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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ViacomCBS' Shari Redstone and Bob Bakish and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts met in June to discuss potential streaming partnership for international markets — Late June meeting also included ViacomCBS CEO Robert Bakish; focused on potential to join forces in international markets
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Internal email shows Fox Corp. has implemented its own version of a vaccine passport, allowing staff to self-report the dates their shots were administered — New York (CNN Business)Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” laws.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof decided to take a leave of absence last month as he considers the possibility of a Democratic bid for Oregon governor — Nicholas Kristof, the award-winning columnist for The New York Times, is considering running in the Democratic primary race for governor of Oregon.
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Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
DOJ announces that it will no longer use compulsory legal processes to seize records from reporters acting “within the scope of their newsgathering activities” — The president has previously criticized the Trump administrations' secret seizure policies.
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David Pegg / The Guardian:
Leaked list shows 180+ journalists, working for FT, CNN, NYT, WSJ, and others, are among potential targets of surveillance by government clients of NSO Group — Data leak and forensics suggest NSO's surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world's top media companies
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Associated Press:
Morocco court jails journalist Omar Radi for six years on charges of spying and rape; Radi was among journalists identified as targets of NSO Group's clients
Morocco court jails journalist Omar Radi for six years on charges of spying and rape; Radi was among journalists identified as targets of NSO Group's clients
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The Guardian:
Over 80 journalists from 16 outlets, members of the Forbidden Stories consortium, collaborated on the Pegasus project, which investigated the NSO Group leak
Over 80 journalists from 16 outlets, members of the Forbidden Stories consortium, collaborated on the Pegasus project, which investigated the NSO Group leak
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple wants to lease a large campus in LA for film and TV production as competition for soundstages heats up — The producer of ‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘The Morning Show’ wants to expand its presence in the competitive streaming landscape — Apple Inc. told real-estate developers it wants …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Univision announces executive changes: Luis Silberwasser will oversee entertainment, news, and sports, and Leopoldo Gomez will be head of the news division — Univision has unveiled a massive overhaul of its corporate ranks as well as the leadership of its entertainment, news and sports divisions.
Penelope Green / New York Times:
John McMeel, co-founder of United Press Syndicate, once the largest newspaper syndication company in the world, which first signed Garry Trudeau, has died — He and his business partner started in a basement, recruited a Yale student cartoonist named Garry Trudeau, and built the largest company of its kind.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
NBC News says Stay Tuned, its daily news show on Snapchat, has 10.5M subs, and its twice-daily episodes get ~1M unique viewers, with 50% watching 3 shows a week — Four years after NBC News debuted “Stay Tuned” on July 19, 2017, what stands out about the daily news show is how little has changed.
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Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
The top 10 biggest spenders in US media spent an estimated $1.74B, or 45% of their combined TV budgets, on ads during NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL games in 2020 — If there's any downside to the glutton's buffet that is the Sunday NFL experience, that 12-hour, three-window smorgasbord of circus catches …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim raised $17M to date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal …
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Jamie Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity:
Center for Public Integrity announces Paul Cheung, the director of journalism and technology innovation at the Knight Foundation, as its new CEO — Paul Cheung, a veteran journalist and leading advocate for innovative change in media, has been named chief executive officer of the Center for Public Integrity.
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
TV writers say the development backlog created by the pandemic remains a challenge even with production back up, as buyers have little appetite for new projects — Multiple TV writers and lit agents tell Variety that the market is incredibly challenging, with little appetite from buyers for new projects.