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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Marty Baron's failure to enact a new social media policy is presenting a major test for Executive Editor Sally Buzbee on her one-year anniversary in the top job — A flurry of Twitter flare-ups and Slack spats involving Post journalists, along with a controversial suspension …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Memo: Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee reiterates “in the strongest of terms” rules banning harassment, discrimination, and attacks on colleagues
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Martin Baccardax / TheStreet:
Roku's stock closes up 9.06% after a report says employees have been discussing a possible Netflix acquisition in recent weeks; Roku is down 56.31% in 2022 — Reports suggest employee chatter at San Jose-based has been focused on a potential takeover bid from Netflix.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett is reducing daily editorial pages at its regional papers, refocusing on community dialogue, citing low readership, abundant opinions online, and more — The 250-title chain will largely cut back opinion to a few days a week and refocus opinion on community dialogue.
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Apple strikes a unique deal for an F1 movie with a global theatrical window of 30+ days and the revenue split 50-50 between Apple and the filmmakers — The unique deal, which calls for a wide theatrical release with a meaningful window, will have the creative team paid three ways …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify's podcast business generated nearly €200M in 2021 revenue, up 300% YoY, but had a -57% gross margin; Spotify monetized 14% of listening time in Q1 2022 — Spotify disclosed some key financial metrics of its podcast business for the first time — and while the $1 billion-plus …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
An interview with incoming New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn on succeeding Dean Baquet, discouraging reporters from “wallowing” in Twitter hate, and more — Joe Kahn takes over next week as executive editor of The New York Times as the newspaper is riding high on a new crop …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Australia's ABC plans to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs and make journalists research and archive their stories, due to “more efficient work practices” — A further 17 contract positions will also be axed with many of the staff affected based in regional areas
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Digital interim chief Alex MacCallum plans to leave on June 30, and Wendy Brundige will take over the role; CNN Digital CTO Robyn Peterson is also leaving — A second senior CNN executive who was deeply involved in the launch of the company's CNN+ streaming-video hub is set to leave the company.
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount's free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV is set to expand into Canada this fall in partnership with local broadcaster Corus Entertainment — Paramount Global's free, ad-supported streamer, led by Olivier Joliet, is headed north of the border to debut this fall in partnership with Corus Entertainment.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
At White House briefings between January 1 and May 9, 2022, Biden aides took 347 questions from Fox News, more than any other network, followed by CBS with 263 — On Day 2 of the Biden administration, Fox News host Sean Hannity taunted White House press secretary Jen Psaki by hyping network White House correspondent Peter Doocy.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Unlike ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, Fox News will not carry Thursday's primetime January 6 Committee hearing, airing the proceedings on Fox Business instead
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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
Vox Media debuts a supply-side platform for programmatic sales of ads reaching sites from publishers that use its Concert marketplace, including Vox sites — If you want something done right then do it yourself, as the saying goes — and at Vox Media that's truer than ever …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Defector's Normal Gossip podcast, launched in early 2022, gets around 100K downloads per episode and helped boost subscription revenue for the worker-owned site — The sports and culture website earns 95% of its revenue from subscriptions. When Normal Gossip launched paid subscriptions last month …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Newsquest reports a £45.2M profit on £142M revenue in 2021, up from a £45.1M loss and £139.7M revenue in 2020; average staff numbers fell 18% YoY to 1,489 — Newsquest Media Group swung back into £45.2m profit last year following a £45.1m loss the year before.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Kamal Ahmed, EIC of UK-based social media-first startup The News Movement, says it almost doubled editorial staff to 16 and expects to launch fully in the fall — The News Movement, the social media-first news start-up founded by Kamal Ahmed and Will Lewis, has almost doubled the size of its editorial staff to 16.
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