Top News:
Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
G/O employees discuss Jim Spanfeller's dubious hiring practices, apparent disregard for C-suite diversity, micromanagement, and editorial interference — When Jim Spanfeller and a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners took over G/O Media—formerly Gizmodo Media Group—in April …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Facebook says its local news subscription initiative has led to tens of thousands of new digital subscriptions and about $5M in value at 14 participating papers — It's been more than a year since Facebook announced that it would be funding a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator.
Discussion:
@kenherts, @mathewi, @espiers and facebookjournalismproject.com
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN analyst and Playboy correspondent Brian Karem says the White House suspended his press pass for 30 days; CNN says WH cited Karem's dispute with Seb Gorka — Playboy White House correspondent and CNN political analyst Brian Karem said today the White House has suspended his press pass for 30 days.
Discussion:
@brianstelter, @briankarem, The Wrap, Fox News, @briankarem, @renato_mariotti, Washington Examiner, @jenmercieca and @joycewhitevance
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: CBS and Viacom reach working agreement; CBS acting chief Joe Ianniello to oversee CBS's branded assets, Bob Bakish to become CEO of combined company — Working agreement calls for CBS acting chief Joe Ianniello to oversee all of CBS's branded assets and for Viacom boss Bob Bakish to become CEO
Discussion:
Variety, The Wrap, @benmullin, Broadcasting & Cable, The Streamable and New York Post
AAJA Voices:
Data collected from ~150 interns who worked at seven top news orgs shows 65% went to the most selective four-year colleges; NYT, WaPo, WSJ recruited from top 1% — Two out of three summer interns from seven top newsrooms came from among the most selective colleges in America, our analysis shows.
Elaine Low / Variety:
CBS says CBS All Access and Showtime OTT together have 8M subscribers, plans to reach 25M by 2022; CBS All Access will offer at least 12 original shows in 2020 — CBS All Access is ramping up its offerings to at least 12 original series in 2020, said streaming service execs …
Discussion:
MediaPost, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, /Film and The Verge
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Pew: 27% of papers with Sunday circulations of ~50K+ faced layoffs in 2018 vs. 32% in 2017; 14% of digital media sites laid off staff in 2018 vs. 20% in 2017 — If you work at a U.S. newspaper and didn't have layoffs in the last two years, consider yourself lucky.
Discussion:
Pew Research Center, @niemanlab, The Wrap, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, CNN, @moorehn and MediaPost
Luis Gomez / Medium:
Survey of 160 former journalists finds 58% left in the last 3 years, 18% in 2019; 45% had worked in the field for 10+ years; 87% worked in print at one point — 160 former journalists open up about why they left news to pursue a career elsewhere. Here's what they want us to know about the news industry.
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, @tothevictor, @derektmead, @rungomez, @mar_piedrabuena, @rungomez and Luis Gomez
Colin Dixon / nScreenMedia:
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively — New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV.
Discussion:
MediaPost
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vimeo launches Vimeo Enterprise, a tool to allow companies to host, share, and manage video content internally, as it continues its pivot away from content — Vimeo, the 14-year-old video service that started as a platform for indie filmmakers, is launching Vimeo Enterprise …
Discussion:
Advanced Television, more at Techmeme »
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Inside Pennsylvania PBS39's nightly solutions-focused newscast, launched ~11 months ago after the station received $82M from spectrum sale — “It wasn't, like, 'bam bam soundbite soundbite you're done.'” — This was a serious case of lemons and (potentially) lemonade.
Discussion:
@mccanntha, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @frankwords
Reuters:
Turkey's TV and radio watchdog granted oversight of online content, including streamers and online news outlets; providers must now get broadcasting licenses — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Thursday granted its radio and television watchdog sweeping oversight over all online content …
Discussion:
@p_zalewski and Middle East Eye
Hank Stuever / Washington Post:
CNN's overproduced, conflict-obsessed debates were full of cable-news alarmism and resembled prime-time game shows and reality TV, rather than democratic debate — Lately there's a strange caution in the air about the intellectual pitfalls of comparing American politics to the performing arts — or worse, to showbiz.
Discussion:
Associated Press, @jayrosen_nyu, @elaheizadi, Media Matters for America, @heathermallick, @brfreed, Breitbart, Variety, The Week, Broadcasting & Cable and Slate
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