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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Texas Tribune names Sewell Chan as its editor-in-chief, starting October 18; Chan currently oversees the LA Times' editorial board and opinion section — Mr. Chan, who became The Times's editorial page editor last year, will be the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune starting Oct. 18.
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Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate” — The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
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Gilad Edelman / Wired:
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum:
[Thread] Memo from CNN's Jeff Zucker: the company has fired three employees in the last week who had been coming into the office unvaccinated — CNN terminated “three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” per memo from Jeff Zucker. “We have a zero-tolerance policy on this.”
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Dow Jones, the News Corp unit that is parent of WSJ, MarketWatch, and Barron's, reported $69M in profit on $449M revenue in Q4; WSJ subscriptions rose 15% YoY — Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron's reported an 18 percent increase in revenue …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker sign a six-year, $900M+ deal with ViacomCBS for 14 spinoff movies for Paramount+ and episodes for Comedy Central — The expanding ‘South Park’ universe will include new movies for Paramount+ — The creators of “South Park” …
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Interview with Substack CEO Chris Best on incentives for good and bad online behavior, subscriptions vs. annoying micropayments, and hidden Substack gems — Welcome to Extra Garbage Day! These Thursday issues are typically paywalled, but I'm sending this week's out to all readers.
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@shiraovide, @caseynewton, @broderick and @bendreyfuss
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Researchers studying 300,000 YouTube viewers from 2016-2019 suggest that radicalization via algorithm is not widespread; most stick to their ideological corners — Tracking user behavior shows that most people don't go down radical rabbit holes. — We've all seen it happen …
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The Information:
Source: Hello Sunshine, which sold at a valuation of $900M, is expected to reach $125M in revenue this year and generated $65M last year — Since a Blackstone-led group agreed to buy Hello Sunshine at a valuation of $900 million this week, there's been lots of talk about the rich prices Hollywood studios …
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@jtoonkel, @anthony, @theinformation and @pkafka
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Lionsgate Q1 revenue rose to $901.2M, up 11% YoY and in line with expectations; global subscriber levels totaled 28.9M, down from 29.5M the prior quarter — Lionsgate reported results that hurdled the expectations bar, but reflected a quarter-to-quarter slowdown at Starz.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Jay Rosen's Membership Puzzle Project is ending; a key takeaway is that membership is no panacea, as most sustainable outlets have multiple revenue sources — The public research project analyzed membership projects worldwide. They found successful communities were fixated on learning what their members value.
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@curtwoodward and @azirulnick
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom study: Netflix's UK customer base is now bigger than the total of all UK pay-TV subs; UK has 31M subscribers to streaming services, up from 20M in 2019 — Some 52% of U.K. households have a Netflix subscription and 29 of the top 30 shows on subscription services in the first quarter …
Matt Skibinski / NewsGuard:
NewsGuard/Comscore on digital ad spending: $2.6B goes to “misinformation” sites globally each year; for every $2.16 sent to US newspapers, misinfo sites get $1 — An analysis of programmatic advertising data conducted by NewsGuard and Comscore finds that misinformation publishers …
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