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Kevin Draper / New York Times:
ESPN talent and management have been at odds over the past year, after a white ESPN reporter suggested her colleague got a prized job because she is Black — In comments still rippling through the network, the reporter Rachel Nichols, who is white, said Maria Taylor, who is Black …
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Preston Padden / The Daily Beast:
Former Fox exec Preston Padden says he has tried and failed over the past nine months to get Murdoch to understand the damage that Fox News is doing to America — The Rupert Murdoch I worked for was brilliant, courageous, optimistic, and a gentleman. Which makes his bile-filled network all the more confounding.
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Ad-measurement company Tenjin: following Apple's IDFA changes, spending on iOS ads fell one-third between June 1 and July 1, while Android spending rose 10% — Android ad prices have jumped, as iOS users opt out of being tracked, early data show — Advertisers have begun shifting …
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Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple's privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates — Tracking system for iPhones developed by Chinese tech groups fails to gain traction — A co-ordinated attempt by Chinese tech companies …
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Katy Perry to offer NFTs via Theta Labs, a blockchain-based P2P video streaming network with 1M MAUs that gives out rewards in exchange for unused bandwidth — - Theta has built a peer-to-peer video streaming network — Katy Perry takes stake in Theta Labs, to offer NFTs to fans
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Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
YouGov: 47% of those in US don't have cable TV, including 60% of those 18-34; another survey finds most advertisers say CTV works at least as well as linear TV — Cordless consumers are on track to exceed cable viewers within the next year, according to a survey of 4,000 U.S. adults conducted …
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The Guardian:
UK's Channel 4 says more than 70% of its presenting team for the Paralympics will be disabled — Broadcaster reveals plans for its Games coverage, with Ade Adepitan to host highlights show in Tokyo — More than 70% of the Channel 4 presenting team for the Paralympics will be disabled …
Wall Street Journal:
After being canceled in 2020, Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley conference starts Tues.; sources say executives from Discovery, Amazon, and Netflix are attending — Allen & Co. event brings business leaders together after one-year hiatus due to pandemic, for a gathering rife with deal-making potential
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sports outlets like Racquet, whose next issue Naomi Osaka is guest editing, acknowledge athletes' social media reach while retaining journalistic independence — The tennis superstar is guest-editing Racquet magazine and has written a cover essay for Time. What's left for traditional sports journalism?
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Carlos Aguilar / Vox:
A freelance film critic discusses gatekeeping in movie criticism, and the challenges for writers from marginalized backgrounds to enter the profession — I never believed I could be one. That's the problem. — The first time I attended a press screening — an early …
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Sinclair, the dominant owner of regional sports networks in the US, made an offer to acquire NBCUniversal's seven regional sports networks — Sinclair Broadcasting Group, already the nation's dominant owner of regional sports networks, has made an offer to acquire NBCUniversal's …
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Comcast hires David Rhodes to lead international business development at Sky, after News Corp's plans to launch a Fox News-like network in UK were scaled back — - David Rhodes moving on after News Corp. TV project scaled back — Comcast's European division Sky faces challenge from Netflix
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