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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amid an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and other networks are asking staff to trim costs, find savings, and more — As CNN, ABC News and others grapple with an advertising downturn and lower linear viewership, the new mandate is to trim costs …
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl plans to step down after 26 years at the network as part of the company's “restructuring and streamlining of leadership” — The entertainment president is out as part of a “streamlining of leadership” at the company. — Another broadcast network president is out.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Internal memo: Outside, publisher of magazines including Outside, Backpacker, and Ski, lays off 12% of its workforce, following a 15% staff cut in May 2022 — The publisher cited economic headwinds as the rationale for the cuts — Lifestyle media company Outside Media …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Meta reminds Facebook fact-checking partners that “political speech is ineligible for fact-checking”, ahead of Trump's announcement of a 2024 run for president — Facebook's fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running …
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Peter White / Deadline:
Apple plans to launch its Major League Soccer Season Pass on February 1 for $15/month or $99/season and $13/month or $79/season for Apple TV+ subscribers — Apple has unveiled more plans for its launch of Major League Soccer (MLS). — The streamer has revealed the pricing and launch details …
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Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
US survey: 53% of digital publication subscribers aged 18 to 64 canceled at least one subscription in H1 2022 and 29% plan to reduce subscriptions by year's end — Readers are pruning the number of digital publications they subscribe to, according to a new study by Toolkits and National Research Group.
Jez Walters / What's New in Publishing:
An interview with The Washington Post Chief Revenue Officer Joy Robins on raising monthly subscription prices, micropayments, the ad market in 2023, and more — Now in her third year at The Washington Post, following five years at Quartz, Joy Robins oversees a team of more than 300 staff …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
About 45 Mastodon servers out of ~12K block journa.host, a server for journalists, as reporters move with Twitter habits like “mining social media for fodder” — Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users …
Press Gazette:
A UK High Court judge awards Channel 4 presenter Rachel Riley £50K after she sued a political blogger for libel over a post alleging she was a “serial abuser” — Rachel Riley has been awarded £50,000 in damages by a High Court judge after suing a political blogger …
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Zoe Samios / Sydney Morning Herald:
The Australian EIC Chris Dore is stepping down after four years to deal with a health issue and undergo surgery; the newspaper will be edited by Michelle Gunn — Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size — The editor-in-chief of News Corp's national masthead The Australian …
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Mumbrella and The Guardian
Claire Woodcock / VICE:
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes — It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor. — Claire Woodcock
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
NBC suspends Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer after retracting his reporting that stoked right-wing conspiracy theories about the assault on Paul Pelosi — This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Journalists at London-based Iran International TV appear to have had their Qatar visas revoked after Iran designated the TV channel a “terrorist” organization — Journalists at London-based Iran International Television (IITV) appear to have had their visas to enter Qatar to cover the World Cup revoked.
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New York Daily News, Reuters and @meninblazers
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Internal memo: Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc tells staff the company's goal is to “reduce our cost structure by up to 15%” as management finalizes the 2023 budget — NEW: Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc emails staff that the company is reducing its costs by up to 15%. https://twitter.com/...
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Jeff Kotuby / The Streamable:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the company will be “very disciplined” when its NBA contract expires after the 2024-2025 season: “We don't have to have the NBA” — In less than one year as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav has made some “interesting” comments …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
WBD CEO David Zaslav says the ad market is weaker than in 2020 and that HBO went from making $2B+ in 2019 to losing ~$3B in 2021 as content spending surged
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