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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more — So that's what an orderly transfer of power looks like. — While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat …
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Hamish Morrison / The National:
Report: BBC chairman Richard Sharp helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800,000 just weeks before the former prime minister recommended him for the job — BBC chairman Richard Sharp reportedly helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of £800,000 just weeks before he was recommended for the role by the then-prime minister.
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Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
Anti-harassment org Time's Up, often accused of aligning with Hollywood's rich and powerful, will halt operations and shift its remaining ~$1.7M to a legal fund — The Golden Globes carpet typically glitters with crystal-studded gowns in pastel hues, but it looked different in January 2018 …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: LA Times, WaPo, The Atlantic, and Time are unprofitable and rely on their billionaire owners' goodwill, despite hunting for better business models — Starting a decade ago, a generation of new-money billionaires rode to the rescue of American journalism:
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Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Doug Liman, the director of “Justice”, on making the documentary about Brett Kavanaugh in secret, its surprise screening at Sundance, more — The filmmaker kept his project under wraps with the help of NDAs and a commitment to self-financing …
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Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
A look at the San Francisco Inquirer, launched by an NY consultant to look like a local news site and pressure lawmakers into supporting a Bay Area-based tribe — WASHINGTON — A New York consultant who reportedly published false news articles about political figures has created a website called …
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Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:
Creators from India's hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users' videos — A new generation of creators found success on YouTube Shorts. Now, YouTube is after them for violating its community guidelines.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
A year in, Axios Pro has 3,000+ paid subscribers who generated ~$2M in revenue; Axios publisher Nick Johnston says total 2022 revenue was in the $50M-$60M range — Axios launched its subscription business, Axios Pro, in January 2022 and within that first calendar year …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Comscore: Variety averaged 28.5M unique monthly users in 2022, beating all other trade news sites and eclipsing Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly audiences — Variety.com, the online home of entertainment business magazine Variety, scored record-breaking traffic in 2022.
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Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Listen Notes: ~219K podcasts were created in 2022, down nearly 80% from a peak of ~1M in 2020 and lower than the pre-pandemic high of ~337K in 2019 — Hope you all had a great weekend! We've got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for you all, as well as the latest in audio news.
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Nieman Lab:
In interviews with 16 US whistleblowers who contacted journalists between the 1970s and 2010s, about half say the media is antagonistic and not a good partner — There is perhaps no more studied — or worried-about — dimension of news over the past five to ten years than the decline of media trust.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Vox Media is laying off 7% of its staff, or ~133 people, across editorial, revenue, operations, and core services, after cutting 39 positions in July 2022 — Vox Media is laying off 7% of its staff, according to a memo sent internally from CEO Jim Bankoff, obtained by Axios.
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