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Kelly McBride / NPR:
New NPR ethics policy ends a blanket ban on journalists participating in marches or rallies, but in practice requires them to discuss specific cases with bosses — NPR rolled out a substantial update to its ethics policy earlier this month, expressly stating that journalists may participate …
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NBCU's Peacock has 54M total signups, up from 42M at the end of March, 20M monthly active users, and is planning a European expansion via Sky — Peacock has reached 54 million signups to-date, NBCUniversal's parent company Comcast revealed Thursday morning in its Q2 2021 earnings release.
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Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2: NBCU revenue up 39% YoY to ~$8B; ad revenue up 33% YoY to ~$2.2B; Peacock, broadcast, cable TV revenue up 26% YoY to $5.15B; Sky up 28% to $5.22B — Comcast Corp. posted a 25% jump in profit in the second quarter, as its broadband and wireless businesses added more customers …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Substack buys Letter, a startup that allows people to send public notes to one another, to help Substack authors collaborate — Digiday has learned that the publishing platform has acquired Letter, a kind of public correspondence startup founded by Dayne and Clyde Rathbone.
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Edmund Lee / @edmundlee:
[Thread] Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour announces the hiring of Aaron Kissel as general manager for WSJ; Kissel was formerly chief product officer at Politico — .@WSJ publisher @almarlatour just announced the hiring of @aaronkissel as the new General Manager for The Wall Street Journal — it looks like everyone on the masthead just got layered: https://twitter.com/...
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Lauren Johnson / Insider:
Sources: Vizio to cut off 6+ companies to which it sold retargeting data, including The Trade Desk, as it plans to share data exclusively with Verizon Media — - TV seller Vizio is cutting off some adtech companies from ad targeting data as it tries to build a TV ad business.
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The New York Times Company:
NYT names Paula Szuchman to its newly created role of director of audio, which spans news and Opinion, as the outlet's audio teams near 100 people — Paula, a compassionate manager and creative and exacting editor who makes every story she works on better, will become the director of Audio, a new role that spans news and Opinion.
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Netflix will now require COVID-19 vaccinations for the casts of all US productions and for those who come into contact with the casts, with rare exceptions — EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has become the first major Hollywood studio to implement a blanket policy mandating vaccinations for the casts …
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CBSSports.com:
College Big 12 conference commissioner says ESPN is luring member colleges to other conferences, demands ESPN cease and desist; ESPN says claims have no merit — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby alleges conference media rights partner ESPN conspired to damage the league by luring Texas …
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Leah Finnegan / Gawker:
Gawker, now owned by Bustle, relaunches with Leah Finnegan as editor-in-chief — When Bustle Digital Group first approached me to revive Gawker last year, I said absolutely no way in hell. Who in God's name would want to edit a website that was cratered by an evil tech lord and sullied by a botched relaunch?
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Mediaweek:
Australia's Pedestrian Group has launched Refinery29 in Australia and New Zealand; the site is partnering with Getty Images to create stock photo libraries — Pedestrian Group has launched Refinery29, a global media and entertainment destination focused on women and underrepresented voices …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Futuro Media, a nonprofit that runs four Latino-focused outlets with funding from foundation philanthropy, individual donors, and corporate sponsors — In the halls of Congress in April, reporter Pablo Manríquez started asking United States representatives and senators …
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