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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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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 …
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@davidpoland, @blowryontv and @tomsiebert
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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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.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
LGBTQ+ outlet Pink News shifts towards ad agency partnerships, after its social media revenue fell 50%+ from 2022, when social accounted for ~80% of its revenue — Pink News has seen “hockey-stick-like growth” in its direct sales activity this year. — LGBTQ+-led brand Pink News has carried out a …
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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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.
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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 …
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Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
The US SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs, a first; the LA-based entertainment company agreed to pay a $6.1M fine — Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission — In an enforcement action announced on Monday …
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