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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
SEC filing: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board — LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive and chairman, has resigned from the board of Apple, whose growing Hollywood operation would have made it harder for him to fully engage as one of its directors.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14 — This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. — TRENDING NOW — Subscribe to CNBC PRO Licensing & Reprints Join the CNBC Panel Supply Chain Values Advertise …
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Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
A look at the uncertain future of Vice News, amid key staff departures, tighter budgets, and lower valuation for Vice overall — On the third Friday in August, Jesse Angelo, the longtime News Corp executive hired in June as president of global news and entertainment at Vice Media …
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Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Disney is mimicking Netflix in offering TV producers and others profits sooner in exchange for backend revenue, the first legacy media company to do so — Walt Disney Co., which became a dominant player in television production with its acquisition of Fox assets earlier this year …
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
AT&T's WarnerMedia signs an exclusive five-year deal with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot for TV, film, and streaming projects; sources: deal is worth ~$250M
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
BuzzFeed files motion to quash subpoenas for reporter Ryan Mac to testify in a defamation lawsuit against Elon Musk, accuses Musk of harassment and intimidation — The media outlet accused the tech billionaire of harassing and intimidating a reporter for printing unguarded comments Musk made accusing a critic of being a pedophile.
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Nate Berg / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the ways in which magazines were designed for interaction in the past, and how The New York Times for Kids monthly is continuing the tradition — Later this year, DC Entertainment will stop regularly publishing Mad magazine, the humor publication founded in 1952.
Sarah Armour-Jones / Media Impact Funders:
Study: philanthropy focused on journalism has nearly quadrupled since 2009, and community foundations have given $17M to investigative reporting since then — Reports from the Field — IssueLab, a service of the Foundation Center, is a searchable, curated collection of reports that provide users with a deep dive into social issues.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube says it will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, instead calculating rankings based only on organic plays — YouTube will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, the company announced this morning.
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Andrea Watson Strong / Facebook Journalism Project:
Facebook expands Today In, its local info service, to 6K+ US towns; it now works with 1.2K local news orgs with local news Page interactions up 26% YoY — Continuing our journey to connect people with community information and conversations they care about.
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Maryam Saleh / The Intercept:
Nonprofit group Define American and Media Cloud find a rise in the use of quotes from extremist groups, without context, in a study of immigration reporting — The Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right, anti-immigrant group, was frequently cited by major U.S. newspapers in the first two years …
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What's New in Publishing:
IAB Europe: programmatic revenue grew by 33% YoY in 2018 to €16.7B, with 70%+ of display and 50%+ of video ads traded via programmatic methods — IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, today announced the launch …
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@tpadvisory and The Drum
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
CNN says it will no longer let vaping products like Juul advertise on the network, but may reconsider later if research shows vaping products are not harmful — The company confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday that it will no longer allow vaping products to advertise on the network.
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@7im, @lungassociation, @tobaccofreekids, @oliverdarcy, @maxwelltani and The Verge
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