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Memo: New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn defends the outlet's trans coverage and warns staff and contributors against attacking colleagues or campaigning — “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists” in protests over the paper's coverage of trans issues, its executive editor wrote.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Thousands sign a letter protesting The New York Times' coverage of trans people, coordinated with a letter from GLAAD; a NYT statement defends the outlet's work — This story has been updated with a statement from The New York Times. — In the past year, page A1 of The New York Times …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.1B, operating income down 93% YoY to $182M, TV Media down 7% YoY to $5.9B, and DTC up 30% YoY to $1.4B — The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network and the Paramount movie studio said that the costs of generating gains in streaming crimped …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 77M+ global streaming subscribers in Q4, up from 67M in Q3 2022, nearly 56M Paramount+ subscribers, and 78.5M Pluto TV MAUs, up by 6.5M QoQ — The conglomerate, led by CEO Bob Bakish, in its fourth-quarter results touts higher streaming revenue.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Paramount plans to hike the price of Paramount+ with ads from $4.99 to $5.99 per month and the premium tier with Showtime from $9.99 to $11.99 per month in 2023
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify plans a new homepage for March 2023, which lets listeners vertically swipe through music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations that play automatically — Hello and welcome back to Soundbite. This week we're previewing what Spotify will announce at its Stream On event.
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Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the podcast industry, as a faltering ad market and recession fears increase the reluctance to fund projects without a path to short-term profitability — “The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Atlanta-based Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news outlet for Black Americans that has raised $12M, announces plans for a second newsroom in Gary, Indiana — Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news startup for Black Americans, has announced plans to launch its second local newsroom in Gary, Indiana.
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Erika Wheless / Ad Age:
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. …
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV plans to simulcast Apple's MLS Season Pass package starting on February 25 via DirecTV for Business, in 300K restaurants, hotels, and other businesses — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV says it will simulcast Apple's Major League Soccer (MLS) television package to business customers.
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Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal:
Ryan Seacrest is leaving ABC's talk show Live with Kelly and Ryan after joining in 2017; Disney says he will be replaced by Kelly Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos — He joined Kelly Ripa in the hosting chair in 2017 after his predecessor, Michael Strahan, left in dramatic fashion
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