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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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Brian Lowry / CNN:
Nielsen reports 6.1M Emmy viewers, down 12% YoY, as fragmented TV show viewership results in fewer hits for audiences to root for; not broadcast shows won — (The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP) — (CNN)What if you threw a party — one generally praised by critics …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Quibi is exploring several strategic options including a possible sale, raising more money, or going public through a merger with a SPAC — Streaming-video service 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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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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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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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS launches Noggin, its educational subscription service for preschoolers, on Prime Video Channels as an add-on in the UK, France, Germany, and Austria — The add-on offer on Amazon Prime Video Channels “is a key milestone for our streaming strategy in Europe,” said David Lynn …
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Hal Crawford / Nieman Lab:
Australian digital-only pubs say ACCC's proposed regulation will likely destroy media startups that rely on Facebook traffic, while benefiting traditional media — The Australian government's attempt to make Google and Facebook pay for news looks likely to destroy media startups caught …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Q&A with NYT's SVP of ad innovation Allison Murphy about the paper's plans to stop using third-party cookies, its contextual ad targeting strategy, and more — When The New York Times pivoted to prioritizing its subscriptions a few years ago, eventually growing to 6.5 million paid subscribers …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dotdash buys Serious Eats and Simply Recipes from Fexy Media, its fifth acquisition since the beginning of 2019 — Dotdash, the IAC-owned digital publishing company that grew from About.com, has acquired two new digital publishers, Simply Recipes and Serious Eats, executives tell Axios.
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
UK's Film and TV Charity debuts new £2M COVID-19 Recovery Fund with an initial £1M from Amazon and a focus on protecting the industry's diverse talent pipeline — The U.K.'s Film and TV Charity is rolling out a new COVID-19 Recovery Fund that will distribute up to £2 million …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
As a contracting media industry leaves few outlets with dedicated higher-ed reporters, student reporters are holding universities accountable amid the pandemic — In New York, it was the Washington Square News that first reported a covid-19 outbreak in a college dorm.
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