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Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times:
Sources: in early 2020, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner criticized Adidas in 20+ Bild articles for freezing rents without disclosing he was an Adidas landlord — Mathias Döpfner orchestrated stories against company for pausing rents without disclosing his interest
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon heavily advertises its first regular season Thursday Night Football game on its shopping home page, in NFL's first exclusive US streaming rights deal — “It wasn't that long ago I had no idea what streaming was, as did a lot of us,” says Al Michaels.
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New York Post, TechCrunch, Variety, About Amazon and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon and Apple passed on the media rights to Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which also hasn't been able to strike a deal with ESPN, CBS, NBC, and Fox — Tech giants were approached by upstart golf league but didn't express interest, joining list of media platforms
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Bloomberg, The Streamable, @dbergstresser, @nrarmour, @exavierpope, @thecoachrules and AppleInsider
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Tony Gallagher, deputy editor of Murdoch's The Times, is being lined up to be its new editor, as its current boss, John Witherow, is expected to leave — Announcement expected of editor John Witherow's departure and his deputy's promotion — Tony Gallagher is being lined …
John Koblin / New York Times:
CNN plans to revamp its morning show in October 2022, adding hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins, in Chris Licht's biggest programming move yet — The morning slot will be hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. The move leaves open Mr. Lemon's prime-time slot.
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Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Former LA Times editor Henry Fuhrmann dies; Fuhrmann was also an adjunct journalism professor and active member at the AAJA and ACES: The Society for Editing — No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen. In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or …
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Filipp Lebedev / Reuters:
Russia's Supreme Court strips Novaya Gazeta of its last media license; Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov calls the verdict “informational genocide”, vows to appeal — Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its last media licence on Thursday.
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Local newsletter outlet 6AM City, which covers 25 cities, reports $3.5M in 2021 revenue and expects to hit ~$10M in 2022 revenue ahead of profitability in 2023 — Press Gazette has listed the biggest newsletter-based publishers in the world and spoken to several about how to build an email-based news business.
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The Rebooting and @pressgazette
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu if Disney would sell; Disney CEO Bob Chapek has said he wants Comcast's third — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called Hulu a “phenomenal business” — and said that if Disney were willing to sell it …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Inside labor unrest at The New York Times, where star reporters and new enlistees are frustrated with pay negotiations and union members discuss “strike school” — As much of the media industry sank beneath the digital waves in the last decade, the New York Times became something …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta's Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes it for removing a cartoon of police violence in Colombia — California's antitrust lawsuit claims customers have “nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it.”
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@oversightboard and @russellbrandom, more at Techmeme »
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Layoffs hit Fanbyte, a video game and entertainment site owned by Tencent, and G4, a video game talk show network owned by Comcast — The Fanbyte layoffs today follow previous layoffs at G4TV and Future earlier this week — Today layoffs hit the respected video game and entertainment website Fanbyte …
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@floppyadult, @godsewa, @dominictarason, @floppyadult and Kotaku
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