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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
Sara Fischer / Axios:
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments — The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.
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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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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Though Ben Smith says issues with Farrow's reporting stem from demands of “resistance journalism”, it's the cult of journalistic celebrity that hinders scrutiny — “Is Ronan Farrow too good to be true?” With that question—which, let's be honest, we've all thought at one point or another …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Ronan Farrow, while producing revelatory reporting, often omits inconvenient details in his stories and at times suggests conspiracies he cannot prove
Ronan Farrow, while producing revelatory reporting, often omits inconvenient details in his stories and at times suggests conspiracies he cannot prove
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Scott Nover / Adweek:
Google Preferred to be replaced by YouTube Select, a global offering for premium advertisers with a package specifically for YouTube content on connected TVs — Called YouTube Select, it includes connected TV usage for the first time — Key Insight: — The offering will help Google monetize …
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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 …
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@themediatrust and @raju
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Canela Media launches Canela TV, an ad-supported streaming service with 8,000 hours of content aimed at Hispanics living in the US — Digital media tech company Canela Media said it is launching Canela TV, a free, ad supported streaming service aimed at the 60 million Hispanics living in the U.S.
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PR Newswire and AdExchanger
David Meyer / Fortune:
In case brought by journalists looking to protect sources, Germany rules that intelligence agency can't spy on internet traffic going through Frankfurt exchange — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
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Bundesverfassungsgericht, more at Techmeme »
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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CNN, @richarddeitsch and Awful Announcing
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Lee Enterprises receives notice from NYSE for failing to maintain an average share price of at least $1 and an average market cap of $50M in the last 30 days — Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises, Inc. received notice from the New York Stock Exchange last week that it is not in compliance …