper than your cable bill they said. https://twitter.com/...
@amodelslife: At this point just combine and make one big streaming app, cause this is annoying https://twitter.com/...
TV Grim Reaper / @tvgrimreaper: AKA the failed CBS All Access, now with Viacom cable shows! And why repeat this PR nonsense? “At present, CBS All Access is believed to have about 8-9 million subscribers.” CBS hasn't confirmed a subscriber number for All Access in 4+ years. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Viacom/CBS will preview its Paramount streaming service 2/24 and launch March 4. Apple, meanwhile, is extending - again - the free trial period for Apple TV+. Now goes till July, presumably hoping to find a second and third Ted Lasso. https://9to5mac.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: The final nails in the bundles coffin Big launch coming March 4th — expect a high profile #SuperBowlLV leading into launch for #paramountplus as it transforms from @CBSAllAccess https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: ViacomCBS sets March 4 date for Paramount Plus launch
Ethan Anderton / /Film: CBS All Access Will Be Relaunching as Paramount+ Starting in March
Shannon Miller / The A.V. Club: CBS All Access to rebrand as Paramount+ in March
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Paramount+, the successor to CBS All Access, launches March 4 in the US, Canada and Latin America
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: ViacomCBS Sets March 4 Relaunch Date for Paramount+ Streamer
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS's new rebranded version of CBS All Access, launches on March 4th
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: CBS All Access to Finally Rebrand as Paramount+ on March 4
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: ViacomCBS Announces Paramount+ Launch Dates
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Deloitte survey in October found 46% of 1,100 people canceled at least one streaming service in the last year, up from 20% in a similar survey 9 months earlier — Say you sign up for HBO Max to watch “The Flight Attendant.” — The eight-episode season concludes, and you browse for your next binge-viewing fix.
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@latimes: Streaming platforms like HBO Max and Disney+ are struggling with a phenomenon known as “churn” Our pal @RFaughnder explains. https://www.latimes.com/...
Michele Morrow / @michelemorrow: @HandsomeWarudo We need to go back to multichannel (or now multi service) bundles, someway, somehow.
@film_girl: Netflix has attempted to conquer churn just by releasing an endless supply of content, apropos of quality, in the hopes that you'd stick around until the flagship series returned the next year.
@film_girl: What arguably makes churn worse is the “release at once” phenomenon, pioneered by Netflix (even though many shows are still written/produced so they don't have to be binge-watched), which lets someone suck in a whole series in a weekend and then cancel.
Stephen Ford / @stephenseanford: We need movie theaters. https://twitter.com/...
@jenosontwit: -Too goddamn many of them, we cut the cable to avoid this shit and now...*hand waves* -Things were better when it was JUST Netflix/Hulu -Too many apps not offering much of anything -Old shows/movies are not as ‘bingeable’ as alot of these companies say or we thought. https://twitter.com/...
@sweetpavement: Aside I don't have time for right now, but one thing that's contributing to my “churn” rate is lack of discoverability. Show me the deep bench of your catalogue with better recommendations, rather than forcing me into your “new” stuff every time I load the app. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Barlow / @mrsambarlow: @awintory TBH I feel like the inertia of not cancelling is currently in their favor. Yes it's harder to cancel than it was with cable, but it's also easier to sign up (and then forget)
Matthew Miller / @matthewmspace: How fast do you cancel streaming services? Hollywood dilemma - Los Angeles Times I think the only one insulated from this is Amazon. Since it's bundled with the rest of Prime, you're probably never going to cancel unless you don't buy from Amazon anymore. https://www.latimes.com/...
Elizabeth Sanders Lafleur / @eslafleur: We pick up and cancel streaming subscriptions all the time. Netflix is the only streaming service I've had without pause (since 2011). https://www.latimes.com/...
@film_girl: But the best way to avoid churn is simply to have better programming. That's what HBO nailed in the late 90s/aughts. But churn was built into the cable model, whereas it hasn't been in pure OTT subs.
Sam Barlow / @mrsambarlow: Welcome to digital, TV! A least you don't have to deal with frictionless refunds! :) https://twitter.com/...
Michele Morrow / @michelemorrow: How many times will this lesson be learned? MCN's and anyone in digital content (prior to the big companies cashing in) figured this out awhile ago. Having exclusive content alone won't keep viewers paying up. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Sharma / @s3rioussam: Anyone who's worked on live or online games could've told you to solve for churn before you did anything, Hollywood. If you're just discovering churn, I'm... flummoxed as to what to say really. https://twitter.com/...
@katchoo1: Uh oh. Long term contracts are coming — either cancellation penalties or (to do it with carrot instead of stick) a lower rate if you agree to sign up for a year or pay for a year at a time. Eventually we'll be back to where we were with cable... https://www.latimes.com/...
Jake Williams / @malwarejake: Literally everyone saw this coming. Beyond a certain point, streaming service subscriptions are a zero sum game. I'm not adding another without cancelling one I already have. Sure, I'll be back when you release the new season of series X, but only for a month... https://twitter.com/...
Bradley Chambers / @bradleychambers: @film_girl For me, a lot of it comes down to time. I've never had less time to watch stuff, but never had more awesome stuff to watch. That is why I love Podcasts and Audiobooks - I can listen while driving, cleaning house, etc.
@film_girl: Ironically, a pre-AT&T HBO, managed churn via HBO Go/Now, which in essence gave up home video revenue to offset churn/compete with other OTT content. The pandemic will be a problem because it created bottlenecks in the amount of new content that will be available.
Lisa Nicole Bell / @lisanicolebell: The problem isn't competition. It's UX + discovery. The harder the viewer has to work to find things, the faster they cancel. Streaming requires more analytical viewer-centered thinking than linear TV. Gotta bring in folks who understand the intersection of UX, content, and data. https://twitter.com/...
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