It’s prime time for moviegoers, gearing up for the Academy Awards at the end of the month. Many of them are seeing as many films as they want for only $10 a month thanks to a new subscription service called MoviePass. How does it work and why are movie chains so against it?
Frank Pallotta, CNN Money: “MoviePass CEO: $10 unlimited movie service is playing catching up to its own growth”
Sonia Rao, Washignton Post: “MoviePass has 1.5 million subscribers but is it worth it? Where’s everything you need to know.”
Anthony D’Alessandro, Deadline: “MoviePass vs. AMC: Ticket service no longer covers chain’s busiest theaters; exhibitor rips ‘false statements’”
Benjamin Sherry, Investopedia: “How MoviePass makes (or doesn’t make) money”
David Sims, The Atlantic: “Is MoviePass here to stay?”
Peter Allen Clark, Mashable: “The 3 best ways to hack your MoviePass”
Chris Lee, Vulture: “What’s behind MoviePass’s latest power moves?”
Newsweek Management Fired
Gaby Del Valle, The Outline: “What the hell is going on at Newsweek?”
Stephen Rex Brown, Leonard Greene & Graham Rayman, New York Daily News: “Newsweek fires editor-in-chief, deputy editor and 3 reporters in possible retaliation for negative coverage”
Jon Levine, The Wrap: “Newsweek in chaos as top editors, reporters fired and New York staff sent home”
Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed: “Newsweek has fired its top two editors and two senior reporters”
Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post: “Newsweek abruptly fires two top editors”
Mike James, USA Today: “Upheaval at ‘Newsweek’: Top editors fired amid investigation”
Adrienne Jeffries, The Outline: “Newsweek’s headquarters just got a visit from the police”
Ben Dooley, Mother Jones: “Who’s behind Newsweek?”
Inside the Los Angeles Times
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship”
Ashley Boucher, The Wrap: “Los Angeles Times owner Tronc to sell paper”
Ashley Feinberg, Dave Jamieson & Matt Ferner: “Tronc is building a shadow newsroom full of scabs, L.A. Times staffers fear”
Bruce Haring, Deadline: “Los Angeles Times guild demands management answers on ‘shadow newsroom’ operations”
Dylan Byers, CNN Money: “What went wrong at the Los Angeles Times?”
Tim Aragno & Adam Nagourney, New York Times: “A paper tears apart in a city that never quite came together”
Chau Tu, Slate: “The New York Times’ double diss of Los Angeles”
Meg James, Los Angeles Times: “New L.A. Times editor Jim Kirk vows ‘fresh start’ to unify newsroom”
Killing the Wynn Story
Arthur Kane & Ramona Giwargis, Las Vegas Review Journal: “Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “A Las Vegas paper admits it killed a Steve Wynn story 20 years ago. But there’s more going on here.”
Brett Samuels, The Hill: “Las Vegas Review-Journal blocked 1998 story detailing Steve Wynn harassment claims”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “A Las Vegas newspaper killed a story on Steve Wynn. Why can’t anyone recall the details?”
Bringing back the ombudsman
Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review: “Texas Monthly moves to address the ‘appearance of impropriety”
Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review: “Texas Monthly EIC wades into an ethical gray zone”
Sarah Hepola, Texas Monthly, “How Whitney Wolfe Herd changed the dating game”
Politifact Backs Off Plan
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— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 1, 2018
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “PolitiFact bails on Former Democratic congressman as reader rep”
Daniel Funke, Poynter: “PolitiFact hired Democratic and Republican reader reps. Then it fired one.”
Memo Madness
Jason Schwartz, POLITICO: “Conservative media get a jump on memo’s release”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “’Law enforcement officials lied’: Fox News host feasts on controversial GOP memo”
Oliver Darcy, CNN Money: “Conservative media receives key points from Nunes memo before other news outlets”
Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review: “Memo hype reaches fever pitch”
Molly K. McKew, POLITICO: “How Twitter bots and Trump fans made #releasethememo go viral”
Brent D. Griffiths, POLITICO: “Comey memos will remain secret for now, judge rules”
Super Bowl 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbY1tGARUA
Brian Stelter, CNN Money: “NBC blames ‘equipment failure’ for brief blackout during Super Bowl”
Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times: “Super Bowl 2018 Commercials: Advertisers prepare for their biggest stages”
Joe Drape, New York Times: “’The American Dilemma’: Why do we still watch football?”
