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Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Profile of Rebecca Campbell, Disney's new direct-to-consumer and international chairperson in charge of streaming, including the global expansion of Disney+ — Rebecca Campbell, whose promotion to Disney's Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer & International on Monday put her in charge of Disney+ …
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@ronadler, @richlightshed and Always Be Watching
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media, which never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016, is on a course to help Trump turn “Obamagate” into the 2020 version of Clinton's emails — It's becoming clear that journalists never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016 campaign coverage.
John McCarthy / The Drum:
Washington Post's Chief Revenue Officer Joy Robins on how the paper is rethinking its revenue model amid a shortfall of display ad revenue during the pandemic — There's a new commercial playbook in place at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post since the lockdown evaporated its usual ad market …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal sued by teledentistry company SmileDirectClub, which seeks $2.85B in damages over NBC News reports in Feb. that the company claims were defamatory — SmileDirectClub attorney was lawyer in suit against ABC News for stories on beef called ‘pink slime’ by critics
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Isabelle Lopez / ESPN Press Room U.S.:
ESPN says original airings of The Last Dance averaged 5.6M viewers within the same day, making it the most-watched documentary ever for the network — Episodes 9 and 10 Also Average 5.6 Million Viewers; Episode 9 Viewership Was Third Most-Watched of Any Single Episode
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@richarddeitsch and Awful Announcing
Jay Peters / The Verge:
BBC is piloting BBC Together, a Netflix Party-like tool letting users host online sessions for watching or listening to BBC content with other users — It's available now — BBC is launching a new experimental tool, BBC Together, that will let you watch or listen to BBC programming …
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MacRumors, Advanced Television and inews
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Data shows 157 newsrooms in Australia have closed temporarily or for good since January 2019, as the pandemic deepens the media crisis in the country — As BuzzFeed News shutters its Australian operation, data shows 157 newsrooms have closed temporarily or for good since early 2019
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
News UK's upcoming Times Radio, which wants to compete with BBC Radio 4 and LBC, says it will avoid the “old fashioned adversarial approach” to interviews — Times Radio will shun listener phone-ins and avoid the “old fashioned adversarial approach” to interviews seen elsewhere, it revealed today.
David Cohen / Adweek:
Instagram introduces Guides, a feature letting creators and publishers curate content on a specific subject, debuting with select accounts focusing on wellness — Creators, public figures, organizations and publishers can curate content on a specific subject
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Bauer Media says it is looking at whether to move ten of its magazines in the UK to a digital-only format, merge, sell, or close them — Magazine publisher Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell ten of its titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over.
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@missbarton and @johnharris1969
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
Reporter describes being under surveillance and investigation by the US government after receiving documents from Snowden and how it affected his personal life — “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud.
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