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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Former colleagues share how a powerful Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, Michael Fuoco, got away with sexual misconduct for years as his paper, union ignored it — Michael Fuoco was a bigfoot reporter with a fiery personality and a reputation for harassing young women. No one seemed to want to rein him in.
BBC:
Netflix says “we have no plans, and see no need, to add a disclaimer” warning The Crown viewers that the show is a work of fiction — Netflix says it will not warn viewers of The Crown some scenes are fiction. — Responding to calls for a warning from Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden …
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Universal Music says it has acquired Bob Dylan's entire music catalog of over 600 songs; the deal is estimated to be worth over $300M — Universal Music purchased his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of a single act's publishing rights.
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Variety, PR Newswire, Yahoo News, Music Business Worldwide and AllAccess.com
Manisha Krishnan / VICE:
Canada's Global News radio host Supriya Dwivedi quits, alleges colleagues' on-air racist narratives led to threats against her; Global News is “taking action” — An email to staff said the company is in the midst of an “internal reflection” regarding systemic racism but didn't provide many details about what that means.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators — As Cardi B prepared the release for her new song “WAP,” she checked off all the usual components of her promotional plan …
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Maya Wiley made ~18 appearances on MSNBC since leaving as a contributor to launch her NYC mayoral run, earning criticism from mayoral rivals and media ethicists — Maya Wiley left a cushy contributor's job at MSNBC in July so she could launch her campaign for NYC mayor …
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Financial Times:
Inside Disney's costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline, as sources say the success of Disney Plus diminished Disney's interest in Hulu — Media empire must sustain its costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline
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@annaknicolaou, @sub8u, @webbarr, @financialtimes, @rasmus_kleis and @annaknicolaou, more at Techmeme »
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
ProPublica's Richard Tofel discusses the Trump Bump: donors rose from ~3K in 2015 to 32K in 2019, when small donations made up 20% of $33.1M in revenue — ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news operation that has won six Pulitzer Prizes in its 12-year history, was a major beneficiary of the so-called ‘Trump bump’.
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@dicktofel
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NYT's SVP of product engineering Brian Hamman on how the paper prepared for the 2020 election and changes they made to the homepage for the event — Senior vice president of product engineering Brian Hamman describes prepping for unusual results, multiple needles, and vote counting that stretched for days.
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@niemanlab, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and @bpagliaro
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE has issued a subpoena demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources for emails sent to ICE attorneys; EIC “emphatically rejects” requests for source info — “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.”
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Mattie Kahn / Glamour:
Interview with Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, about covering Trump, writing her memoir, and rejecting “both sides” journalism — The morning I talk to Yamiche Alcindor is like most mornings she's had since she started covering Donald Trump in 2017 …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more — - CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
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