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ESPN and Penn Entertainment unveil a deal to launch ESPN Bet, as Penn rebrands its sportsbook in the 16 US states where it is licensed; PENN up ~15% after hours — Sports betting deal to include a streamlined experience for sports fans — ESPN today announced an agreement with PENN Entertainment …
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Penn Entertainment is selling Barstool Sports back to founder Dave Portnoy, who has accepted certain noncompete agreements; Penn had bought Barstool for $551M — - Tim Baysinger- Kerry Flynn- Sara Fischer — ESPN on Tuesday announced a betting joint venture with casino operator PENN Entertainment …
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Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed misses with Q2 revenue down 27% YoY to $77.9M, ad revenue down 33% YoY to $35.4M, and a net loss of $27.8M vs. $23.6M in Q2 2022 — The struggling media company reports a net loss Tuesday for the second quarter of $27.8 million — BuzzFeed ended June with $41.3 million in cash …
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Catherine Perloff / Adweek:
Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google changed the name of one of its video formats …
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Dish reports Dish TV lost 197K subscribers in Q2, leaving 6.9M, Sling TV lost 97K subscribers, leaving 2M, and total pay TV subscribers fell 11% YoY to 8.9M — Today DISH announced its 2nd quarter 2023 earnings and reported that DISH and Sling TV lost 294,000 subscribers.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Endeavor says the ongoing Hollywood strikes are expected to the cost the company ~$25M per month in revenue, but the company will stand with its clients — The full effects of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes will be felt in WME parent Endeavor's third quarter earnings report.
Kate Harloe / Popula:
The Albany Public Libraries partnered with the city's local paper, the Times Union, to produce a series of articles and examine what kind of news locals needed — checking out the news at the Albany Public Library — On a cold Saturday last November I needed a place to work …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An analysis of Paramount's $1.62B deal to sell Simon & Schuster to PE firm KKR, in which Simon & Schuster employees receive an ownership stake in the company — CEO Jonathan Karp is touting the “commitment to growth” promised by storied investment firm KKR, which has inked a $1.6 billion deal to buy S&S from Paramount Global.
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Australia's ABC shutters all but four of its accounts on X, citing “toxic interactions” and cost, amid shifting resources to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram — The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
A look at the increasingly hostile environment for journalism in the Netherlands, where the 2021 killing of journalist Peter R de Vries has had ripple effects — On a small street off Amsterdam's bustling museum district, there is no indication of the 2021 event seared into the memories of the Dutch press corps - at least not yet.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the outlet hopes to be profitable in 2024, plans to seek higher-margin ad deals, and has 925K subscribers — The Atlantic has booked $19.5 million in advertising and events revenue so far this year, according to data shown to staff during …
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Jeff Kosseff / Wired:
Unlike in Gonzalez v. Google, SCOTUS in the next year can't just punt the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida — Forget Gonzalez v. Google. There's another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they will …
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@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org and @PrivacyDigest@mas.to
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI plans to offer a $395K grant to fund a new initiative at New York University's journalism school that will provide workshops on journalism ethics issues — OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, will fund a new journalism ethics initiative at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute …
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@tonyajoriley, @_felixsimon_, @dicktofel, Shelly Palmer, @jackmirkinson.bsky.social, @ingrid@everything … and MediaPost
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