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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 …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News announces that Kristen Welker will become the moderator of Meet the Press on September 17, 2023 — On Saturday, during the NBC News journalist's last time co-anchoring the Saturday broadcast of “Today” with Peter Alexander, those who tune in will see a new promo alerting them to Welker's imminent move.
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@phillyvictor, Philadelphia Magazine, @seangraf, @bristei, @sheshedtrump, Poynter, Adweek and NBC News on YouTube
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 — The supermodel is in talks to buy the cultishly beloved ‘i-D’ magazine. … I know little about the terms of the deal, only that it would make Kloss the proprietor …
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@lapresmidi
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 …
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@harrymccracken, @dsilverman@threads.net and @mr_existant
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
An interview with Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb about tuition reform, including plans to pay low-income students' full cost of tuition, 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.
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@michaelkruse, @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.
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Insider, New York Post, @maxwelltani, @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?
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IndieWire, The Streamable, MediaPost, Media Play News, @akstanwyck and WORLD SCREEN
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
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 …
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@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
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 …
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Nieman Lab, @raju, @mpanewspapers, @jeffjarvis, @spj_tweets, MediaPost, Lenfest Institute … and Media Impact Funders
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Emails: after the Pentagon complained, Fox News quietly amended and removed a story falsely claiming a dead Marine's family had to pay to transport her remains — The network quietly removed the story based on false claims from a congressman but did not apologize or run a correction
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