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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney announces a major reorg, says its “primary focus” for entertainment will be streaming, as the pandemic has dramatically impacted its theatrical business — - Disney is restructuring its media and entertainment divisions. — In order to further accelerate it's direct …
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Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
New York relaunches Curbed, the last Vox property to move to the magazine, where it will feature regularly in print, be placed under a paywall, and focus on NY — Real estate site Curbed has officially relaunched as a New York Magazine vertical. — When Vox Media acquired New York Media …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and other major outlets are refusing to send reporters to travel with Trump this week amid lack of assurance of COVID-19 safety protocols — Newspapers and networks are wary of exposing their staff members to the president and his aides, saying they do not have assurance …
Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
Profile of The Babylon Bee, a conservative answer to The Onion, which initially mocked Trump but now finds itself with an “insatiable desire to own the libs” — The comedy site, a conservative answer to ‘The Onion,’ used to have Trump squarely in its cross hairs.
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CNN:
How Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson are helping Trump campaign launder unverified Russian information about top Democrats — (CNN)While most of the nation was largely fixated over the past week on President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis …
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Jim Roberts / The 74:
Former Cheddar EIC Jim Roberts has joined The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education in the US, as its new publisher and chief strategy officer — Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States has measured its impact in terms of the many thousands lives lost …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder has made a comeback after demonetization last summer, gaining nearly 1M subs, showing the unevenness of YouTube's enforcement — A year in YouTube's penalty box worked out well for Steven Crowder. — Crowder—one of the most popular conservative voices …
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Frank Pallotta / CNN:
AMC Theatres says existing cash resources would be “largely depleted” by the end of 2020 or early 2021 due to reduced movie slate and attendance, down 85% YoY — New York (CNN Business)Illustrating how dire the situation is for the movie theater industry, the world's largest theater chain …
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
NYT Guild apologized on Sunday after denouncing an NYT column from Bret Stephens that said “the 1619 Project has failed” — The New York Times Guild apologized on Sunday after denouncing an article from New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. — On Friday, Stephen's criticized …
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Maria Arias / Axios:
WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows refused to speak to reporters outside Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing after they requested that he keep his face mask on — White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows refused to speak to reporters outside Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing on Monday …
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Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:
Google adds YouTube to its Google Ads attribution reporting and expands its data-driven attribution model to more advertisers — Google has added YouTube in its Google Ads attribution reporting and is making its data-driven attribution model available to more advertisers.
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
How Netflix reinvented its marketing on social media through a series of accounts for Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and other subsets of its audience — How do you market a product to the world if you already have close to 200 million committed customers? For Netflix, the answer has been to realize that its audience is not a monolith.
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