Mediagazer: Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app (Tatiana Cirisano/Billboard)

Jay Rosen / The Verge:

Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more — An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems …

Discussion: PressThink, @jcstearns, @erichirshberg, @dangillmor, @joenbc, @digiphile, @alexstamos and @jayrosen_nyu, more at Techmeme »

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

BBC reports median gender pay gap of 6.2% and a 55:45 gender split in on-air roles; BAME make up 26.8% of on-air contributions but only 9.8% of off-screen ones — Director general Tim Davie says he wants “a modern, highly efficient BBC that truly reflects Britain” as the public broadcaster …

Discussion: Press Gazette, The Guardian and Variety

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:

BBC report 2019/20: £3.52B in licensing fees, down 5% YoY; deficit of £119M; BBC Studios profit grew 14% YoY to £181M; must save extra £125M due to COVID-19 — U.K. broadcaster BBC has talked up its value in a “tougher than ever marketplace,” in the words of chair David Clementi …

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
FOIA docs: BBC settled 700+ female employees' equal pay claims and gave many pay raises, between July 2017, when the equal pay scandal began, and March 2020

Discussion: @fawcettsociety, @madfckingwitch, @zoe_flood and @annolivarius

Brian Stelter / CNN:

Trump says he will be resuming weekly appearances on Fox and Friends, as he did until 2015, though co-host Steve Doocy says Fox hasn't committed to that — New York (CNN Business)President Trump says he is resuming his weekly visits to “Fox & Friends,” the morning show that gave …

Discussion: @atrupar, Mediaite, The Hill, Deadline, The Wrap, Mediaite, @erikwemple, @brianstelter, The Week, @brianstelter and @brianstelter

Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:

In a filing, Fox News' Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and other Fox staffers to be deposed in October in Seth Rich case, over the network's role in debunked reporting — A new court filing says the Fox stars have agreed to answer questions on their role in spreading conspiracy theories about the murdered DNC staffer.

Discussion: Newser, @thetweetofjohn, @askjillian, @katiephang, The Week and The Hill

Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:

Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app — Spotify has partnered with concert discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings to the platform …

Discussion: Spotify for Artists, Variety and Music Business Worldwide

Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:

ViacomCBS will rebrand CBS All Access as Paramount+ early next year and expects to expand internationally, starting in Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics — Announces 5 New Originals, Plans to Expand Internationally in 2021 — It's official, CBS All Access is changing its name to Paramount+ next year.

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap, Deadline, TechCrunch, Observer, MediaPost, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, CNBC, Adweek, CNN, Ad Age, The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, The Playlist, Fortune, @thekenyeung, WORLD SCREEN, Cord Cutters News, Hollywood Reporter and Business Wire, more at Techmeme »

Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:

SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer to retire at the end of 2020 and be replaced by Jennifer Witz, current head of sales, marketing, and operations — Sean Sullivan is leaving CFO role at AMC Networks for same position at Sirius — Jim Meyer is retiring as CEO of SiriusXM on Dec. 31, the company announced Tuesday.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Variety, RAIN News, Deadline, New York Post, DMS, Billboard and Music Business Worldwide

Jason White / Facebook Journalism Project:

Facebook announces an additional $5M investment in local news orgs serving marginalized communities and programs that focus on developing news entrepreneurs — Local news organizations across America are doing tremendous work under extremely challenging conditions.

Discussion: Axios

Patrick Frater / Variety:

Conviva: steaming video consumption in Asia grew just 2% YoY in Q2, compared to an average of 63% globally; Europe grew 134% YoY and North America grew 57% — Streaming video consumption in Asia grew a barely perceptible 2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020.

Helen Stubbs / Gallup:

Survey: 69% of US adults are more concerned about bias in others' news sources than in their own; 56% feel their own sources have at least a fair amount of bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six in seven Americans think there is at least a fair amount of political bias in news coverage in general …

Discussion: @gallupnews, @mirandayaver, @demfromct, @amzam, @nickclairmont1, @notjessewalker, @knightfdn and Poynter

The Daily Beast:

Washington Post reported as genuine a fake FBI raid on infamous right-wing trickster Jack Burkman's house, staged by Jacob Wohl, before adding a correction — A Virginia man who responded to a Craigslist ad seeking actors to play FBI agents quickly discovered he'd been roped into yet another Wohl/Burkman hoax

Discussion: Washington Post, @emilytroutman, @oliverdarcy, @dellcam, @dangillmor, @ne0liberal, @kenklippenstein, @bostonjoan, @originalspin, @willsommer, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy and Washingtonian