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Joe Bel Bruno

Los Angeles
As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Chron, Yahoo Sports Canada, The Wrap, WLS-TV (Chicago, IL), Yahoo Style Singapore, Laredo Morning Times, The New York Sun and
Seasoned biz & entertainment news chief. Former AP, WSJ, LA Times and Variety.
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Alden Capital's MediaNews Sacks San Diego Union-Tribune Editor After Takeover

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By Joe Bel Bruno
| The Intersect (Newsletter)
All - I will be leaving the Union-Tribune this week. Thank you to everyone at the U-T. It has been a special experience for me and I hope for others as For 13 years, my idea of the company was that we could all work together, shoulder to shoulder, directed only by our shared love of our work, our belief in one another and our ability to lear together. The Union-Tribune is a special place.
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Netflix Posts Mixed Results, But Efforts to Increase Subscriber Rolls Still Spooked Wall Street

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By Joe Bel Bruno
| The Intersect (Newsletter)
The world’s largest streaming service added better-than-expected paid customers during the past three months, much of that from efforts to clamp down on password sharers and convert them to an advertising-based plan. But its business strategy still led to some mixed revenue results — missing Wall Street projections. The company reported earnings of $3.29 a share, a bit better than most Wall Street analysts expected. But, revenue was light — coming in at $8.2 billion vs.
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Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Holds Talks to Sell LA Times to Entertainment Trade Mogul Jay Penske

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By Joe Bel Bruno
| The Intersect (Newsletter)
The people, who are inside both publishers’ inner circles and asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said the owners have held talks about a deal where The Times is folded into Penske’s PMC Media empire that includes Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Variety. It would allow Soon-Shiong, who last week unloaded ownership of The San Diego Union-Tribune to vulture-capital firm Alden Capital, a way out of a legacy news organization bleeding money.
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