Your Media Morning: Time Inc’s Content Chief Touts Digital Growth, Apple News Loses Exec to Snapchat, Washington Post Lends CMS Technology to Tronc

THE FRONT THE ATLANTIC'S LATEST COVER EXPLORES WHY SILICON VALLEY IS SO AWFUL TO WOMEN For all the improvements to everyday life that Silicon Valley has enabled, for many women working in the tech industry, things are no better than they were decades ago. WAIT. SAY WHAT NOW? "I have a full time job right now, it's called CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and I don't think the notion of running for president is something anyone considers either on a part time basis or a frivolous way." -DISNEY CEO BOB IGER ABOUT NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT Post it Tweet it Share it Forward it iHEART MEDIA IS LAUNCHING AN LGBT RADIO STATION IN PHILADELPHIA iHeartMedia will debut Pride Radio Philly, the area’s first digital radio station with programming devoted to the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The station will be heard on the iHeart Radio app nationwide, and on Philadelphia radio. YOUTUBE IS TESTING 'UPTIME', AN APP THAT LETS YOU WATCH VIDEOS WITH FRIENDS Looking to turn watching YouTube videos into a more social experience, a team from Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, has launched Uptime, an app that lets you watch videos together with your friends. The app is initially available only for iOS devices. FORMER NETFLIX EXEC JOINS ASIA COMPETITOR iFLIX Malaysian streaming video provider iflix has tapped Sean Carey, a former Netflix executive, as its new chief content officer, the company said in statement on Monday. Two-year old iflix, which has 4.5 million customers, is hoping to be what Netflix is in the United States to viewers in emerging markets, who mainly use their phones to watch shows and movies. AT&T BUDDIES UP WITH MARK WAHLBERG IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTENT DEAL The celebrity arms race between the cellphone companies is getting very expensive. Mark Wahlberg has signed a massive eight-figure deal with AT&T to be its new spokesperson and create original content for the mobile network. Wahlberg’s deal is said to be above $10 million. APPLE NEWS' FORMER MEDIA BOSS JOINS SNAPCHAT TO MANAGE DISCOVER Donna Ogier, who oversaw media partnerships for Apple News until early this year, has joined Snap to work on Snapchat’s Discover section. Ogier’s new title is “global publishing manager” and she started at Snap in February, according to her LinkedIn profile. A Snap spokesperson confirmed the hire and says Ogier will report to former New York Post President David Brinker, who joined Snap in October to run business development for Snap’s content efforts. DISNEY CEO'S WIFE NAMED DEAN OF USC ANNENBERG Veteran journalist Willow Bay has been named the Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, TheWrap has learned. The former co-anchor of ABC News’ “Good Morning America/Sunday” and senior editor of Huffington Post has served as director of the journalism school. VIACOM INSTALLS ITS FIRST CHIEF DATA OFFICER Viacom is looking to expand its data capabilities and to do so they need someone to lead the charge across the company. The media giant announced today that it has done just that naming Kern Schireson its first Chief Data Officer. WASHINGTON POST LENDS ITS PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGY TO TRONC The Washington Post has signed an agreement to license its digital publishing platform, Arc Publishing, to rival publisher Tronc, the companies announced Monday. The Post also said it has plans to open up the Arc platform to all publishers via a self-service platform. Tronc said it will use the Arc technology to help power its entire portfolio of digital properties, beginning with the Los Angeles Times. MARK ZUCKERBERG: FAKE NEWS ACCUSATIONS ARE CRAP "There have been some accusations that say that we actually want this kind of content on our service because its more content and people click on it, but that's crap. No-one in our community wants fake information. There are a bunch of things we can do to disrupt the economics and make it so that the content can't get shared but this is a big issue. We are also victims of this and we do not want it on our service. We don't want any of it." GO INSIDE 'VIACOM NEXT' THE MEDIA GIANT'S VR DIVISION Down a gray hallway is Viacom NEXT, a small virtual reality division formed by Viacom executive Chaki Ng in October 2015. Ng hired 13 R&D engineers from the video-game industry to work on virtual-reality experiments, so that when the time comes, Viacom's VR strategy is solid. But even Ng admits that VR is a risk. CONDE NAST INTERNATIONAL BOSS TALKS ABOUT MEETING HIS WIFE ON THE JOB Speaking at his birthday party at the V&A, he detailed how he met his wife, then an 18-year-old intern, and married her four years later. However, would love have run its natural course if HR had gotten involved in the romance? -Good Media Morning to you   Don't forget to share this morning's issue with colleagues and friends by clicking/tapping the button below SUBSCRIBE

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