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Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO, appoints Chief Product Officer Greg Peters as COO — Netflix is promoting its chief content officer Ted Sarandos to co-CEO, the company announced Thursday. The 20-year Netflix veteran will join current chief executive Reed Hastings in the role.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
The hedge fund set to own McClatchy cut 1,600 employees and shut down 30+ papers since taking over Canada's largest newspaper chain Postmedia in October 2016 — Since Chatham Asset Management took over Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper chain, 1,600 employees have been laid off and more than 30 papers shut down.
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@jimwindolf, @jimwindolf, @edmundlee, @benestes and @mcguffindavid
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
McClatchy's average daily operating revenue fell 28% from February to the end of May, showing the challenges that newspapers are facing during the pandemic — When McClatchy declared bankruptcy in February, its debts were crushing, but its operating numbers weren't so bad.
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@pohl_jason, @jeffjarvis, @jbenton and @jbenton
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
The Michelle Obama Podcast to launch exclusively on Spotify July 29; show to feature conversations with Conan O'Brien, Valerie Jarrett, Michele Norris, others — The former First Lady is coming to your headphones. — This morning, Higher Ground, the production studio of Barack and Michelle Obama …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump admin orders hospitals to bypass CDC and send COVID-19 info to a database not open to the public, raising questions about reporter and researcher access — Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says outlet publishes too many mediocre and/or long enterprise stories, stories should be shorter than 400 words or 900+ — Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent the following to the editorial staff on Wednesday:
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Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Eleven current or former Ellen DeGeneres Show employees detail a toxic work culture, blaming executive producers and senior management — Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity.
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New York Times:
Deaths, retirements, and exec reshuffling have brought new and diverse leadership to book publishing, many with different sensibilities than their predecessors — A wave of deaths and retirements prompted publishers to name new leaders. Now the industry is in a rare moment of transformation …
Financial Times:
Online ad sales are expected to drop between 19-23% this year, hindering digital outlets from turning expected profits and threatening consolidation — Tougher environment for likes of BuzzFeed and Vice raises prospect of more consolidation — It was supposed to be the year that digital publishers finally turned a profit.
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Ibrahim Hirsi / Sahan Journal:
Profile: Henok Degfu, founder of Ethiopian news outlet ZeHabesha, on his arrests for reporting, escape while facing defamation lawsuits, running pub from Minn — Henok A. Degfu is probably the only editor in Minnesota whose reporters used to file stories by internet, but have now switched to reading him notes over the phone.
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@natocoles and @mukhtaryare
Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
With sports still up in the air, sports media faces unprecedented challenges, as writers pivot to stories on nostalgia and player safety amid looming job losses — When games return this summer, things will look a lot different. Can journalists continue to cover sports like they once did?
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Reporters need to change their election coverage to consider whether Trump could steal the 2020 election and focus on voter suppression and fact-rejection — Donald Trump isn't running anything remotely like a normal presidential campaign. He's not appealing to a wide swath of the electorate.
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Hulu is launching Ad Manager, a self-service tool targeted at SMBs with an ad budget of $500 or more, to make it easy to buy ads on its service — - Hulu is launching a “self-service” tool to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to buy ads on its service.