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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin says revenue grew 35% YoY in H1 2022 and the outlet has 360,000+ “active readers”, including its free newsletters audience — - The Information is one of the rare digital-media outlets that have remained independent.
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@perlberg, Talking Biz News, @nmcalone, @rafat, @lucas_shaw, @lessin and Vanity Fair
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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Ad Age, CNBC, Washington Post, Adweek, TechCrunch, @abebrown716, @abebrown716, @eric_seufert, @laurengoode and @ballmatthew, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
California's budget includes $25M for a local news fellowship, starting in May 2023, with stipends distributed via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism — The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC …
Madison Hahamy / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the tensions between the staff at the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and their owners, who are subjects of over a dozen NLRB complaints — On February 9, 2019, at about 10 pm near the end of a Saturday night shift, John Robinson Block, one of the owners of the Toledo Blade …
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@mhahamy and @bladeguild
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Charter's Spectrum Networks launches a connected TV app offering local news from its 30+ local TV news outlets and original content, free to Spectrum customers — Spectrum Networks today announced the launch of a Spectrum News CTV app for Roku and Apple TV, a compliment to the Spectrum News mobile app the company launched in 2020.
Discussion:
Charter, @tvgrimreaper and Light Reading
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim — Missing archives, less ambitious programming, higher prices: Creators and subscribers say they're seeing the fallout from television's big revolution
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@karlbode, @karlbode, @ncweaver, @karlbode, @karlbode, @davidcorbett_ca, @adamconover, @tvgrimreaper, @gerryconway and @travismandrews, more at Techmeme »
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Bloomberg Media announces a major reorg: Al Mayers, who led global TV, is retiring; David Merritt is named head of Bloomberg Media Editorial over all properties — Big editorial re-org at Bloomberg Media today. The headline is that Al Mayers, who led Bloomberg's global TV division, is out. Here's the full memo from Scott Havens and John Micklethwait (it's a whopper). https://twitter.com/...
Inside Radio:
Podcast Movement issues an apology to Ben Shapiro for saying it was a mistake to sell booth space to The Daily Wire, after Cumulus Media “dissociated” from it — Weeks after organizers of the podcast industry's largest conference attacked the most listened-to conservative podcast host …
Discussion:
@podcastmovement, Barrett Media, Radio & Television … and RADIO ONLINE
NBC Chicago:
A Republican PAC is sending mailers to Illinois voters that are styled as newspapers with names like the Chicago City Wire and the DuPage Policy Journal — A conservative group that is behind a recent series of television advertisements critical of Gov. J.B. Pritzker is using another medium …
Discussion:
@jackieforil47 and @endmoneybond
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate to release more NFTs in the future — Last fall, movie director Quentin Tarantino announced that he would auction ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs to the public.
Discussion:
The Verge, CoinDesk and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage:
UK's National Union of Journalists postpones a three-day strike planned at Reach from September 13-September 15 after the queen's death and a new pay proposal — A planned three-day strike by journalists next week has been called off in the wake of the death of the Queen, with a revised pay proposal now set to be put to union members.
Reuters:
Indian music streaming app Gaana says it has switched to a paid subscription model after buyout talks failed: sources: the potential acquirer was Bharti Airtel — Tencent-backed Indian music streaming app Gaana has switched to a paid subscription model to avoid closing down after failing …
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