Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:10 PM ET, January 31, 2018

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix resumed production of the sixth season of House of Cards on Tuesday, after a three-month hiatus following Kevin Spacey allegations and firing from show  —  Kevin Spacey is out.  Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear are in.  —  The sixth and final season of “House of Cards” …
Vanity Fair:
Alt-right personality Mike Cernovich has made a $500K bid for Gawker's assets  —  A leaked pitch deck shows how Cernovich would turn Gawker into a platform for his media ambitions—and, perhaps, a cudgel to get back at a site that once called him a “D-list right-winger.”
James Warren / Poynter:
Memo: Jeffrey Good, an executive editor at New England-based Pioneer Valley Newspaper group, said he was fired for advocating equal pay for female employees  —  Jeffrey Good, executive editor of Newspapers of New England's Pioneer Valley Newspaper group, said he's been fired for advocating equal pay for women employees.
Darren Rovell / ESPN:
21st Century Fox wins 5-year contract for NFL's Thursday Night Football in deal sources say is worth $660M+/year; streaming rights to be sold in next few weeks  —  Thursday Night Football is changing networks once again.  —  The NFL announced Wednesday morning that the package will go to Fox for the next five seasons.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Director-General Tony Hall says the corporation made a “mistake” in failing to review Carrie Gracie's salary as China editor  —  Tony Hall appears in London's House of Commons in a public evidence session along with other top executives of the public broadcaster and former China editor Carrie Gracie.
RELATED:
BBC:
Speaking to MPs, Carrie Gracie said the BBC offered her £100K in back pay and said she hadn't earned as much as male colleagues because she was “in development”
Columbia Journalism Review:
When CJR asked readers to tell their stories of harassment in the newsroom, 300+ responded - and the magazine has published each one  —  What's come to be known as the #MeToo movement gained momentum through a series of celebrity takedowns, starting with Harvey Weinstein, then ricocheted throughout the media and entertainment worlds.
Agence France-Presse:
Foreign correspondents in China are increasingly facing interference from officials, with 1 in 12 of those surveyed claiming they were manhandled or punched  —  One in 12 correspondents claims to have been manhandled or beaten in 2017, BBC reporter says he was punched
Discussion: @wang_maya
Jim Bankoff / Vox Media:
Memo: Vox CEO Jim Bankoff says company hit its financial targets for 2017, says hiring growth will slow in 2018, and hints at some projects being “scaled back”  —  Vox Media Chairman & CEO Jim Bankoff on an era where quality, scale and sustainability matter more than ever.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
HBO will launch in Japan on Amazon Prime Video on April 1, with the first six seasons of Game of Thrones and ~50 other past and current shows available  —  U.S. pay-TV giant HBO is to license its catalog and streaming rights in Asia's second largest market via Amazon Prime Video.
Discussion: FierceCable
Miranda Katz / Wired:
Podcasters first look at Apple's Podcast Analytics data shows listeners are highly engaged, with many listening to 80-90% of shows, and prefer longer formats  —  The public radio producer had started a podcast as a side project in early 2017, and the exploration of her experience …
Variety:
YouTube TV buys rights to games for Los Angeles Football Club, a new MLS team, with about 18 games to be exclusive on a channel for LA-based subscribers only  —  YouTube TV has secured exclusive rights to games with a new Major League Soccer team in Los Angeles, marking the first time a streaming service …
Discussion: @reshmanuel
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Q&A with Dipayan Ghosh, former Facebook adviser, on how political disinformation is succeeding because of the digital advertising market  —  What privacy can do for democracy  —  As a privacy and public policy adviser, Dipayan Ghosh once worked to improve Facebook from the inside.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:10 PM ET, January 31, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Silvia Killingsworth / The Awl:
An administrative error at Gizmodo Media Group led to newsroom staffers learning that Felix Salmon was earning $400K+ before he left Fusion
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton criticized the NYT over its handling of Glenn Thrush's case, while responding to a story about an aide accused of sexual misconduct
Discussion: @cgasparino
Chad Bray / New York Times:
Private equity firm Blackstone buys 55% stake in Thomson Reuters financial and risk division, valuing the unit at $20B including debt
 Earlier Picks: 
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Journalists who receive anything deemed classified by the government could face up to five years in prison under Australia's proposed espionage laws
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook says it's banning all ads for cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and binary options to avoid “misleading or deceptive promotional practices”
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Study: Twitter cuts into Facebook's lead on traffic sent to publishers; this month FB sent 2.5 visitors for each one Twitter sent, down from 4.7:1 in Oct. 2017
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Sam Charles / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Sun-Times EIC Chris Fusco says Times will not publish anything by Richard Roeper as it investigates allegations he paid to boost his Twitter followers