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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting — Storied magazine raised subscription prices and hired top talent; ‘we make something worth buying’
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Justin Pallenik on LinkedIn, @nycsouthpaw, Mariah Craddick on LinkedIn, The Hill, Molly Logan Cox on LinkedIn, Nicholas Thompson on LinkedIn, Bhumika Tharoor on LinkedIn, @palewire, @davidtoddmccarty@me.dm, @delia_cai, @edmundlee@threads.net, Alice McKown on LinkedIn, The Atlantic, @alexbruell, @thekenyeung@mastodon.social and The Wrap
New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal — Why are television news networks so enamored with paid Beltway analysts? — Trying to juice ratings in an election year …
New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher — The investor Josh Kushner and his wife, Karlie Kloss, have struck a deal with Barry Diller's media company to revive it as a regular print title.
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Bedford Media, @kelseyjbarnes, Vulture, @angiejaime, New York Daily News, @media_bedford, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Wrap, Deadline, New York Post, Variety, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @joshuakushner, @alex, The Daily Beast, The Information, The Hollywood Reporter and @lapresmidi
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens — At least nine of the current top 50 shows on Apple Podcasts have been promoted in mobile games — Welcome back to Soundbite.
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@kantrowitz
Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
YouTube says 25%+ of Partner Program channels earn money from Shorts; of those who joined the program thanks to Shorts, 80% earn from other parts of YouTube — One year after YouTube turned on revenue sharing for its shortform video feature, a growing chunk of creators are getting paid for it.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Reach plans to move 300 of its 2,000 journalists into central traffic-driving content hub to reduce the number of journalists writing similar stories — The proposed hub will end duplication as multiple journalists at different Reach websites currently write about the same trending topics.
Discussion:
HoldtheFrontPage
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
BDG's SVP of marketing details changes amid referral traffic declines, including prioritizing quality, focusing on Instagram and TikTok, and staging events — This article was provided as an exclusive preview for Digiday+ members, who were able to access it early.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Actor Sara Poyzer says BBC is using AI instead of her voice in a documentary; the BBC says it is to recreate the voice of a dying person at a family's behest — UPDATE: The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer's viral social media posts.
Discussion:
Mediaite, @sarapoyzer, Daily Mail, BGR, Observer, @matthewg_yoga, The Drum, Rolling Stone, Gizmodo, The Daily Beast, @nathanwyburnart, The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed signs an agreement to license the UK and Ireland operations of HuffPost, Tasty, Seasoned, and BuzzFeed to the Independent, which ~30 staff will join — - Deal also includes UK arms of HuffPost, Tasty and Seasoned — BuzzFeed's share price has gained after job cuts, asset sales
Discussion:
The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Inc., @buccocapital, The Independent, The Wrap, Press Gazette and Reuters
Advanced Television:
European Audiovisual Observatory: Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ took 85% of VOD viewing time in nine EU countries from September 2022 to September 2023 — Concentration is the main characteristic of VoD usage in Europe with 85 per cent of viewing time generated by only three services (Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+).
Discussion:
Broadband TV News, Media Play News and European Audiovisual Observatory
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Phoebe Connelly, The Washington Post's first-ever senior editor for AI strategy and innovation, on prompt training, anxiety about job loss, and more — Phoebe Connelly on prompt training, AI anxieties, and her first-of-its-kind role … Phoebe Connelly is The Washington Post's …
Discussion:
Phoebe Connelly on LinkedIn and @niemanlab
Washington Post:
Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas — Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas
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