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Sources: Quibi is exploring several strategic options including a possible sale, raising more money, or going public through a merger with a SPAC — Startup founded by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg has struggled to attract subscribers since launching in April
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Sources: an anonymous editor of the conservative website RedState, who called Dr. Fauci a “mask nazi”, is a PR official at the federal agency that Fauci leads — Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health. But he also has another job …
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO trounced Netflix at the Emmys, with 30 wins to 21, as Schitt's Creek won nine awards, likely due in part to a boost from earlier seasons arriving on Netflix — The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist Scott Feinberg dissects the results. — It was an Emmys unlike any other on Sunday night …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Jeff Zucker's role in boosting Trump for better CNN ratings in 2015 and 2016, and how Trump's misdeeds fuel the network's prime-time broadcasts now — The coziness between the TV executive and Mr. Trump is a Frankenstein story for the cable news era. But then the monster got away.
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Los Angeles Times:
More than 50 current and former staffers of LA Times describe how managerial missteps and ethical lapses contributed to anxiety and distrust in its newsroom — On a Friday night last month, Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine sent a short email to the newsroom, announcing sports columnist Arash Markazi had resigned.
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Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Ellen DeGeneres says she takes responsibility “for what happens at my show”, following reports of misconduct, in her first public statement on the allegations — Ellen DeGeneres on Monday addressed allegations of a toxic work environment in her opening monologue …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Sources: Discovery will call its DTC streaming service Discovery+, launching in Q1 2021 to attract cord cutters younger than its linear audience — Discovery is getting ready to officially enter the streaming wars. — Discovery plans to debut its direct-to-consumer streaming service …
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Helen Stubbs / Knight Foundation:
Survey of 20K+ US adults: 80% agree that news media is under attack politically, 36% say the attacks are justified, including 61% of Republicans and 16% of Dems — Americans widely agree that the news media is under attack politically, with four in five Americans (80%) supporting this statement …
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Mel Grau / Poynter:
Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network launches FactChat, the first-ever coalition of major US fact-checkers to debunk misinfo in English and Spanish — The project, FactChat, lead to the creation of a WhatsApp chatbot and two Spanish-language fact-checking units — Lee en español.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock launches on Roku devices across the US; Roku's stock is up 15%+ — Roku today is launching Peacock, nearly 10 weeks after the NBCUniversal streamer made its U.S. debut. — The availability of the Peacock app on Roku devices and Roku-enabled TVs comes …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners — The days of reposting images on Instagram might be over — Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up.
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BuzzFeed News:
How BuzzFeed News and ICIJ analyzed a trove of leaked FinCEN docs that included 2.1K+ suspicious activity reports from banks covering $2T+ worth of transactions — Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion.
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