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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month — For a period of one month in the United States — WarnerMedia is pushing even more aggressively into streaming by releasing every single movie in 2021 simultaneously on HBO Max.
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Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable:
HBO Max removes its free trial option ahead of the release of Wonder Woman 1984 on Dec. 25, mirroring a step Netflix and Disney+ have taken before big releases — It looks like there is a new trend emerging as HBO Max joins the list of streaming services doing away with the free trial option.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief of Condé Nast's Wired magazine, has been hired as the new CEO of The Atlantic, starting in February — Nicholas Thompson is leaving Condé Nast for the top business job at the venerable publication owned by Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective.
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Clare Jim / Reuters:
HK activist Jimmy Lai has been charged with fraud over the lease of the building that houses his Apple Daily paper; its daily operations shouldn't be impacted — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was denied bail on Thursday on a charge …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Interview with Jarrod Dicker, WaPo's VP for commercial technology, about its revenue platform Zeus, which has signed up 100+ websites in its first year — Since the global financial crisis, news publishers - many hit by crippling revenue declines - have made several failed attempts to pool …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
White House communications director Alyssa Farah has resigned; she plans to start a consulting firm focusing on the corporate, political, and defense realms — White House communications director Alyssa Farah resigned from her post Thursday after three-and-a-half years in the Trump administration.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Meredith promotes Catherine Levene to president of the National Media Group where she will oversee print and digital magazines and associated consumer products — For the first time in its 119-year history, media giant Meredith Corp. has tapped a female executive to lead …
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Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America:
Daily interactions with right-leaning pages on Facebook fell only 6% in the 20 days post-election vs. 20 days before despite reports of an adjusted algorithm — After the election, the platform had reportedly decided to elevate established news outlets and reduce visibility of right and left-leaning pages.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed names Janet Rollé, general manager of Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment, to its board, and Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon steps down as a director — Janet Rollé, general manager of Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment, is joining BuzzFeed's board of directors …
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Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:
MTV says it's committing $250M over the next three years to fostering content “led and produced by BIPOC- and woman-owned and -operated companies” — The intiative aims to generate unscripted content as well as to provide funding, infrastructure, services and staff.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Dan Le Batard, the ESPN radio talk-show host who openly challenged ESPN's policy to avoid political topics, is leaving the network after nearly a decade — Dan Le Batard, the popular and opinionated ESPN talk-show host, is walking away from the sports-media giant after working there in various capacities for nearly a decade.
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Ethan Jakob Craft / Ad Age:
BIA Advisory Services: local ad revenue in the US to grow 2.5% YoY in 2021, of which 17% each will be mobile and online advertising, 11.4% local TV, 9.2% radio — Direct mail will have the lion's share of local spend, while OTT and connected TV may prove to be game-changers next year, BIA Advisory Services forecasts
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