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BBC reports Chris Evans is highest paid star, receiving £2.2M-£2.25M last year, while Claudia Winkleman, BBC's highest paid female, earned between £450K-£500K — Chris Evans has topped the list of the BBC's best-paid stars. — He made between £2.2m …
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Scott Bryan / BuzzFeed:
BBC's list of 96 stars earning more than £150K shows little diversity with 34 females, six black or mixed race, and four Asians — Chris Evans has been revealed as the highest-paid BBC star, earning nearly £2.25 million in the last year. — The BBC has been forced to reveal …
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Financial Times, The Guardian, Forbes, @rachaelkrishna, @beebabs, @stuartmillar159, @caromeldrum, @moorehn and @nycjim
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Google rolls out news feed in its iOS and Android search app, similar to Twitter and Facebook streams, aims to surface relevant content for users — Searching for relevance — Google today is rolling out its take on the news feed, a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other content.
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Google, The Wrap, NPR, RAPPLER, socialbarrel.com, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A look inside NBC News new twice-daily news show on Snapchat, “Stay Tuned”, which is aimed at younger viewers who no longer watch traditional TV — NBC News is bringing news broadcasts to Snapchat, the company announced today, with the launch of a twice-daily headline news show it's calling “Stay Tuned.”
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Nieman Lab, Axios, Recode, Engadget, Fortune and Refinery29, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Discovery Communications in talks to combine with Scripps Networks Interactive, reviving merger discussions that were abandoned in 2014 — Media companies previously explored tie-up, but abandoned effort in 2014 — Discovery Communications Inc. DISCB 4.11% is in talks to combine …
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Multichannel News, New York Times, Reuters, Recode, The Wrap, Variety, Financial Times, CNBC, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and TVWeek.com, more at Techmeme »
Leon Lazaroff / TheStreet:
Facebook says it will start testing a subscription service with publishers in October, offering 10 articles free before prompting users to buy subscriptions — Facebook Inc's (FB) Campbell Brown says the world's largest social media platform has heard the cries of news publishers, and it's taking action.
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VideoInk - Medium, Adweek, TechCrunch, @mikeisaac, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge and @leonlazaroff, more at Techmeme »
The Wrap:
Sources: 21st Century Fox settled 1998 claim of sexual misconduct against then-Fox Sports chair David Hill, who left in 2015 but still produces events — 21st Century Fox paid off a woman who accused former top executive David Hill of sexual misconduct while he ran Fox Sports …
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Media Matters for America, @gabrielsherman and @davidfolkenflik
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Maria Ressa, CEO of Philippines-based news org Rappler, says Facebook “broke democracy” in 2016, discusses impact of platforms on elections, more — “It's still an empowering platform. I will not take that away from them. But people who deal with the algorithms have to work hand …
Josh Levin / Slate:
Q&A with Jim DeRogatis, the reporter behind BuzzFeed's R. Kelly story who has been covering allegations of sexual abuse against the singer for nearly 17 years — On Dec. 21, 2000, Jim DeRogatis and Abdon M. Pallasch wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that “R. Kelly used his position of fame …
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
BuzzFeed launches 2-4 minute morning audio briefing, “Reporting to You”, for hands-free audio speakers like Amazon Alexa — Instead of waking up and checking their phones for the latest push notifications, newsletters or podcast episodes, BuzzFeed's audience can now just ask for the morning's top news.
Benedict Evans:
As tech platforms experiment with TV content, a look at how corporations controlling music and ebooks lost their strategic value to tech companies — People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer.
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@thadmcilroy, @pakman and @donaldrichard
Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
Boston Globe CEO Doug Franklin quits after seven months, cites strategic differences with publisher; exec VP, CFO Vinay Mehra becomes president, remains CFO — Boston Globe chief executive officer Doug Franklin stepped down Tuesday morning, less than seven months into the job …
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WGBH News, Media Nation, Boston Herald, Union-News, WBUR, Boston Business Journal and Dan Kennedy, Thanks:@curtwoodward
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Why Trump's campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of his political style: display of dominance, the need for an enemy, his base loves it — Donald Trump's so-called “war with the media” is a good example of what philosophers mean by an over-determined effect: multiple causes …
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@kensmith and @milesgrant
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Even after Trump Jr.'s emails, President Trump's fake-news defense will persist because it works among Trump's base
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@newhousesu and @dabeard
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