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Robby Soave / Reason:
Northwestern University's student newspaper The Daily Northwestern sparks backlash for editorial apologizing for its news reporting that offended some students — The Daily Northwestern is the student newspaper of Northwestern University, which is home to the Medill School of Journalism …
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Financial Times:
The Financial Times names Roula Khalaf as its editor, succeeding Lionel Barber, who will step down at the beginning of 2020 — 12 November 2019: The Financial Times today announces the appointment of Roula Khalaf as editor. She succeeds Lionel Barber, who has held the position since 2005 and will step down at the beginning of 2020.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Q3: net earnings of $319M, down from $488M a year ago; revenue of $3.3B, up 1% YoY; direct-to-consumer revenue from Showtime OTT and All Access rose 39% YoY — The company, led by acting CEO Joe Ianniello, is in early December expected to complete its recombination with Viacom.
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Bloomberg:
CBS acting CEO Joe Ianniello to receive ~$100M severance in cash and equity and remain chief of CBS under a new contract after the Viacom-CBS merger closes
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
ViacomCBS confirms streamlining of its creative units, leading to departures including Comedy Central head Kent Alterman and Media Networks COO Sarah Levy
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Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect — New York (CNN Business)Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps.
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
The Atlantic launches a new, subscriber-only app on iOS, which replaces its previous app; users can pay for it month to month — Two months after launching its digital subscription model, The Atlantic is launching a new subscriber-only app. — The new app, which will be 100% paywalled …
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Artur Piszek / The WordPress.com Blog:
Automattic partners with Stripe to debut Recurring Payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, to let content creators collect repeat contributions — It's hard to be creative when you're worried about money. Running ads on your site helps, but for many creators, ad revenue isn't enough.
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Will Thorne / Variety:
ABC to stop reporting all Live+Same Day ratings except for live events, the second major network to do so after Fox, will now rely on delayed viewership figures — ABC is set to become the second of the major networks to no longer use Live+Same Day figures to measure the performance of its shows …
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The Daily Beast:
Former National Enquirer EIC Dylan Howard proposed $1M+ in hidden payoffs to R. Kelly for docuseries cooperation, according to documents and an audio recording — American Media exec Dylan Howard proposed setting up a shell company to hide the payments for a TV series about the accused pedophile.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil — Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: Newsquest, UK's second biggest regional newspaper group, is a frontrunner to buy JPI Media, though Reach is also still bidding — Exclusive: firm becomes frontrunner to seal deal ahead of Mirror owner, say sources — Newsquest has gatecrashed the Daily Mirror owner's attempt to buy JPI Media …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Apple TV+ head of current programming Kim Rozenfeld departs days after Apple TV+ launch; development, current programming teams to be combined under single head — EXCLUSIVE: Following the November 1 launch of Apple TV+, the streamer is realigning its executive ranks under toppers Zack Van Amburg …
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Barry Petchesky / New York Times:
Deadspin emphasized the importance of what happens off the field since its founding, and Great Hill Partners failed to realize that's what made it so valuable — Deadspin knew that sports doesn't happen in a vacuum. — Mr. Petchesky is the former deputy editor of Deadspin.
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