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ARTICLES BY GERRY SMITH

Photo: Bloomberg

Google in talks with publishers to pay for displaying news

1 min read . 14 Feb 2020

Netflix has come under fire from Hollywood traditionalists for not respecting the industry’s theatrical windows. (Bloomberg)

Netflix CEO vows to spend even more on content

1 min read . 08 Nov 2019

HBO plots what’s next as ‘Game of Thrones’ era comes to an end

4 min read . 18 May 2019

An upgraded Apple News app with the subscription offering is expected to launch within the next year, and a slice of the subscription revenue will go to magazine publishers that are part of the program. Photo: AFP

Apple said to plan Apple Music-like news subscription service

2 min read . 17 Apr 2018

The deal for Time Magazine gave Meredith a larger audience to compete for advertisers that are consolidating their spending with bigger media companies, as well as Facebook and Google. Photo: AFP

‘Time Magazine’, ‘Fortune’ put up for sale by new owner Meredith

2 min read . 22 Mar 2018

Univision considered and rejected a $13 billion plus merger offer from Discovery Communications Inc. last year. Photo: iStockphoto

Univision scraps IPO, leaving billionaires without exit plan

2 min read . 07 Mar 2018

Fox preferred to sell assets to Disney in part because it believed that deal would present fewer regulatory hurdles. Photo: Reuters

Comcast is said to be considering renewed bid for Fox assets

1 min read . 12 Feb 2018

A new owner could appease the Times’ editorial workers, who voted last month to unionize and pressured Tronc into replacing editor-in-chief Lewis D’Vorkin. Photo: AP

Tronc to sell ‘Los Angeles Times’ to local billionaire investor for $500 million

3 min read . 07 Feb 2018

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ has been opening worldwide this week with the exception of China, where it debuts 5 January. Photo: AFP

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ posts strong early start at box office

1 min read . 16 Dec 2017

File photo. The final print edition in Europe will be Friday, with the Asian edition ending a week later, reports The Wall Street Journal. Photo: AFP

Wall Street Journal to end print editions in Europe and Asia

1 min read . 29 Sept 2017

A still from HBO’s Game of Thrones which has suffered at the hands of hackers. Photo: AP

Hackers are threatening the way that Hollywood does business

4 min read . 12 Aug 2017

Stamp evolved from media relationships Google already has for another one of its products, called AMP, which is meant to help load articles faster. Photo: Bloomberg

Google is said to work on news product competing with Snapchat’s Discover

1 min read . 07 Aug 2017

Masayoshi Son had previously proposed a deal that would create a new public company to absorb Sprint—the SoftBank-controlled US wireless carrier—and Charter and combine them. Photo:

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son is said to plan direct offer for Charter

2 min read . 01 Aug 2017

The Washington Post and the New York Times have been competing for scoops on the biggest story of the year: the Trump administration’s alleged ties to Russia. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump’s good news for New York Times. Not so much for local papers

4 min read . 10 Jul 2017

Sprint, which has been battling losses, has fallen to fourth in the US market and controlling shareholder SoftBank is keen to pursue a deal with third-ranked T-Mobile that could boost its scale and subscribers. Photo: Reuters

Sprint said in talks with Charter, Comcast on wireless deal

1 min read . 27 Jun 2017

In 2009, Rupert Murdoch had accused Google of stealing articles and threatened to pull his company’s stories from its search results. Photo: Bloomberg

Rupert Murdoch seeks to end Google’s ad hegemony after YouTube boycott

4 min read . 02 May 2017

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced the 101st annual Pulitzer Prizes Monday in New York. Photo: Reuters

Pulitzer Prize: ‘Daily News’, ‘ProPublica’ win public service award, ‘NYT’ leads with 3

1 min read . 11 Apr 2017

US President Donald Trump has given three interviews to Fox News while president, more than any other network. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump’s world increasingly shaped by Fox News, and Fox by Trump

7 min read . 02 Mar 2017

The Airbnb and Coke ads drew the most commentary on Twitter in the game’s first half, according to data from marketing firm Amobee. Photo: AFP

Super Bowl advertisers laud diversity in tense political era

3 min read . 06 Feb 2017

Instead of printing thousands of copies at once like most publishers, BuzzFeed’s cookbook is printed on-demand, one at a time, and can be customized. Photo: Reuters

Delicious irony: BuzzFeed’s old school cookbook becomes a bestseller

3 min read . 05 Jan 2017