Mediagazer: Harvard Business Review reports 116K digital subscribers, more than one-third of its 328K total paying readers; subscriptions have grown 6.5% in 2022 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

2:45 PM ET, November 27, 2022

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Federica Cherubini / Reuters Institute:

A survey of 136 news leaders from 39 countries: 61% say their organization has largely embraced hybrid and flexible work, 20% want a pre-pandemic working model — The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that some of the assumptions we had about work were wrong. Across many industries, work had a dedicated place: the office.

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Harvard Business Review reports 116K digital subscribers, more than one-third of its 328K total paying readers; subscriptions have grown 6.5% in 2022 — The Harvard Business Review, synonymous with the business case study, has lately become a model of sustainable media itself …

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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:

Nielsen: Fox's Thanksgiving NFL telecast of Cowboys vs. Giants was the most-watched regular season game ever, with 42M viewers across broadcast and streaming — NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade also hits a multi-year high. — The Thanksgiving NFL slate provided a feast for the league …

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Financial Times:

Sources: creative executives at Disney bristled at the lack of autonomy under “talent unfriendly” Bob Chapek and Iger is giving back control to creative teams — The secret to Hollywood, explains one of America's most prominent media executives, is to understand it like an …

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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:

Controversy around the Qatar World Cup hasn't hurt ratings in the US, Canada, France, Japan, and the UK; Fox's viewership is up 78% from 2018 — Viewership is up at Fox Sports, which has avoided any talk of scandals and human rights abuses at this year's World Cup, while broadcasters in Germany …

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Susan Chandler / Poynter:

Medill Subscriber Engagement Index shows that subscriptions rose at large, medium, and small US newspapers tracked between September 2021 and August 2022 — The Medill Subscriber Engagement Index shows “that the bottom has not fallen out,” as some feared would happen as the pandemic eased

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:

Survey of UK adults: 29% trust journalists to tell the truth, the highest score for them since the survey's 1983 launch, and 58% trust TV newsreaders, up 6% YoY — Trust in journalism is at highest level since Ipsos Veracity survey began. — The proportion of Britons who say they trust journalists …

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Alistair Gray / Financial Times:

How Woolworths, Loblaws, and other retailers are developing digital advertising arms and profiling customers, aiming to become ad venues for large brands — They're barely noticeable, but promoted items on digital sales platforms are at the vanguard of an industry worth tens of billions of dollars

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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:

A look at BuzzFeed's health using data from SEC filings: time spent on its content dropped every quarter since Q3 2021, costs remain greater than revenues, more — Prompted by its drooping market cap, Press Gazette pieced together a longer picture of the publisher's health.

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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:

Sources detail Netflix's internal debate over embracing theatrical releases for big-budget movies, something Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings call a distraction — The company agreed to some exclusive theatrical distribution for “Glass Onion” and “Matilda the Musical,” but it's not clear exhibitors will get much more.

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James Vincent / The Verge:

Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate photorealistic pictures of celebrities — Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output and pictures in the style of specific artists.

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Rupert Neate / The Guardian:

UK government refuses a measure that would have given judges the power to dismiss legal cases brought against journalists if the judges found them to be SLAPPs — Tom Tugendhat says economic crime bill is not right law to stop courts being used by super-rich to silence critics and journalists

Discussion: @leloveluck, @pressgazette, @liambyrnemp and @ian_fraser

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:

Australia's Sky News host and Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson leaves News Corp after 34 years, following the discovery of multiple instances of plagiarism — In one case the Courier-Mail columnist and Sky News presenter filled almost half a column with the unattributed reporting of a regional ABC journalist

Discussion: @tonykoc69285191, @therealpbarry, @rohan_connolly, @cameronwilson, @byjondaly, @neilmcmahon, @susanamet, @murdoch_rc, Sydney Morning Herald and The Courier-Mail

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:

Reporters Without Borders sues French media regulator Arcom for letting satellite operator Eutelsat continue to broadcast three Russian channels — French rights group Reporters Without Borders has filed a lawsuit in France to try to prevent satellite operator Eutelsat from continuing to broadcast three Russian channels.

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