MediaPulse | A Weekly Media Round-Up

February 5, 2016/in Featured, Media Updates /by Cision Staff

Here are the top media industry stories we’re following this week:

The Big News:

Ted Cruz won the Republican Iowa Presidential Caucus (The Washington Post), while Marco Rubio emerged as the party establishment front-runner (CNN)
Hillary Clinton edged out Bernie Sanders in the Democratic caucus (Gawker), also there were coin flips involved (NPR)
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in five Florida counties with incidents of the Zika virus (Times-Picayune)

Evolving Media:

Playboy’s March 2016 issue, the magazine’s first of its “PG-13” remake, became available (Mercury News)
Nielsen’s clients continued to call for the company to adapt to viewers’ changing habits (NYT)
Instagram launched its first thriller series, releasing 15-second clips daily through February (The Next Web), and also extended its video advertisements from 30 to 60 seconds (TechCrunch)
The Boston Globe for the first time published content directly to Facebook using the social networking site’s Notes feature (Digiday), and also released an election-night app that refreshes results every 15 seconds (NiemanLab)
Podcast sensation Serial put its current season’s story on hold to revisit the subject of last year’s shows as Adnan Syed gets another day in court (Observer)
The Times of London launched a weekly news app aimed at readers around the globe (NiemanLab)

Ups and Downs:

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced plans to cut costs including a 15% reduction in workforce (WSJ)
The American Society of Magazines held its 50th-annual National Magazine Awards and gave The Atlantic the top prize (Women’s World Daily)
Harper’s Magazine has let go editor in chief Christopher Cox suddenly after only three months on the job over “editorial differences” (Gawker)
Seventeen musical artists saw their albums suddenly go gold or platinum after The Recording Industry Association of America changed rules to include music streaming (Vulture)
The Intercept fired staff writer Juan Thompson after discovering he had fabricated sources through fake email accounts (Gawker)
Reports surfaced of an uneasy newsroom at The Last Vegas Review-Journal including replacing the editor and publisher with reviews of stories involving new owner Sheldon Adelson (Capital New York)

Extra Scoop:

The Cision Blog’s scoops this week include:

Have a great weekend!

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