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12:50 PM ET, September 9, 2021

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October  —  Amazon is officially in the TV set business.  —  After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Ozy Media names investor and board member Marc Lasry as chairman; Lasry intends to grow its investor base and pursue acquisitions  —  Marc Lasry, the billionaire businessman and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, has been named chairman of OZY Media, the digital-first media and entertainment company founded in 2013 by CEO Carlos Watson.
Discussion: @sarafischer
Jake Kanter / The Times:
Sources: BBC is expected to confirm ex-HuffPost UK editor Jess Brammar to the top news role overseeing BBC's domestic and international channels  —  The BBC is expected to confirm the appointment of Jess Brammar, a former deputy editor of Newsnight and editor of HuffPost UK …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
NBC says it has nearly sold out of its Super Bowl ad units, with some spots going for a record $6.5M, a sharp increase from last year's price of $5.6M  —  - Cryptocurrency among new sponsor categories for February game  — Super Bowl ads last year sold for an average of $5.6 million
Richard J. Tofel / Second Rough Draft:
Vice touts its reader demographics and traffic figures, but seems to have lost its edgy editorial vision, making it sound like a run-of-the-mill media business  —  Revisiting what David Carr saw, and why it may have been lost.  —  Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time …
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News launches See It Now Studios, led by former President Susan Zirinsky, to create documentaries and more for Paramount+, ViacomCBS brands, and others  —  The former CBS News president will lead the news and doc studio, which will create programming for ViacomCBS and other networks and streaming services.
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
WaPo's Tokyo bureau chief Simon Denyer is leaving the paper; he's reportedly the person referred to in Felicia Sonmez's suit as sexually harassing a colleague  —  Tokyo bureau chief Simon Denyer will leave the Washington Post, the publication's foreign desk announced in a terse note Thursday.
Eoin Higgins / The Flashpoint:
The Guardian removed a section of a Judith Butler interview comparing anti-trans feminists to fascists; sources say Guardian pulled a series on trans issues  —  On Tuesday, British newspaper The Guardian published an interview with Judith Butler—and then removed a section …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
HFPA's board of directors has elected Helen Hoehne as its new president; Hoehne served as vice president since 2020 and was on the board from 2012-2019  —  Fighting to stay alive, the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association has elected a nearly 20-year veteran to lead the group into what may or may not be better days.
 
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Marc Malkin / Variety:
Netflix signs TikTok star Addison Rae to a multipicture deal; the 20-year-old has 83.3M+ TikTok followers, 39.2M Instagram followers, and close to 5M on Twitter
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