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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Barack and Michelle Obama sign multiyear deal with Netflix to produce TV shows and films for the streaming service, from scripted series to documentaries — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix in which he and the former …
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Business Insider:
How Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou broke the story about the Theranos scandal, a subject he has since penned a book on — - The Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou knew from his first phone call with a Theranos insider that he had a great story.
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New York Times, @slopeofhope and Fast Company
John Bonazzo / The New York Observer:
Interview Magazine, founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol, folds following wage disputes with former employees and several harassment charges — After almost 50 years, Interview magazine is shutting down. — Several staffers posted on Twitter this morning that the magazine had folded.
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New York Post, @peterdaou, @staceykanderson and Pitchfork
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TheSkimm, a digital-media company built on a daily newsletter aimed at millennial women, closes $12M Series C from Shonda Rhimes, Tyra Banks, others — Willow Bay, Jesse Draper, Linnea Roberts, Hope Taitz are also among female-focused media firm's new backers
Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Profile of Charlie LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-NYT correspondent who covered overlooked people before leaving journalism to work in a hot dog joint — Charlie LeDuff anticipated all the problems that Trump's election made plain to the rest of us—then he fell into the Hole himself.
New York Times:
More than two dozen editors and writers who worked at Time Inc. reflect on the company's rise to prominence and its slow decline that began about a decade ago — It was once an empire. Now it is being sold for parts. — Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Analysis: Amazon Channels, which resells subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, and others, now accounts for 55% of à la carte direct-to-consumer video subscriptions — Amazon has quietly become a major player in the subscription video sales business: Amazon Channels, the company's platform …
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Fortune, @richbtig, FierceCable and @simonkhalaf
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Q&A with Chad Nackers, editor-in-chief of The Onion, on how the site satirizes the Trump administration — The comedy website has had to develop new strategies and new characters for a president who often defies satire. — A lot has changed since 2013, when the editors of The Onion got …
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@politico, @andrewrestuccia and @anniekarni
Brady Dale / CoinDesk:
VideoCoin, blockchain-based video streaming project backed by CNET co-founder Halsey Minor, raises $50M in an ICO completed via private placements — Streaming a TV show or a sports game directly to your laptop doesn't make big TV networks much money today.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The Pulitzer Prize Board has yet to conduct its independent review of allegations made against board member Junot Diaz — As was widely expected, the Pulitzer Prize Board gave its top honor, the Public Service award, to The New York Times and The New Yorker for their Harvey Weinstein exposes …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
In speech to Yale students at weekend, Hillary Clinton urged students to fight back against fake news by supporting journalists and subscribing to newspapers — Hillary Clinton spoke at Yale University's commencement ceremony this weekend to offer her support for the media …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Vox Media's Jim Bankoff on the challenges facing digital media companies, partnering with Hollywood, and the growth of podcasting — The New York-based exec also opens up about what he learned when the dotcom world went belly-up. — As an AOL executive in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech — A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.
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@hctechburger, @albertonardelli, @melissakchan, @abusulayman, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimes and @danielsilvabook
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