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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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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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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.


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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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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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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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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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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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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Kayleigh McEnany's abrupt walk-offs from press briefings is almost pure theater, giving her the last word in disservice to informing the press and public — Kayleigh McEnany's press briefings don't just draw to a close. They tend to end with a flourish — a true walk-off moment.
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Media coverage of the “Defund the Police” debate has turned it into a central 2020 election plot point, reducing decades of community organizing into a slogan — Police abolition has entered the 2020 campaign. — Reporters have some homework to do.
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[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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