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Rani Molla / Recode:
Ampere Analysis: Comcast, WarnerMedia, Fox, and Disney shows make up nearly 20% of Netflix's content library while originals account for 8% — The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours. — Following Netflix's lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business.
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Reddit says it now gets 1.4B native video views per month and serves 13M+ hours of video monthly, up 38% since the beginning of 2018 — Community highlights, best-of's and the top trends for the year ahead — This time of year, there are recaps and best-ofs a-plenty …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
MoviePass is introducing three new plans offering three movies/month, but with restrictions, in Jan, as subscribers decline and cash flow remains problematic — LOS ANGELES — The last year has been a roller coaster with 20 loops for MoviePass and its customers.
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/Film, USA Today, MediaPost, Variety, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The A.V. Club, Gothamist, The Verge, The Week, @frankpallotta, Fast Company, Engadget and The Wrap
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Weekly Standard is dying so its patron, Philip Anschutz, can strengthen his other conservative political publication, the Washington Examiner — Its Never-Trump crusade violated the first commandment of political magazines: Keep your rich owner happy. — Political magazines depend …
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New York Times, @newrepublic, @billkristol, The Week and bookforum.com
Chris Smith / Forbes:
The Players' Tribune acquires Unscriptd, whose mobile app lets athletes create, edit, and publish short-form videos, and which'll be rebranded The Players' Post — When Derek Jeter founded The Players' Tribune in 2014, he did so to give fellow athletes an outlet where they could tell their stories directly to fans.
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PR Newswire, SportsPro Media, SportsPro Media, SportTechie, @roter, @forbes, Awful Announcing and MediaPost
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News in the US and releases specs for publishers for single-topic audio stories — People like smart speakers, but there are a lot of things they don't like about news on smart speakers.
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MediaPost, @niemanlab, @jbenton and The Keyword, more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
Ecuador's president says the UK has provided guarantees that Julian Assange won't be extradited to a country with the death penalty, so he can leave the embassy — QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president says Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Julian Assange to leave …
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BuzzFeed News:
An imposter Facebook account spread early misinformation about the Honduran migrant caravan; Facebook has deactivated it, declines to give account details — Days before the migrant caravan left Honduras, a fake Facebook account was used to try to bolster its numbers.
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@buzzfeednews, @spiccoli, @kenbensinger and @aflores
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Billboard names Hannah Karp editorial director; magazine consulted with Poynter Institute on reestablishing editorial independence from its business division — One of the biggest jobs in music journalism sat vacant for two and a half years. Now Billboard magazine has finally found its new top editor …
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Hollywood Reporter, Music Business Worldwide and @ericboehlert
Alex Stedman / Variety:
No female directors were nominated for the 2019 Golden Globes, which have only nominated five women in the category since they began in 1944 — Once again, the Golden Globes have an all-male line-up of best director nominees. — The nominees, announced Thursday morning, are Bradley Cooper …
Mother Jones:
How Facebook became the primary source and destroyer of news with algorithm changes and inaction on propaganda and disinformation, in favor of the bottom line — Right-wing propaganda is still doing great. Journalism, not so much. — Mother Jones illustration; Getty
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@shananaomi, @clarajeffery and @brendakleong
Richard Conway / BBC Sport:
Britain's big gambling companies agree to stop advertising during live sports broadcasts, including any game that starts before 9pm — Britain's biggest gambling companies have voluntarily agreed to a “whistle-to-whistle” television advertising ban. — The Remote Gambling Association …
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