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UNC backs down from offering Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, instead offering a fixed five-year contract, after conservatives object to her work on The 1619 Project — Journalism school will instead offer Nikole Hannah-Jones a fixed five-year contract — In her career in journalism …
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Hussman Faculty / Medium:
About 30 members of UNC's journalism school faculty sign a letter demanding tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism — As Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty, we are stunned at the failure to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
WarnerMedia says HBO Max's cheaper, ad-supported tier will cost $10 per month and launch in the first week of June — HBO Max, so far, had a single subscription price at $15 a month. … HBO Max's cheaper, ad-supported tier will cost $10 a month and launch in the first week of June, WarnerMedia said Wednesday.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
AT&T and Verizon conflated controlling distribution with controlling demand and hence wasted billions by buying media businesses like Time Warner and Yahoo — Felix Salmon asked a question on Twitter: — While Salmon's question was driven by the news that AT&T would spin out WarnerMedia …
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New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Zucker, who said he expects to leave CNN at the end of 2021, may be open to a longer stay as his “best friend” David Zaslav becomes his boss — Phone buddies and golf partners, Jeff Zucker and David Zaslav have a 30-year history. Now Zucker may be open to working for the man he calls a “best friend.”
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of David Zaslav, one of the highest-paid US corporate CEOs, who spent 14 years building Discovery into the preeminent player in unscripted programming
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Right-wing video platform Rumble says it has raised an undisclosed amount from Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and others; sources say Rumble is valued at ~$500M — Backing from conservative venture capitalists comes amid push for alternative social-media channels with looser rules on speech
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: 41% of Americans say news organizations are growing in influence, while 33% say influence is falling; in early 2020, nearly half said influence was falling — Americans' views about the influence of the media in the country have shifted dramatically over the course of a year …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google says Android TV OS, which includes Google TV, now reaches over 80M monthly active devices, with 80% YoY growth in the US — Google offered an update on its TV platform, Android OS, at its Google I/O developer event on Tuesday. The company said its Android TV OS now reaches …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Vice says its titles now produce more Stories-style content every month than text or horizontal video content, helped by an in-house Stories Studio app — Vice Media Group Cory Haik doesn't want to call it a pivot. — But a new mobile app developed in house last year, called Stories Studio …
The Daily Beast:
In recent months, Newsmax has quietly poached some top OANN talent who, sources say, sought either bigger audiences or a break from OANN's increasing extremism — ONE AMERICA EXODUS — In recent months, Newsmax has quietly poached some top OAN talent who, insiders said …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sally Buzbee's deliberative approach while leading AP investigative projects gives clues to how she might manage the Washington Post — A former colleague of Sally Buzbee recalls the time some big shot at the FBI told the Associated Press that it shouldn't publish some details in his story.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Information says it hired 22 people in the last year, as it adds beats and newsletters, with plans to reach “hundreds of thousands” of subs in a few years — The Information has hired 22 people in the last year, adding more beats, staffing up popular ones and adding more newsletters to drive subscriptions.
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