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Telemundo chief Cesar Conde to oversee NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC as chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, succeeding Andy Lack, who will be leaving the company — NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is reorganizing his senior leadership team at the company, marking the first major executive restructuring …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Andy Lack was blindsided by the NBC News restructuring announcement, that also put Noah Oppenheim, who was expected to succeed Lack, on shaky ground — Now that Andy Lack is leaving NBC sooner than expected, embattled news exec Noah Oppenheim is “the big loser” and is likely on the outs, sources told The Daily Beast.
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Mark Lazarus to oversee all of NBCUniversal's entertainment TV operations, including the Peacock streaming service, as part of a massive company-wide reorg — Mark Lazarus will assume oversight of all of NBCUniversal's entertainment TV operations as part of a massive company-wide resturcturing.
Ren LaForme / Poynter:
List of winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, including The Courier-Journal in Kentucky, The Baltimore Sun, NYT, WaPo, Reuters, Anchorage Daily News, and others — The winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes are being announced in atypical fashion Monday afternoon.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica were awarded the Pulitzer for public service, at a time when local journalism is in crisis, and NYT won three prizes — The Pulitzer board makes The Times a winner in three categories. The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica take a major prize at a time when local journalism is in crisis.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Sources: investor group aligned with Donald Trump Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family is buying a ~$200M stake in One America News Network to rival Fox News — Possibly hedging against a 2020 loss, the Trump family builds ties to a network that's much more loyal than Fox.
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VICE:
TikTok stars, many of them young and holding down other jobs, are struggling to make money, despite millions of views, due to a lack of monetization tools — This story is part of the VICE guide to 2030. Reach more here. — Keondra is 20 years old, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Profile of Rich Jackson, who led Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana until being let go on Wed. and is now living in a Motel 6, blogging as The Homeless Editor — A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it. He moved to a Motel 6.
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Google responds to Australia's plan to force online platforms pay for news content, arguing search results are like publishers' posters in a newsagent's window — Google Australia responds to government's move to force it to pay for content by arguing it provides publishers with free advertising
News Corp:
Almar Latour, Barron's Group publisher and EVP at Dow Jones, appointed by News Corp to be Dow Jones' CEO and The Wall Street Journal's publisher starting May 15 — News Corp announced today the appointment of Almar Latour as the new Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN parent company WarnerMedia sends a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over new ad that WarnerMedia claims deceptively misuses CNN news coverage — New York (CNN Business)A lawyer for CNN's parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trump's …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Source: Pluto TV and Verizon signed a streaming distribution deal spanning pay TV, connected TV, and mobile — EXCLUSIVE: Pluto TV and Verizon are breaking some new ground in streaming, unveiling what they call the industry's first comprehensive distribution deal spanning pay-TV, connected TV and mobile, Deadline has learned.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
FuboTV says it had 315K paid subscribers, up 37% YoY, at the end of 2019 and revenue of $146.5M, up 75% YoY — As part of their first shareholders letter, after merging with FaceBank Group in March, fuboTV disclosed subscriber metrics for the first time since October 2018 when they shared …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Quibi's lackluster launch is a cautionary tale: investors poured $2B into a mediocre platform with weak content that fosters no sense of community — As you may have heard (and may still being bombarded by ads for) recently, a new video streaming service called Quibi launched to much fanfare.
Ted Sarandos / Los Angeles Times:
Ted Sarandos on what Netflix has learned about film and TV production during the pandemic, as the company continues filming in South Korea, Japan, and Iceland — Like workers in other sectors, many people in the television and film industry in California have been devastated by the coronavirus shutdowns.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A reflection on the diminished power of local newspapers, 50 years after Kent State's Akron Beacon Journal chronicled the death of four Vietnam protestors — Robert Giles, the second-in-command at the Akron Beacon Journal during a fateful moment 50 years ago, recalls what his boss said as he left …
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