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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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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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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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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.”
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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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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.
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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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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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 …
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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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