Mediagazer: Q&A with Thomas Rabe, the CEO of pan-European broadcast giant RTL Group, on investing in Fremantle and targeting a €3B turnover by 2025, content types, and more (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

NBC News says that Kristen Welker will take over as Meet the Press' moderator on September 17, 2023; Welker will be the series' 13th, and first Black, moderator — On Saturday, during the NBC News journalist's last time co-anchoring the Saturday broadcast of “Today” with Peter Alexander …

Discussion: @seangraf, Poynter, @phillyvictor, @sheshedtrump, Philadelphia Magazine, @bristei, Adweek and NBC News on YouTube

Elizabeth Wellington / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Condé Nast names Jamila Robinson, the assistant managing editor for food and culture at The Philadelphia Inquirer, as the EIC of Bon Appétit and Epicurious — Jamila Robinson, assistant managing editor for food and culture at The Inquirer, is leaving to become the editor …

Discussion: Daily Front Row, New York Times, MediaPost, Eater Detroit, @craiglaban, @condenast, @rufiojones, @avqueenbenet, @pkerkstra, @maurajudkis, @kelleylcarter, @kaelanisays, @serenamaria36 and @justinbaragona

Mia Sato / The Verge:

A look at AI chatbot Smart Answers that Foundry trained only on Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive content, and offered to their readers on August 1 — By and large, the goal has been: can we make more pages for ads without paying more writers? — Now, a group of tech outlets …

Discussion: @harrymccracken, @dsilverman@threads.net and @mr_existant

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

An interview with Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb about tuition reform, including his goal of paying the full cost for low-income students, and more — The celebrated New Yorker staff writer sat for a wide-ranging interview to kick off his second year as Columbia Journalism School's first Black dean.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @michaelkruse, @j_fassler, @annaivey, @jeffjohnroberts and @joepompeo

Max Tani / Semafor:

Sources: along with Mark Thompson, WBD is considering James Harding, who led BBC News from 2013 to 2017 and then founded slow news outlet Tortoise, to head CNN — The Scoop — Warner Bros. Discovery's search for an outsider to run CNN has taken it to two high-profile veterans of the BBC.

Discussion: Insider, @maxwelltani, New York Post, @semaforben, Talking Biz News and Puck

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:

Nielsen: over two years, the number of streaming titles in the US, Canada, UK, Mexico, and Germany grew 39% to 2.35M and streaming services grew from 118 to 167 — - Average time to find something to watch is now over 10 minutes — Overwhelmed by the choices of movies and TV shows to watch online?

Discussion: IndieWire, The Streamable, Media Play News, @akstanwyck, WORLD SCREEN and MediaPost

Michael Schneider / Variety:

The Hollywood Critics Association restructures, forms a new board, and renames itself to The Hollywood Creative Alliance, following allegations of malfeasance — The Hollywood Critics Association, which had recently been hit with allegations of malfeasance and accused of harboring …

Discussion: @davidpoland, @blowryontv and @tomsiebert

Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:

Q&A with Thomas Rabe, the CEO of pan-European broadcast giant RTL Group, on investing in Fremantle and targeting a €3B turnover by 2025, content types, and more — Thomas Rabe, CEO of parent RTL Group, has provided the capital that helped turn Fremantle into THR's 2023 International Producer of the Year.

Discussion: @rtlgroup

Michael Geist:

Canada's Bill C-18 is set to take effect no later than December 19, 2023, but the country's broadcast regulator suggests media bargaining can't begin until 2025 — The Bill C-18 legislative process was marked by repeated warnings from the government that this was an urgent issue that justified …

Discussion: @wiredwoman, @pagmenzies, @mgeist and @mgeist

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Sources: the Barclay family made a proposal last week to regain control of the Telegraph's holding company by buying back ~£1B of debt from Lloyds Banking Group — The titles' former owners have secured backing from Middle Eastern investors to table an offer to Lloyds Banking Group worth more than £500m, Sky News learns.

Discussion: @markkleinmansky, Bloomberg, Telegraph, @andreas_krieg and The Guardian

Lauren Sherman / Puck:

Source: supermodel Karlie Kloss is in talks to buy the UK-based culture and fashion publication i-D magazine from Vice Media, which acquired i-D in 2012 — The supermodel is in talks to buy the cultishly beloved ‘i-D’ magazine. … I know little about the terms of the deal …

Discussion: @lapresmidi

David Bauder / Associated Press:

A NORC survey finds a substantial rise in philanthropy for journalism over the past five years and suggests outlets tighten ethical rules governing the spending — There has been a “substantial” increase in philanthropic spending for journalism over the past five years …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @jeffjarvis, @mpanewspapers, @raju, @spj_tweets, MediaPost and Media Impact Funders