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Benjamin Wallace / Vulture:
Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience — The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
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Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Simon & Schuster names Dana Canedy, a former New York Times journalist and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, as its executive VP and publisher — Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the namesake imprint at one of the country's largest book publishers.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Netflix's deep catalog of Black programming is the envy of Hollywood and was largely built after a shift in culture following executive departures in 2018 — The company didn't set out to build a big library of Black programming, but now it's the envy of its rivals.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Colin Kaepernick partners with Disney to create scripted and unscripted content on race and social injustice that showcases directors and producers of color — Under terms of the pact, announced Monday, Disney and Ra Vision will emphasize scripted and unscripted stories that deal with race …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apptopia: Disney Plus app was downloaded 266,084 times in the US, up 72.4% from the average of June's four weekends, driven by the Hamilton premier — “Hamilton” delivered for Disney Plus — with the musical movie of Lin-Manuel Miranda's reimagining of the founding father's life spurring …
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Soledad O'Brien / New York Times:
Buoyed by the public awakening over BLM, journalists of color are sidestepping management to collectively inaugurate their own #MeToo-like movement — We're finally feeling empowered to speak openly about racism in the newsroom. — Ms. O'Brien is a journalist. — Every journalist of color has a story.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Sources: the Knight Foundation considered making a bid for McClatchy but dropped out as it decided that the risk it would take on was too great — But Alden Global Capital would be happy to lend a hand. Plus: When a standstill isn't really a standstill. — The bids are in, and the bankruptcy auction is now on.
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost:
Dow Jones partners with Amazon Web Services to make an archive of five years of English language news from Dow Jones Newswires available on AWS Data Exchange — Dow Jones and Amazon Web Services will make five years of English language news from Dow Jones Newswires available on AWS Data Exchange.
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Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Memo: New Zealand's largest newspaper group Stuff says it is “trialling ceasing all activity on Facebook-owned networks”, as part of the global boycott — Company says it has ‘paused’ its relationship with the social media company as part of global movement against hate speech
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Fox News says it regrets “mistakenly” cropping Donald Trump out of a Getty Images photo from 2000, of him with Melania, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein — Fox News broadcast a segment on Sunday about Ghislane Maxwell, the 58-year-old British socialite who was arrested …
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@kerrymflynn:
[Thread] Media companies that received PPP loans after US disclosed recipients: $5M-$10M for Wikimedia, $2M-$5M for Fortune, $1M-$2M for Digiday, and more — Now that the list of PPP loans is out, we can see which media companies got them, not just rely on owners publicizing it: https://home.treasury.gov/... Already spotted: - Forbes: https://twitter.com/... - Crain: https://twitter.com/... - Daily Caller: https://twitter.com/...
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Business Insider:
Google launches a free digital training program for small and medium sized publishers in Europe, starting with Spain, UK, Germany, Italy, Poland, and France — San Francisco, July 6 (IANS) Google on Monday launched a free training programme for small-to-medium sized news publishers …
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