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Your points about companies splitting TV from newspaper, makes me wonder if we'll ever see a periodical journalism outfit grown out of a streaming provider like Netflix or Amazon Prime.

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You called out Vice News which is already on HBO. I'd argue that HBO and Netflix are rapidly converging towards direct competition in the streaming market.

Yes - they are competing already. HBO Now is out. https://order.hbonow.com/

That's an interesting idea, but again, problem is that most journalism isn't done for video right now (not to say that there's none. There is a fair amount, just definitely not anywhere near the majority of either video produced, nor journalism written)

The bigger problem is that classic journalism of the sort that people lament we don't have enough of is a loss leader. Certainly the streaming services would consider doing something like HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver which is a good example of the news-as-entertainment/journalism hybrids that are probably one of the few things about the (sort of) news business that are doing quite well.

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