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Former UK PM Boris Johnson plans to join GB News as a presenter, program maker, and commentator in 2024, ahead of the UK general election and the US elections — Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will play a key role on Britain's news channel — Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
X adds a $16/month Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/month Basic plan with a “small boost” but no check — X, the platform previously known as Twitter, has introduced a new $16 per month Premium Plus plan …
Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
Morgan Stanley: Google will lose $1.2B+ in the 2023 season of YouTube TV's NFL Sunday Ticket, with annual losses projected to reach $1.4B+ by the 2029 season — Bank's equity research unit forecasts heavy losses on the out-of-market games package through 2029
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A360Media-owned Soap Opera Digest is ending its weekly print run; the daytime drama magazine first launched in 1975 with its circulation peaking at 1.5M in 1991 — Staffers were informed of the decision Friday, according to sources. A spokesperson for a360Media, the company that owns the brand …
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Alyssa Boyle / AdExchanger:
Disney plans to expand its advertising options on Disney+ in November, including biddable inventory, data from its first-party audience graph, and geotargeting — Disney is celebrating the first birthday of ad-supported Disney+ with a new slate of targeting and measurement options for advertisers.
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Jane Ha on LinkedIn, The Walt Disney Company, MediaPost, Gizmodo, The Verge and The Hollywood Reporter
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA and studios plan to keep talking over the weekend; thousands of union members signed a letter saying they'd keep striking rather than take a bad deal — The sessions may be held virtually, rather than in person. — The two sides met on Friday for the third day this week at SAG-AFTRA headquarters.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: BuzzFeed is in advanced talks to sell Complex Networks to e-commerce company Ntwrk for less than $140M; BuzzFeed paid ~$300M to acquire Complex in 2021 — BuzzFeed is negotiating a sale of much of Complex Networks for under $140 million, less than half of what it paid to acquire it two years ago.
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@billkuchman, @juwanthewriter and Adweek
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
Hasan Minhaj records a video in which he calls The New Yorker's profile of him “so needlessly misleading”; the magazine defends its work as “carefully reported” — The comedian releases a 20-minute video to THR giving his perspective on the profile, which accused him of fabricating details in his stand-up.
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Dan Ackerman / Dan Ackerman on LinkedIn:
Dan Ackerman is stepping down as editor-in-chief of G/O Media's Gizmodo, which hired him in June 2023, and starting a “new consumer tech” EIC role later in 2023 — Some big career news: I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Gizmodo and starting an exciting new consumer tech Editor-in-Chief role later this year.
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Zachary Small / New York Times:
Artforum fires EIC David Velasco after the prestigious outlet's open letter on the Israel-Hamas war “was widely misinterpreted as a statement from the magazine” — David Velasco was removed after the magazine's publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind …
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NPR, @muna_mire, @chaykak, Stanton Peele on LinkedIn, ArtReview, MediaPost, ARTnews, The Intercept, @hito@tldr.nettime.org, Artforum, bookforum.com and The Wrap
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Chicago-based news nonprofit Investigative Project on Race and Equity, which pays part-time “apprentices” that partner with seasoned reporters — “We're growing and learning, but the core of what we do is this really supported experiential learning.”
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@niemanlab, LinkedIn and Thom Clark on LinkedIn
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charter lost 320K video customers in Q3 2023, citing the Disney carriage dispute in September, compared to 211K video customers the cable giant lost in Q3 2022 — Disney's channels, including ESPN, ABC and FX, went dark for Charter customers in September. — Charter Communications …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company has “barely scraped the surface” in figuring out how to integrate ads into its video, commerce, and grocery offerings — - Comcast Faces Skepticism On Wall Street As Ad Decline Accelerates, Strike Toll Mounts And Broadband Experiences Buffering
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