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Calder McHugh / Politico:
A profile of Jelani Cobb, the Columbia Journalism School's new dean, as some say journalism schools feel slightly anachronistic and students worry about debt — Everyone is in their back-to-school finest. For the incoming Columbia Journalism School class, this means …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC has discussed giving the 10pm hour to local TV stations to program every day as a cost-cutting move, given broadcast TV's declining popularity — Network has discussed giving 10 p.m. hour to local station partners, a cost-cutting move as interest in broadcast TV wanes
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Kurt Gessler:
Tribune Publishing says disabling Google's AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends — Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix may launch its ad-supported tier in 2022 in 6+ markets, and plans to charge $7 to $9 per month in the US, selling ~4 minutes of ads per hour — Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current …
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Financial Times:
Ampere: Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix will spend $23B+ in 2023 on original content, up 10% YoY and more than twice the spending of 2019 — Crop of expensive fantasy adaptations from Amazon and HBO Max served up at subsidised prices
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Jessica Votipka / Grand Island Independent:
In Nebraska, high school administrators shut down a journalism program after students published editorials on LGBTQ topics, which some call an act of censorship — Northwest Public Schools administrators eliminated its journalism program in June in what some former students and press freedom advocates call an act of censorship.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Poynter and NewsGuild: Gannett's August 2022 layoffs cut at least 70 to 90 newsroom jobs, after a 35% drop in the newspaper's workforce from 2019 to 2021 — The latest cutbacks at Gannett come amid an industry-wide trend of shrinking newspaper newsrooms — The only full-time news reporter …
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Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE 90.7:
Q&A with The Charlotte Observer's Rana Cash, on her first year as executive editor, reimagining the paper, connecting with communities of color, and more — It's been almost a year since Rana Cash was named executive editor of the Charlotte Observer. She's the first Black person to hold …
The Guardian:
A look at Russia's propaganda drive in the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson through a new TV station and a resurrected Soviet-era newspaper — As Moscow gears up to annex Kherson in a ‘referendum’, Tavriya shows Russia as liberator, saving citizens from Ukrainian Nazis
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at the growing divergence between critics' reviews and viewers' ratings of top movies over the years; 2022 so far has the largest opinion gap to date — Good afternoon from Los Angeles, wherever you may be. Earlier this year, I noticed that critics seemed especially critical of the new crop of big movies.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Warner Bros. Discovery expects to save $100M annually on residuals from 36 removed HBO Max series and movies, as the company seeks to cut costs by $3B — Viewers have come to see streaming as an endless bounty of programming choices that are available in perpetuity.
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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
TikTok cut jobs in its US advertising department weeks ago as part of the unit's restructuring, offering affected employees 30 days to find roles in other units — TikTok has cut employees from its U.S. ad department as part of a restructuring of the unit, as the fast-growing social media app responds …
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