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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 $16M on $12M 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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@tomgara, Talking Biz News, @johngapper, @jbenton, @tomgara and @rafat
Wall Street Journal:
Group Nine has agreed to acquire women's lifestyle publisher PopSugar; sources say the all-stock deal is worth $300M and values Group Nine at more than $600M — All-stock deal values women-focused publisher PopSugar at $300 million; follows recent acquisitions involving Vox Media, Vice Media
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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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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
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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, @awallenstein, MediaPost, The Wrap, @lucas_shaw and @ballmatthew
Hollywood Reporter:
China's censors reportedly scrub South Park clips, episodes, and online discussions from streaming services, social media after critical “Band in China” episode — After the “Band in China” episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government …
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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 Next Web, @loudmouthjulia, Business Insider, MacRumors, BGR, CNET, @kantrowitz, The Streamable, Music Business Worldwide, 9to5Mac and hypebot, more at Techmeme »
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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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.
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
John Solomon, a former columnist at The Hill whose work helped push Ukraine-related conspiracies and was mentioned in whistleblower complaint, joins Fox News — For months, opinion columnist John Solomon has played a central role in stoking right-wing conspiracies about Ukraine's role …
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Washington Examiner, @mikebrestdc, @jkbjournalist, @maxwelltani and Mediaite
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
ESPN to make a daily sports highlights show for Quibi, expected to debut alongside the platform in April; ESPN will license the content but retain ownership — LOS ANGELES — Quibi's latest partner is ESPN. — The sports network, part of the Walt Disney Company, has agreed to join the likes …
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@garystriewski, @grahamstarr, The Wrap, The Streamable and @loudmouthjulia
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As interviewers 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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@markfollman, Politico, @stuartemmrich and NBC News
The Daily Beast:
RealClear Media, owner of “non-partisan” news site RealClearPolitics, secretly runs a conservative Facebook page with ~800K followers pushing far-right memes — RealClearPolitics has carefully cultivated a non-partisan image—while in the shadows its parent company pushes images …
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Gizmodo, @noahshachtman, @murshedz, @davidklion, @jbenton, @downwithtyranny, @joshuahol, @rexhuppke and @thedailybeast
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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Quartz, @stevenleemyers, @liyuan6, @nytimesbusiness, @motokorich, @nytimes, @nkfinney, @liyuan6, @jianglilily, @liyuan6, @franklangfitt and @liyuan6
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