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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Canada's Rogers Communications has terminated a $100M joint venture with Vice Media, which includes a Viceland Canada 24-hour cable channel — The Canadianized TV channel from New York City-based Vice Media has been bleeding revenue and subscribers. — Canadian cable and mobile giant …
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CBC News, @seyitaylor and @jeremymbarr
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Profile of Glenn Greenwald, who is consistently skeptical of Trump-Russia ties and DC power structures, and who now positions himself as a fierce media critic — It's 10:45 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Dan Rather, 86, to launch a weekly half-hour show, The News With Dan Rather, with The Young Turks Network starting Monday, aiming to add context to news — Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather wasn't too familiar with The Young Turks Network when he took a meeting …
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TVNewser, @tammy, Ad Age, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @danrather and Mediaite
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Profile of Robyn Tomlin, recently named McClatchy's regional editor overseeing eight newspapers in the Carolinas — Robyn Tomlin remembers, all too well, the high school teacher who tried to persuade her to drop out of school. — “She basically told me I didn't belong there anymore,” Tomlin said.
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@johnghendy, @jenniferpreston, @johnrobinson, @ckrewson, @mwilstory, @sulliview, @richardwike, @shanbow, @robyntomlin and @melaniesill
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more — Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.”
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@sulliview, Vanity Fair, Recode, MediaNama, Wall Street Journal, @rasmus_kleis, @pohl_jason, Shelly Palmer, BuzzFeed, Salon, Fortune, @johnbattelle, CNET, @kreissdaniel, @kreissdaniel, @25lettori, @scout_finch, @gaberivera, @willoremus, @craignewmark, @emilybell, Business Insider, @nytimestech, @sashak, @maghielse, @rasmus_kleis, Vox and BetaNews, more at Techmeme »
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: YouTube Live has ~300,000 subs, and Hulu's Live TV service has ~450,000; both services trail DirecTV Now and Dish Sling, which have millions of subs — - Hulu and YouTube both launched live TV services last year, in an effort to take on cable channels.
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The New York Observer, Multichannel News, Fast Company, MacRumors and Decider, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News show “Media Buzz”, is releasing a tell-all book on chaos inside the White House, to hit stores January 29 — In late July, the White House had just finished an official policy review on transgender individuals serving in the military and President Trump …
Pavlena Todorova / Press Gazette:
Journalist James O'Brien steps down from role at BBC Newsnight, citing reluctance to stop criticizing Brexit and Trump — James O'Brien has parted ways with BBC's Newsnight. — The broadcaster is an open critic of Brexit and US President Donald Trump, views which he airs on his daily LBC radio show.
Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Marshall Project's staff survey shows 43% of editorial staff identifies as black, Asian, Latino, or of two or more races, and women make up 48% of newsroom — Simone Weichselbaum, staff writer and diversity chair at The Marshall Project. Courtesy photo.
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@rachelsilby and @karenkho
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Digital First Media's Denver Post launches $11.99 per month paywall after taking down previous paywall in 2015 — THIS WEEK, DENVER POST STAFFERS rallied around their paper's new $11.99-per-month paywall, optimistic that the move might bring more resources to a beleaguered Post newsroom.
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@coreyhutchins, @davidsirota and @davidsirota
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Vice Media will investigate allegations by ex-TV host Billie Porter that her then boss at Vice gave her alcohol and drugs as a minor, requested sexual act — Porter says in online post that unnamed boss asked for sex and plied her with alcohol and drugs — Vice Media will investigate …
Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:
A look at the rise and fall of Louise Mensch, Eric Garland, and other members of the citizen-journalist platoon that promoted Trump-Russian conspiracy theories — A year later, why does anyone still listen to Seth Abramson? — A year ago, as Donald Trump prepared to take office …
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