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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
NYT beats Q2 expectations with $93M adjusted operating profit on $499M revenue; 8M subscribers, 142K new digital subscribers; online revenue up 41% YoY to $261M — The company expects to end the year with about 8.5 million. In its quarterly results, it reported holding nearly $1 billion in cash.
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Ben Bowman / The Streamable:
HBO Max is no longer available on Amazon Prime Video as WarnerMedia seeks a direct relationship with users — HBO Max continues to assert its independence from its old streaming partners. If you look for the service on Amazon Prime Video, you won't find it anymore. — We knew this was coming.
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Catie Keck / The Verge:
HBO Max is offering a selection of 13 free pilot episodes in-app to attract new subscribers — Lovecraft Country, Harley Quinn, and Game of Thrones included — HBO Max is offering free episodes to potential new subscribers in-app and free of charge so they can take its more popular series …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
HBO Max plans to release a Batman podcast, Batman: The Audio Adventures, as an in-app exclusive with no RSS feed, despite the app lacking normal audio features — Batman: The Audio Adventures comes out this fall — The HBO Max team wants its app to not just be the place people find big movie premieres but podcasts, too.
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Bloomberg:
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Politico employees are mounting an effort to unionize with NewsGuild — Members of Politico's newsroom are actively mounting an effort to unionize with the NewsGuild, sources tell Axios. — Why it matters: Politico's newsroom is one of the largest newsrooms to have resisted organizing efforts in the past.
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The Daily Beast:
Jezebel EIC Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is resigning later this month to write a book; her departure follows several other recent exits by top staff at G/O Media — The women-focused site is losing its top editor—yet another exit in a months-long series of departures.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Subscription digital outlet Puck debuts its site puck.news, will formally launch in Sept., has hired Dylan Byers, Matt Belloni, and others as founding partners — Puck, a splashy new digital media company, is coming out of stealth mode, Axios has learned. The company debuted its landing page …
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Christine Mungai / Nieman Lab:
A look at nine-person pan-African outlet The Continent, which sends out a free weekly PDF to 11,000 subscribers on WhatsApp and Signal — In Africa and much of the global South, the spread of rumors, hoaxes, and calculated “fake news” primarily happens on WhatsApp, whose closed network …
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Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the relationship, at times ethically uneasy, between sports journalism and sports betting, amid sportsbooks' broad shift into media operations — Gamblers would give anything to peek at Ian Rapoport's notes. In late April, Rapoport—a reporter at the NFL Network, known on air as an …
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Open letter signed by British newspapers and broadcasters asks UK to include Afghans who have worked for UK media in its refugee visa program for Afghans — Newspapers and broadcasters send open letter to Boris Johnson raising safety fears about locals who did vital work for the west
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Nia Prater / New York Magazine:
NY AG report: Chris Cuomo of CNN sent an email that appeared to be a draft PR release for his brother, Andrew, when harassment claims against the governor arose — The newly released report from Attorney General Letitia James's office on sexual-harassment allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo …
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