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Sara Fischer / Axios:
NBC News says it will add over 200 jobs to strengthen its streaming services and websites, including doubling its digital staff for Today — NBCU News Group is adding hundreds of jobs to its digital organization, led by a major investment in streaming as well as in its “TODAY” show brand, executives tell Axios.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Analysis: of the 20 largest US newspapers, only 7 are now led by a white man while twelve are led by a woman, a POC, or both, and one top job is vacant — Among the 20 biggest dailies, nearly two-thirds of their newsrooms are run by a woman or a person of color (or both).
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@niemanfdn, @alanmillernlp, @jbenton, @jbenton and @jbenton
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: Universal Pictures has teamed up with Peacock on a $400M deal for a new Exorcist trilogy — The deal, expected to be announced this week, is for more than $400 million and is a direct response to the streaming giants who are upending the film industry's economics.
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Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Facebook's restricting interest-based and web activity ad targeting for users under 18 on its platforms, only allowing segmentation by age, gender, and location — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will stop allowing advertisers to target people under 18 on its platforms based on their interests …
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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Leaked memo: NYT hires Bloomberg Businessweek's Peter Coy and NYT Magazine writer-at-large Jay Caspian Kang for its secret newsletter project to rival Substack — - The Times has hired Jay Caspian Kang and Peter Coy for its newsletter project, according to a leaked memo.
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@perlberg, @ebruenig, @lucas_shaw and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@thekenyeung
Wall Street Journal:
NBC says the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympics drew a combined audience of 17M across broadcast and streaming in the US, down ~36% from the 2016 Games — Tokyo's kickoff came a year late and without fans because of the Covid-19 pandemic — The kickoff of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo drew …
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The Daily Beast:
Futurism, the tech and culture outlet previously owned by Singularity University, is acquired by Recurrent Ventures, which bought MEL magazine last month — The buyer, Recurrent Ventures, has recently scooped up other popular niche outlets like MEL, Popular Science, Outdoor Life, and more.
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@jon_christian, @jaredbkeller, @weareyourfek, @weareyourfek, @maxwelltani and Talking Biz News
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
US media coverage of the failed January 6 committee shows how political analysis and reporting is still largely trapped in “both sides” framings — In late May, over the Memorial Day weekend, the top story on NBC's Meet the Press was a recent vote by Republican senators to kill …
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USA Today, Washington Post, The Hill, @jon_allsop, @mickimaynard, PRESS RUN, New York Times, ABC7, @jon_allsop, @cjr and Fox News
Mark Jacob / Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative:
A look at the emerging trend of local investors, especially in smaller US towns, buying news outlets from large chains to reverse decades of disinvestment — As chain consolidation brings new uncertainty to an already fluid news landscape, another trend is emerging in which local investors buy news outlets …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @localnewsini, @timafranklin and @timafranklin
Max Fisher / New York Times:
Analysts and US officials say the disinformation-for-hire industry is booming, as influencers get approached by back-alley firms to spread falsehoods — Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A Brazilian judge has granted Starz a temporary restraining order blocking the launch of Disney's streaming service under the Star+ brand in Brazil on Aug. 31 — Starz has succeeded in blocking Disney from launching a streaming service in Brazil under the name “Star Plus.”
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The Streamable, Cord Cutters News, @richlightshed, Olhar Digital and The Wrap
Indigo Olivier / The Nation:
Media unions, including at the Daily Beast, are leading the charge against NDAs by adding provisions in contracts that ban them as a matter of workplace safety — Workers in the industry argue that nondisclosure agreements are a matter of workplace safety, making them “mandatory subjects of bargaining.”
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