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So far, mainstream media including Fox News avoid publishing the alleged whistleblower's name in the Trump impeachment probe, amid pressure from Trump allies — New York (CNN Business)Fox News hosts and personalities have been instructed over the last several days not to identify …
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
NYT Q3: operating profit up 17.9% YoY to $44M on revenue of $428.5M with 273K new digital-only subscriptions, for a total of 4.9M print and digital subscribers — Readers continue to shower The New York Times with money. Advertisers, not so much. — The publisher added 273,000 …
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Washington Post Guild newsroom pay study: median salary for women of color is $30K less than white men; men receive a higher rate of merit pay raises than women — By members of the Washington Post Newspaper Guild — Washington Post employees work hard every day to ensure that our company is a leader in the journalism industry.
Reveal:
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that it has been fighting a lawsuit from Planet Aid for the past three years, which has cost it $7M+ — In 2016, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting began publishing stories resulting from a wide-ranging investigation into Planet Aid …
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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
McClatchy launches Impact2020, a $50/year subscription for political news with an outside-the-beltway approach, via journalists in TX, FL, PA, NC, SC, CA, more — New subscription service Impact 2020 will cost $129 per year — As media organizations ramp up their coverage of the 2020 presidential race …
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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Avaaz: false stories on Facebook had 158M views in 2019, greater than before the 2016 election, with 86M views in the last 3 months, up 3x over the prior 3 — Facebook has already powered 158 million views of fake U.S. political news in 2019 and is poised to see an explosion of disinformation next year …
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Fox Corporation beats estimates with Q1 revenue of $2.67B, up 5% YoY, net income of $513M, down from $615M YoY, and announces a $2B stock buyback program — Fox reported its first-quarter fiscal 2020 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, when the evolving company also revealed a $2 billion stock repurchase program.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Roku reports Q3 revenue of $260.9M, above analyst estimates and up from $173.4M a year ago, as net losses rose from $7.9M to $26.5M; stock drops 13%+ — Roku users streamed more than 10 billion hours of entertainment in the September quarter, helping the company to once again rake in big bucks with digital advertising.
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter announces Topics, which lets users follow 300+ subjects in their timeline, rolling out from Thursday; topics include sports and gaming but not politics — Starting with more than 300 subjects across sports, gaming, and entertainment — Recently, a friend told me he wanted to spend …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Researchers: Albany Daily News and City of Edmonton News, two local news sites in the US and Canada with millions of pageviews, are part of an ad fraud scheme — Since 2004, more than 2,000 newspapers have closed in the United States, and many local news outlets are struggling to build a digital business.
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Peter Szekely / Reuters:
Florida county board says it will revisit the decision to reject its library system's request for a digital subscription to NYT, following backlash — (Reuters) - Responding to a public furor, a Florida county board on Tuesday said it would revisit its decision to reject its library system's request …
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Mike Wright / Citrus County Chronicle:
Florida county commissioners block funding for a NYT digital subscription for the libraries; one called the paper “fake news” he doesn't want in the county
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In a wide-ranging interview, Reed Hastings says Netflix's spending on content will grow and defends cutting an episode of Hasan Minhaj's show in Saudi Arabia — Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings tackled a wide array of issues surrounding the streaming giant during a packed 30-minute keynote session …
The Daily Beast:
Great Hill Partners VP Eric Ahlgren, one of two execs heavily involved in the direction of G/O Media, has been removed from the equity firm's website — Great Hill Partners veep Eric Ahlgren, who played a key role in acquiring Deadspin and other Gizmodo websites, has been removed from the equity firm's website.
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Paul Maidment resigns as editorial director of G/O Media effective immediately to pursue “an entrepreneurial opportunity”
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Vox Media:
Vox Media closes its acquisition of New York Media, the publisher of New York magazine and more, and says it now boasts a workforce of more than 1,250 people — CEO Jim Bankoff and President Pam Wasserstein address the newly expanded Vox Media team about the exciting road ahead
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@dcseifert, @bankoff, @kantrowitz, @melissabell and @tyelland
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