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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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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on the logic behind simultaneous release of movies to HBO Max and theaters, economic fallout for talent, and Roku progress — You can see all of Warner Bros.' movies on HBO Max next year — on the same day they come to theaters.
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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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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC News layoffs began Thursday as part of broader Disney restructuring, with other cuts in Disney's Television Group in its General Entertainment Content unit — Layoffs were taking place on Thursday at ABC News as part of a restructuring and job cuts across The Walt Disney Co.
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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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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider Australia:
A new look at Ben Thompson's Stratechery, a newsletter on tech and business, as journalists rush to Substack; one unofficial estimate put revenue at $3M+/year — - Founded in 2013, Ben Thompson's $US120-a-year Stratechery newsletter is beloved by tech executives and venture capitalists …
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@ajs, @larakiara, @firstadopter, @peterhimler, The Startup, @ozoran, @fromedome and The Verge
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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@jarroddicker, @simonowens, @jarroddicker, Washington Post and Washington Post
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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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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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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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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