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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO and Netflix tie for the most Emmy wins, taking home 23 each; Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won eight awards; Hulu won four — HBO is still the Emmy champion — but it has some company at the top. — The streaming era has already turned the TV business upside down …
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A McClatchy-Tronc merger, with Patrick Soon-Shiong as key player, could see a revitalization in California journalism and tech innovation — One's a family-controlled, century-plus-old newspaper chain, known for believing in its civic mission but not for its digital strategy. The other is, well, Tronc.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Julie Chen to step down from CBS' The Talk but will continue to host Big Brother after CEO Les Moonves' exit amid accusations of sexual misconduct — Julie Chen is stepping down from “The Talk” on CBS, one week after her husband Les Moonves left the CBS Corporation under pressure.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
New York Media names Boris Kachka as book editor as it seeks to triple books coverage across properties with more coverage of audiobooks, genres, and authors — The best house, in my opinion, is a house where books are everywhere: not just on a single shelf in the living room …
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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner is joining Netflix's board of directors — As boss of the European publishing giant, Dopfner oversees titles including Politico Europe and Germany's Bild and Die Welt. — Mathias Dopfner, chairman and CEO of European publishing giant Axel Springer …
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Henry Chu / Variety:
BBC Director-General Tony Hall said repeated cost-cutting and the growing might of Amazon and Netflix were endangering the UK's public broadcaster — BBC chief Tony Hall warned Tuesday that repeated cost-cutting and the growing might of global giants such as Netflix and Amazon were endangering …
Music Business Worldwide:
Leaked email to Dubai ad agency shows Spotify plans to launch across the Middle East and North Africa in November with a new regional headquarters in Dubai — Spotify's next major global move is coming soon. — According to a leaked email, the service plans to launch across the Middle East …
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Pandora releases a custom playlist for Premium on-demand users called The Drop, which features newly-released tracks based on listening history — If you ask Spotify users why they're loyal to the music service, chances are many of them will cite personalized new music playlists like Discover Weekly and New Release Radar.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Ex-ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross talks about the erroneous report on Michael Flynn which led to him leaving the network — Brian Ross resigned from ABC News after making an erroneous assertion about the president. The ensuing hysteria made him feel he had been put ‘on a kind of enemies list.’
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Warner Bros. acquires the rights to New York Times reporter Amy Chozick's memoir about being on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton, “Chasing Hillary” — EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. TV has acquired the rights to Amy Chozick's bestselling memoir Chasing Hillary …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Gawker's owner Bryan Goldberg plans to spend at least $5M in the first year of its relaunch, mostly on hiring editorial staff, some toward media acquisitions — The company is planning to hire “dozens” of writers and editors ahead of next year's relaunch, and is scouting other acquisitions
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Getty Images partners with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200M digital pics for searches on the Echo Show and Echo Spot — On the heels of the Getty family regaining control of Getty Images, reportedly for about $3 billion, the company is announcing a move to expand use of its images to a wider set of eyeballs.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Benioffs are paying approximately 5.76 times the operating earnings for Time Magazine, which is expected to see a 9% revenue decline this year — Marc and Lynne Benioff are paying roughly 5.76 times operating earnings for Time magazine, which is expected to see a 9% decline in revenue this year
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith Corp. has agreed to sell Time magazine for $190M to Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce.com, and his wife, Lynne Benioff
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