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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Interview with Joe Ianniello, president and acting CEO of CBS, who will be named chairman-CEO of CBS after the Viacom-CBS transaction is complete — Joe Ianniello was seen as the odd man out once members of the CBS and Viacom boards got serious about merger discussions this past spring.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: CBS's and Viacom's TV production entities to remain separate for now, with CBS TV under Joe Ianniello, and Paramount TV under Jim Gianopulos — Because they were once part of one media company that was split into two, the newly reunited CBS and Viacom's assets fit together with little overlap.
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Wall Street Journal and TVWeek.com
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Interview with ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish, who says the combined company's “unmatched scale” in content will give it an advantage against streaming rivals — KEY POINTS — ViacomCBS chief Bob Bakish says the newly formed company's vast content library should help it fight off rivals in the TV streaming wars.
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Light Reading and Variety
Wall Street Journal:
CBS and Viacom to merge in a ~$30B all-stock deal, creating ViacomCBS Inc.; Shari Redstone will be chair and Bob Bakish will be president and CEO — Companies seek greater scale to survive in a media landscape dominated by major tech companies and bulked-up rivals.
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The New York Times Company:
Atlantic reporter Taylor Lorenz to join the New York Times Styles desk on the tech culture beat — Taylor Lorenz, who has written extensively on how humans create art, enact society and concoct businesses on digital surfaces and platforms, is joining the Culture of Tech reporting team.
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Longform, @jakelahut, @btaylor, @nycsouthpaw, @jbenton, @caseynewton, @choire, @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz
Pew Research Center:
Older Americans, black adults, and Americans with less education are more interested in local news than their counterparts; older adults prefer TV as a source — These groups also prefer to get local news on TV — Nearly a third of U.S. adults (31%) follow local news very closely …
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Nieman Lab, @tamerzmorsy, @danaeking, @randyludlow, @niemanlab, @johngramlich, @samesfandiari, @pewresearch, @danmcgowan, @pewresearch and @galenstocking
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Gannett and GateHouse parent New Media Investment Group have filed more information with the SEC in a move to address concerns of investors — Gannett and GateHouse Media parent New Media Investment Group on Tuesday released more details of its proposed merger, announced Aug. 5 …
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Washington Post, MediaPost, @rsgaddy18, @amuhs, Rochester Beacon and The Rural Blog
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Sources: when their book deal blew up after sexual misconduct allegations against Glenn Thrush, Thrush kept his advance but Maggie Haberman had to return hers — The first two years of the Trump presidency were a boom time for political books, and one of the boomiest was the deal announced …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, @juliaioffe, @adamweinstein, Jezebel, @dylanbyers, @hshaban, @neontaster and @rosiegray
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.
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@automattic, @reckless, @brizzyc, @reckless, @mathewi and @jayrosen_nyu, more at Techmeme »
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
Glamour's Publishing Director Camilla Newman describes how Glamour went from print-first to digital-first over the past 12 months — It was late 2017 when Glamour UK announced that they were cutting back on print editions. The regular monthly edition stopped, and has been replaced by a 'collectible …
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@chris_mandle
E. Tammy Kim / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at some of the dozens of other prosecutions of journalists in Myanmar that went unseen behind the story of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who's watching out for the rest?
Discussion:
@groundtruth and @cjr
Axios:
A look at the sports streaming landscape, which is growing more competitive even though the rights to major sports are tied up in long-term linear TV contracts — The battle to become the next big sports streamer is underway, but unlike the entertainment streaming wars …
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Behind the rise of “twinfluencers” on social media, as content produced by twins continues to explode in popularity on YouTube and Instagram — Why so many famous YouTubers and Instagram stars are twins — You're not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying.
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@willstew, @morrisanimal, The Verge and @fordm
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