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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News president David Rhodes in March; Rhodes will oversee Zirinsky's transition and later have advisory role — Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News President David Rhodes in March, becoming the first woman to lead the storied division in the network's history.
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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to access iTunes content directly via a dedicated app and support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming standard — Coming to all 2018 and 2019 TVs along with AirPlay 2 — Samsung's 2018 and 2019 range of televisions will be able to access …
The Authors Guild:
Survey of 5,067 US-based published book authors finds median author income in 2017 was $6,080, down 42% from 2009; median pay for full-time authors was $20,300 — The Authors Guild's 2018 Author Income Survey, the largest survey of writing-related earnings by American authors ever conducted …
Dom DiFurio / @domdifurio:
Dallas Morning News producer Dom DiFurio says the newsroom has been informed 40 people are being laid off, around half of them from the newsroom — The newsroom just got news that the Dallas Morning News is laying off 40 people amidst a “restructuring”. We're told about half of those will be from the newsroom.
Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz:
Netflix has released about 345 original series, movies, and other productions in 2018, which comes to an estimated 90K minutes or 1,500 hours of content — Netflix released a ridiculous amount of original programming in 2018. How ridiculous? By Quartz's measure, the streaming-video giant put …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Source: Netflix discussed the potential problems Hasan Minhaj's episode would cause in Saudi Arabia before broadcast and even raised idea of scrapping it — Under Article 6, Paragraph 1 of Saudi Arabia's Anti-Cyber Crime Law, the following is punishable by up to five years in prison …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
With new ownership, Fortune seeks to diversify revenue by moving into new markets in Asia, introducing a paywall, and adding new events in 2019 — In 2019, as Fortune looks to diversify its revenue, it will cast its lines for many different kinds of fish. — Armed with new funds promised …
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InsideClimate News:
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards a $1M grant to InsideClimate News and $1M to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — The grant provides ICN critical support for its investigative journalism, national reporting network and student journalism program.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New York Observer's Ben Robinson is out as editor-in-chief after just 10 months in the role; the company says it does not plan to replace him — Observer Media has once again bounced its editor-in-chief — the latest sign of turmoil at the New York publication with ties to Jared Kushner …
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Wikileaks sent a 5,000 word email to journalists telling them not to report on 140 different “false and defamatory” statements about Julian Assange — LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different “false and defamatory” …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Last week, Quartz told its UK commercial team it would be eliminating four jobs, citing a slowdown in 2018 partially caused by Brexit uncertainty — In the past year, Brexit and GDPR have stirred up unusually choppy water for publishers in the U.K. Now, their currents are claiming some casualties.
Lavanya Ramanathan / Washington Post:
What may be lost as women's magazines kill print editions: fact checkers, iconic editors, and outlets for some of the best female journalists — In late November, Glamour came to the same conclusion reached by so many other women's magazines these days: After 80 years in mailboxes …
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