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Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal — Meta faces €390 million in fines and must find a new legal route to targeted ads, while the Irish regulator is suing …
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Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Vox Media plans to no longer run ads from fossil fuel companies, “kind of formalizing” a policy that SVP AJ Frucci says the publisher has had since early 2021 — The company also announced a carbon-neutral ad offering. … To ring in the new year on a sustainable note …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Sirius XM and Amazon slow podcast dealmaking and Spotify froze its US budget for new podcasts; all three seek to keep 50% of ad revenue vs. 20% before — As the podcasting universe has matured in recent years it has picked up many of the trappings of more established media industries …
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The Information, @bizboyle, @felixgillette, @ericspiegelman, @lucas_shaw, @ashleyrcarman and Podnews, more at Techmeme »
J. Scott Trubey / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution names Andrew Morse, a media journalist and former executive at CNN, Bloomberg, and ABC News, as its president and publisher — Former CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News executive to help lead digital transition — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Leaked letter: UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan recommends against privatizing Channel 4, saying “there are better ways” to secure its sustainability — Channel 4 privatization is off the cards. — UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon creates a single unit for Prime Video, MGM+, and Freevee, led by company veteran Andrew Bennett, reporting to Prime Video VP of International Kelly Day — EXCLUSIVE: In its latest corporate realignment, Amazon has created a single unit for third-party living room device business development …
Kris B. Mamula / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Cars Holding, a subsidiary of Ohio-based Block Communications, plans to acquire weekly tabloid Pittsburgh City Paper from Butler Eagle publisher Eagle Media — A subsidiary of Toledo, Ohio-based Block Communications Inc. is buying Pittsburgh City Paper from Eagle Media, the publisher of the Butler Eagle …
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Denise-Marie Ordway / The Journalist's Resource:
An analysis of 5,847 political news stories from 20 media outlets in 2021: far-left and far-right outlets offer easier-to-read coverage than mainstream outlets — The study provides insights into “what journalists at reputable organizations might want to consider when they're writing news …
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@raju and @007_delic
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen plans to launch its cross-platform measurement product Nielsen One Ads on January 11, offering content and ad measurement at the second-by-second level — The cross-platform measurement product has been hotly anticipated by marketers. … The company says that the cross-platform measurement product …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources detail the impact of the ransomware attack on The Guardian: the paper nearly didn't print for days, print columnist picture bylines vanished, and more — A ransomware attack on the Guardian has hobbled the London-based news-organization's basic operations, shutting down everything …
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@mattzeitlin, @semaforben, @maxwelltani, @weldpond, @youngvulgarian, @semafor, The Record, New York Post and Press Gazette
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
UTA acquires NYC-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house Fletcher & Company, which the company plans to fold into its UTA Publishing division — As part of the deal, the New York-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house's founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead …
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Publishers Weekly, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, @petersteinberg1 and Deadline
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
European entertainment and media organization Antenna Group appoints Linda Jensen as its group CEO; she has held senior positions at HBO Europe and MTV Russia — European entertainment and media organization Antenna Group has appointed Linda Jensen to the position of group CEO.
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