Mediagazer: Political reporting focusing on predictions instead of issues produces often-wrong conclusions (Hamilton Nolan/Gawker)

10:10 AM ET, February 11, 2016

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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Twitter's problem isn't that it stopped growing; it's that people expect it to keep growing — Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions — Twitter is the world's most important social network. — That might sound like the ravings of an addict …

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNBC, @sg, CNNMoney, New York Times, @neilsandhu, Boing Boing, @jayrosen_nyu and Fortune

TechCrunch:

Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, quarterly revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, meeting expectations — Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M — Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings — one of the most important quarters …

Sean O'Kane / The Verge:

Quartz launches iPhone app with curated news delivered as text messages and push notifications — Quartz's new app wants to text you the news — For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz — the four-year-old business news publication owned by The Atlantic …

Discussion: Wired, Guardian, Quartz, Digiday, @marcsettle, @doingitwrong, @lpolgreen, The Next Web and App Store

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Source: Google to expand right-to-be-forgotten link removal to all domains when viewed from EU, starting February — Google Will Further Block Some European Search Results — Google is about to change how people view its search results in Europe. — The American technology giant …

Discussion: BBC, VentureBeat, Street Fight, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech Times, ValueWalk, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Engadget and Search Engine Land

Noah Kulwin / Re/code:

First Look Media Keeps Building, Adds Comics Site The Nib to Stable of Web Properties — First Look Media, the digital media company funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, has been slowly adding properties and growing its business since launching in 2013.

Discussion: First Look Media, @jeremyscahill, @jessesingal and @mattbors

Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:

Newsweek lifts paywall, retains digital subscription for exclusive and early access to current issue — Newsweek Is Dropping Its Paywall — The Magazine Isn't Dropping Digital Subscriptions, However — How Successful Marketers Prepare for the Holidays

Discussion: MediaPost, Newsweek, @raju, Talking New Media and FishbowlNY

Leo Barraclough / Variety:

NBCUniversal launches Hayu, a reality TV subscription video-on-demand service in UK, Ireland, and Australia for £4, €5, and A$6 per month — NBCUniversal Launches Reality Streaming Service Hayu in U.K., Ireland, Australia — NBCUniversal Intl. has launched Hayu …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, NEWS.com.au, Digital Spy, RadioTimes, Gizmodo Australia, Telecompaper, Digital TV Europe and Guardian

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle — The Reality of Missing Out — When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.

Discussion: Street Fight

Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:

KU student newspaper sues administrators, alleging funding cuts after critical editorial — Administration signed off on cut to fees for The University Daily Kansan — The student newspaper at the University of Kansas sued KU administrators Friday, alleging they approved funding cuts …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, The Lawrence Journal-World, KCUR and Lebanon Daily Record

Todd Spangler / Variety:

MPAA Cuts Deal to Boot Pirates From .Movie, Other Domain Names — The MPAA wants to stop pirates from colonizing the Internet's new frontiers. — The Motion Picture Association of America reached an agreement Donuts, the largest operator of new domain name extensions …

Discussion: CircleID, CircleID, Advanced Television, Domain Name Wire, Indian Television Dot Com, DNJournal.com, TorrentFreak, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Broadcasting & Cable

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Political reporting focusing on predictions instead of issues produces often-wrong conclusions — Political Reporters Know Nothing — I just got back from several days in New Hampshire, attending political rallies across the state and observing thousands of voters in their natural habitat.

Discussion: bookforum.com, @olivianuzzi, @nickriccardi, @ryanlcooper, @yesevamoore, @nickconfessore and @jonathanshainin

Ashley Armstrong / Telegraph:

Johnston Press says it is in advanced talks to buy the i newspaper for £24M, deal would create the UK's fourth largest print publisher — Johnston Press confirms £24m talks to buy the i newspaper — Newspaper group confirms it is in advanced talks with the Lebedev family to buy the tabloid …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers — HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …

Brent Lang / Variety:
Time Warner Q4: misses estimates with revenue down 6% YoY to $7.1B; HBO revenue up 6% to $1.4B; Warner Bros. down 13% to $3.3B