Mediagazer: 21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey said media companies would continue to consolidate as they battled Google and Netflix over content (Chloe Aiello/CNBC)

8:55 PM ET, October 10, 2018

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Chloe Aiello / CNBC:

21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey said media companies would continue to consolidate as they battled Google and Netflix over content — - Media consolidation will continue as companies compete for unique franchises and greater scale, 21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey says.

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Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:

Teen Vogue has named Lindsay Peoples Wagner, fashion editor at New York Magazine and The Cut, as its new editor-in-chief starting October 18 — Condé Nast has named a successor to Phillip Picardi, who is exiting the publisher this month to lead Out Magazine.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

BuzzFeed hires Disney veteran Eric W. Muhlheim as its new CFO starting October 15 — BuzzFeed has hired Eric W. Muhlheim, who previously spent 16 years at the Walt Disney Co., as its new CFO. — Muhlheim replaces Mark Frackt, who departed as BuzzFeed's CFO in July after more than six years with the company.

Axios:

HBO's four Axios docu-news series to debut Sunday Nov. 4 and continue through all four Sundays of November — HBO will announce today that “Axios,” a four-part series of news specials we're co-producing with HBO Documentary Films, will debut two days before midterms — Sunday, Nov. 4 …

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