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Todd Spangler / Variety:
IAC's digital publishing arm Dotdash acquires Meredith, publisher of People and other magazines, in a $2.7B all-cash deal — Meredith, the media company home to publications including People, EW, Better Homes & Gardens and InStyle, will become part of Dotdash, the digital publishing division …
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John Shiffman / Reuters:
Review of court records details AT&T's role in creating and funding OANN; 90% of OANN's revenue comes from contracts with DirecTV and other AT&T services — As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump.
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Brandon Silverman, the founder and CEO of the Facebook-owned analytics tool CrowdTangle, is leaving the company; team members were reassigned several months ago — CrowdTangle has been caught up in an internal transparency battle at Facebook — Brandon Silverman, the founder and CEO …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bustle relaunches Mic for a young, “extremely online” audience, with more pop culture coverage and less politics — Under new ownership, the online publication aimed at younger readers unveiled a revamped version of itself on Wednesday. — Mic, an online magazine that was known …
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Reuters:
Twitter is selling mobile ad subsidiary MoPub to AppLovin for $1.05B, after acquiring it for nearly $350M in 2013 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ads company MoPub to AppLovin Corp (APP.O) for $1.05 billion in cash. — MoPub, which generated …
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Inside Disney's CEO transition, as Bob Iger lingers while successor Bob Chapek provokes anxiety due to his lack of creative background and data-driven approach — Eighteen months into media's most consequential transition, Disney's respected ex-CEO lingers while successor Bob Chapek provokes creative anxiety …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal names Kelly Campbell as president of Peacock, two days after she quit her job as Hulu president — It's official: Kelly Campbell is the new president of Peacock, NBCUniversal announced. … Campbell will join the Peacock leadership team starting in November and will be based in the Los Angeles area.
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Eric Berger / Ars Technica:
A new Russian law essentially bans a variety of space topics for reporters and bloggers, likely reducing coverage of Roscosmos within the country — “Will it affect the coverage of Roscosmos? For sure it will.” — It is safe to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a fan of independent media.
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Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World:
Instagram usage exploded in India after the TikTok ban, but the creator economy is still devastated, and critics say Reels content is comparatively bland — “TikTok was a canteen; Instagram is a café. But the canteen has better food, and the café serves costly coffee that not everyone drinks."
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Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle:
Twitch acknowledges a “breach” after a 4chan user leaks its source code, creator payouts from 2019-2021, proprietary SDKs, internal AWS services, and more — SOURCE CODES AND USER PAYOUTS AMONG THE DATA RELEASED IN A 128GB TORRENT — An anonymous hacker claims to have leaked …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube, which is a top destination for podcast listeners of some shows, is looking to hire its first executive to oversee its podcasting business — The video site is looking for someone to manage the growing number of podcasts uploaded every day
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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism:
Comparative analysis finds that the Black press publishes more coverage on racism, health disparities, and voting access than the US mainstream media — On March 16, 1827 in New York City, a group of free Black men founded Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper owned by, led by and for Black Americans in the United States.
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