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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Verizon Media Group plans to rebrand most media franchises as Yahoo products and group them together on Yahoo+, a subscription platform — Verizon Media Group, the media division within Verizon, has 3 million people that pay for subscriptions across its portfolio of Yahoo-related products …
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Reuters:
Cineworld, owner of Regal Cinemas, strikes multi-year deal with Warner Bros. guaranteeing a 45-day theatrical window in the US starting in 2022 — (Reuters) - Cineworld's U.S. chain Regal will reopen next month after prolonged closures caused by the pandemic, in time for big-budget release …
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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Center:
Survey of 12K US adults: 43% got political news in the past week from Fox News, 10% from Newsmax, 7% from OAN; vast majority of the latter two also watched Fox — While Fox's audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives
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Shinhee Kang / Columbia Journalism Review:
How local, Korean-language outlets covered the Atlanta shooting, focusing on the lives of the victims instead of writing profiles of the killer — Sang Yeon Lee first heard about last Tuesday's shootings in the same way as most others in Atlanta: after dusk fell, a breaking news alert appeared on his television screen.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of subscriber retention techniques at 526 news organizations across the US: just 41% “make it easy” for subscribers to cancel their subscriptions online — Bad news for people who hate using the phone: Just 41% of U.S. news publishers “make it easy” for subscribers to cancel …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney revamps its schedule and will release Cruella and Black Widow to Disney+ when they open in theaters, via “Premier Access” with a $30 fee for subscribers — As moviegoing slowly begins to rebound in the U.S., it appears Hollywood studios aren't yet ready to release …
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Kate Kaye / Digiday:
As publishers adopt single ID systems to replace third-party cookies, they are falling short in asking for users' consent and transparency about data use — Publishers, advertisers and ad tech companies are rallying around identity tech such as Unified ID 2., a system developed …
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@acfou, @privacymatters, @katekayereports and Insider
Lindsay Peoples Wagner / The Cut:
Q&A with journalist Abby Phillip on her new CNN show Inside Politics, her upcoming book, covering Trump as a Black reporter, and the lesson of 2020 — As the new editor-in-chief of any publication, the first cover is always a big decision. But especially for the Cut …
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Reuters:
Reporters Without Borders says it has sued Facebook in France, citing a proliferation of hate speech against media and falsehoods about COVID-19 — PARIS (Reuters) -Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France, citing a proliferation …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Daily Mail owner DMG Media has not signed a deal with Google as the “money isn't adequate and the terms are too restrictive,” per editor emeritus Peter Wright — Daily Mail publisher DMG Media has not signed a cash-for-content deal with Google because the “money isn't adequate …
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
As its share price surges, ViacomCBS says it will raise $3B in a stock sale to bolster its push into streaming — The sale of Class B common stock and Series A Convertible Preferred Stock comes the same month the company officially launched Paramount+, and as the company's share price surges.
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Axios, Variety, The Wrap and @alexweprin
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Interview with Katie Couric on hosting Jeopardy!, her upcoming memoir, and building a company to produce a newsletter, a podcast, and other original journalism — She has a daily newsletter. She has a podcast. She produces original journalism on her website. Is there anything Katie Couric isn't doing?
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