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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Marriott launches the Marriott Media Network in partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers target consumers on the TVs in their rooms — Marriott will use anonymized data on its guests to help brands target their ads. Walmart, Kroger, DoorDash and others have taken similar tacks, which come amid new privacy efforts
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New York Times:
Paradise Media sells literary magazine The Believer to its original owner McSweeney's at a “meaningful” loss, after an uproar over hosting clickbait content — The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content. Scandal ensued.
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Michael Schaffer / Politico:
A look at C-SPAN's social media and monetization efforts as its cable fee revenue, 98% of its budget, has fallen from a $70M peak to an estimated <$50M in 2022 — Jeremy Art recently discovered a potentially click-generating social-media innovation: the adjective. — Art, 39, runs social media for C-SPAN.
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Washingtonian names Sherri Dalphonse, currently executive editor, as its new editor; she will be the first woman to edit the city magazine — She's the first woman to edit the city magazine and only its fifth top editor ever. — Sherri Dalphonse was named the new editor of Washingtonian on Monday.
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@themediaisdying, @brfreed, @erikwemple and @abeaujon
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ahead of midterms, pollsters consider major changes following presidential election misses, exploring texts and emails to supplement traditional phone calling — CHICAGO — The polling industry is on the precipice of its biggest change in decades, as pollsters try to battle back from consecutive presidential election failures.
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@hctrudo, @pollhannes, @politico_steve, @drewsav and @rasmussen_poll
Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Deadline says it won't publish an interview with Cannes head Thierry Frémaux, after the festival demanded copy approval and removed answers about diversity — Long a bastion of artistic freedom, the Cannes Film Festival has a secret: it censors interviews with festival head Thierry Frémaux.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount appoints Marco Nobili as international general manager of Paramount+ and plans to expand Paramount+ and SkyShowtime to 60 markets by the end of 2022 — Paramount Global promoted Marco Nobili to EVP, international general manager of Paramount+, as the media company has set …
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Digital TV Europe, Deadline and C21Media
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify confirms it is testing a feature that lets select artists promote “third-party NFT offerings” on their profiles, visible to Android users in the US — Artists can already promote merch and tickets on their Spotify profiles. Now the streaming service is testing a feature that will let them also promote their NFTs.
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Aaron Moss / Copyright Lately:
Senator Hawley's copyright bill targeting Disney is riddled with problems, and some media organizations reported on it as if his talking points were facts — Josh Hawley's proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn't know that from most media reports about the bill.
Selome Hailu / Variety:
In a memo to staff, David Zaslav elaborates on Warner Bros. Discovery's priorities, including combining HBO Max and Discovery+, bolstering CNN, and more — In a new memo sent out to Warner Bros. Discovery staff and obtained by Variety, Zaslav began to elaborate on those plans.
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The Wrap
New York Times:
As the TV industry prepares to pitch upfronts to advertisers in-person for the first time in three years, a look at how the entertainment industry has changed — In the three years since the television industry's biggest companies pitched their shows to advertisers in person at the so-called upfronts …
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Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Writers Guild's CBS News Union ratifies a new three-year agreement, with 2% minimum wage increases for staffers, more severance pay for long-term staffers, more — The deal will provide two percent minimum wage increases for staffers, augmented producer fees in certain cities and more severance pay for long-term staffers.
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Deadline