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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Quartz to search for new editor-in-chief as Kevin Delaney steps down; co-founder Zach Seward to replace Delaney and Jay Lauf as CEO, Katie Weber named president — Kevin Delaney is leaving the business media organization — Quartz co-CEO and editor in chief Kevin Delaney …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Filings: Quartz lost more than $24M on $18M in revenue through the first six months of this year — Kevin Delaney co-founded the digital publication in 2012. — Kevin Delaney, the editor in chief of Quartz and one of the digital publication's co-founders is stepping down as part of a shake-up of the company's leadership.
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Talking Biz News, Politico and @rafat
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
NBC Entertainment co-chairman George Cheeks shifts to vice chairman of NBCUniversal Content Studios in major restructure, leaving Paul Telegdy as sole chairman — NBCUniversal is making sweeping changes, restructuring its broadcast, studio and digital operations and assigning new roles …
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Variety, Observer and Broadcasting & Cable
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Matt Strauss to run NBCU's Peacock, replacing Bonnie Hammer, who now oversees Content Studios, a consolidation of Universal TV and Universal Content Productions — Comcast's Matt Strauss will take over as the head of the streamer, while George Cheeks moves to become vice chair at the studios …
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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, The Wrap, @ballmatthew, @awallenstein and @lucas_shaw
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
First excerpt from Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill describes how private investigators working for Harvey Weinstein surveilled Farrow and NYT's Jodi Kantor — How two operatives tasked with surveilling reporters became embroiled in an international plot to suppress sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
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@ronanfarrow, The Independent, The Week, The Daily Beast, @michaelluo, @razhael, @janemayernyer, @rohded, @newyorker, @kaibiermann, @josephfcox, @will_bunch, @rohded, @brianstelter, @dabeard, @seanlavery and Variety
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Facebook agrees to pay $40M in proposed settlement with several advertising agencies that claimed the company misstated video metrics by 150-900% — Advertisers would collect the bulk of the money after alleging Facebook inflated the average time users viewed video on the platform.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As interviews get more insistent, the White House isn't sending their usual representatives to Sunday shows, instead seeking to get their message out via ads — On Sunday's “Meet the Press,” NBC News moderator Chuck Todd was insistent. — He had asked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) …
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@stuartemmrich
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee — Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous …
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The Streamable, Music Business Worldwide, CNET, @loudmouthjulia, MacRumors, @kantrowitz and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
FreeTime Unlimited, Amazon's subscription service with curated content for kids that starts at $2.99 per month for Prime users, launches on Fire TV — Amazon is bringing its Freetime kids service to Fire TV, starting with its Fire TV stick devices: The app allows parents to set age limits …
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TechCrunch and The Streamable
Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Tinder debuts Swipe Night, a choose-your-own adventure series inside its app with weekly episodes, and hopes to match users based on their in-game choices — Dating apps are often compared to bars where everyone is single. Now one of the biggest, Tinder, is literally casting itself as a party where all your friends are gathered.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How rumors about Biden and Ukraine began with a dark-money group and a Peter Schweizer book before hitting Fox News, mirroring the path of Clinton Cash theories — How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump's impeachment.
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The Nation, @stuartpstevens, @pastpunditry, @jonlemire and @kgvseb
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Interview with David Muir of World News Tonight, now one of ABC's most-watched programs, on reaching people via Instagram or Hulu as well as gaining TV viewers — Here's some news David Muir probably won't deliver on ABC: In recent months, his “World News Tonight” has become …
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@spj_tweets
BBC:
Ofcom says Naga Munchetty did not breach its rules around impartiality, criticizes BBC's “lack of transparency” around the original ruling — Media watchdog Ofcom has said it has “serious concerns around the transparency of the BBC's complaints process” following its handling of the Naga Munchetty case.
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Press Gazette
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Interview with the Daily Mail Editor Geordie Greig on changing tack on Brexit, overtaking Murdoch's The Sun, his first year since replacing Paul Dacre, and more — There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop: “popularity”.
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@rasmus_kleis, @henrymance, @greenslader, @ppls2ndref, @henrymance, @kadhimshubber, @miketomillar, @financialtimes and @barneyfarmer
Li Yuan / New York Times:
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people — Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
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@stevenleemyers, @liyuan6, @nytimesbusiness, @motokorich, @nytimes, @nkfinney, @liyuan6, @jianglilily, @liyuan6, @franklangfitt and @liyuan6