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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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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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ViacomCBS Q2: net income of $1.04B on $6.6B revenue; 6.5M new streaming subscribers for 42M total; new deal with Sky will bring Paramount+ to Europe in 2022 — ViacomCBS said second quarter profit rose as advertisers spent more robustly on its media assets and the company saw new revenue from a host of streaming initiatives.
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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” — The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly?
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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
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: CNN execs floated the idea of a temporary leave for Chris Cuomo in May if he wanted to formally advise his brother on reacting to sex harassment claims — Chris Cuomo, the top-rated host, left some colleagues confused after he did not acknowledge the calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation during his Tuesday show.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Jeff Zucker is staying at WarnerMedia at least until the merger with Discovery closes — - Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia's news and sports chairman, plans to stay in his role at least until his company's merger with Discovery goes through, sources say.
StreetInsider.com:
Penn National Gaming, which owns Barstool Sports, is buying betting and media company theScore for approximately $2B in cash and stock — Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENN) (and Score Media and Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCR) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV arrives on iOS and Android, more than two years after launching — More than two and a half years after IMDb launched its free, ad-supported streaming service, IMDb TV is now available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media and Ebony announce a year-long content-sharing collaboration to cross-pollinate the Bloomberg Equality and Ebony audiences — Bloomberg Media and Ebony are teaming up to make Black stories more visible. The two publishers announced a year-long content-sharing collaboration …
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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.
Kait Sanchez / The Verge:
Starting August 10, NYT will no longer make crosswords available in third-party apps, meaning puzzle solvers will have to use the NYT site or its crossword app — .puz support is no more — People will no longer be able to play the digital version of The New York Times daily crossword puzzle …
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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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