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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
NFL analyst Tony Romo has agreed to remain at CBS Sports, sources say at $17M per season for at least five years, making him the highest paid TV sports analyst — Tony Romo has agreed to the largest sports analyst contract in TV history, a deal to remain at CBS which will prevent him from reaching …
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Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
The Texas Tribune has hired Stacy-Marie Ishmael as editorial director and Millie Tran as chief product officer — These superlative journalists and inspiring role models will be The Texas Tribune's new editorial director and chief product officer, respectively. We're so lucky to have them on our team.
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Laura Bassett / GQ:
Columnist Laura Bassett accuses MSNBC's Chris Matthews of making suggestive comments in 2016 as she prepared for his show, part of a pattern on and off air — The Hardball anchor frequently demeans women guests with objectifying and belittling comments, both on and off air.
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Byte plans to start paying creators in April, offering $250K in total across four payouts to 100 selected creators, launching a new payment pool every 120 days — For 100 creators to start — Byte plans to start paying creators in April, offering $250,000 in total payouts to the first group of creators in its partner program.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: BuzzFeed seeks an EIC who can improve its financials with potential candidates including WaPo's Margaret Sullivan and NYT national editor Marc Lacey — In early going, BuzzFeed's pool of editor in chief candidates is a serious-journalist A-list. Gentlemen and women, start your memos …
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eMarketer:
eMarketer: in the US, TikTok is expected to grow 21.9% YoY to 45.4M MAU in 2020, down from 97.5% growth in its breakout year of 2019 — More than 20% of social users will use TikTok this year … After nearly doubling its US user base last year, growth for TikTok will slow in the coming years …
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Ian Burrell / The Drum:
How Bloomberg Media is integrating Bloomberg TV+ and QuickTake by Bloomberg into its OTT ecosystem and broadening its appeal to reach younger business audiences — As Michael Bloomberg's campaign to win the Democratic nomination and oust Donald Trump from the White House is taking off …
Reuters:
France's César Awards faced protests and several walkouts as an absent Roman Polanski won best director, in a country where #MeToo has gained little traction — PARIS (Reuters) - Roman Polanski cast a shadow over France's Cesar Awards on Friday even as he won best directing for his film …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Google agreed to a temporary contract extension with Sinclair Broadcast to keep Fox Regional Sports Networks and YES Network on YouTube TV, as talks continue — YouTube TV customers for now still have access to Fox Sports-branded regional sports networks and YES Network …
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
After the Weinstein verdict, Hollywood still lacks useful mechanisms to deal with routine abuse and discrimination, pushing victims to seek remedy via the media — Does Hollywood have the will to create mechanisms to deal with less extreme cases? Or was the downfall of a notorious mogul just an anomaly? …
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
Sources: Bloomberg threatened to shutter Bloomberg View after getting a call from his friend, a hedge fund manager who complained about a column criticizing him — Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid.
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Newsrooms, like WaPo and ABC News, must stop giving in to online trolls using “fairness” and “impartiality” to bait them into failing to protect their reporters — It's time to get smarter about the internet — and fast — In 2018, a reporter at The Verge …
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