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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Jeff Zucker's spokesperson asks Variety to retract a post on Zucker and CNN, and Puck and The Atlantic reporters refute some of its claims; Variety stands by it — The magazine's scathing feature on former network chief Jeff Zucker has unleashed an outcry over its veracity, with some top media brass even calling for a retraction.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ESPN plans to air a SportsCenter show with an all-female anchor team and a female-led production crew, as it aims to serve brands that support women's sports — Not tonight. — When ESPN viewers tune in to the 11 p.m. edition of the long-running sports-news program, they may see something a little different.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI's impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal — Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job. A comedian in Los Angeles …
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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Netflix lists a $300K to $900K-a-year ML product manager job that points to its plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections
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Bloomberg:
Research using Meta's data from around the 2020 US election shows news audiences were highly politically segregated; changing algorithms didn't change attitudes — Multiple studies aim to understand Facebook's impact on elections … Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company …
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
The staff of Mississippi Today, which won a 2023 Pulitzer for Local Reporting, and its New Orleans-focused sister site Verite unionize — It's the latest evolution for scrappy nonprofit Mississippi Today, founded seven years ago by former NBC News executive Andy Lack
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Universal Music Group Q2: revenue rises 8.8% YoY to €2.697B, or $2.93B, subscription streaming revenue up 13%, and merchandising up 12.1%; stock climbs 10%+ — Yesterday, the world's biggest subscription music streaming service, Spotify, announced its Q2 results.
Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Microsoft's Xandr emails customers about updates to its ad policies, including a ban on political ads, with changes effective in September and October — Xandr, the ad-tech platform acquired by Microsoft in 2021, is getting out of political advertising later this year.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $847.2M, vs. $773.5M est., platform revenue up 11% YoY to $744M, and active accounts up 16% YoY to 73.5M; ROKU jumps 8%+ — The company reported Q2 revenue of $847.2 million, up 11%, and a net loss of $107.6 million (-$0.76 per share).
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John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
Yahoo Sports hires former Axios Sports newsletter editor Kendall Baker as its senior writer to oversee its newsletter strategy and launch a new daily newsletter — Yahoo Sports hired Kendall Baker as senior writer, a position where he will head up the company's newsletter and cross-platform strategy.
Adweek:
Adweek names Will Lee, currently the COO of NPR, as CEO, and former Time Inc. CEO Rich Battista as executive chairman of the Adweek Board — Joining from NPR, Lee will expand Adweek's offerings and chart a new path forward for one of the industry's most iconic brands
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The UK's Film & TV Charity names Marcus Ryder, former BBC news executive and a diversity veteran, as its CEO, replacing Alex Pumfrey, who moved to ITV this year — Marcus Ryder, the British diversity vet and former BBC news exec, has been named CEO of the UK's Film & TV Charity.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
The White House condemned Fox News over comments made by host Greg Gutfeld, who said some Jews “had to be useful” as a means for survival during the Holocaust — The White House denounced Fox News this week over comments by one of its hosts, Greg Gutfeld, that some Jews …
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Aisyah Llewellyn / Al Jazeera:
Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites — Medan, Indonesia - Elon Musk's aspirations for X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, have hit a stumbling block …
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