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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
NYT hits 7M subscribers as digital-only subscriber revenue tops print subscriber revenue, a first; Q3 net income doubled to $33.6M on revenue of $426.9M — For the first time, the publisher brings in more revenue from online readers than its print subscribers.
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New York Times:
Trump and advisers erupted when Fox News called AZ for Biden; source: Jared Kushner called Rupert Murdoch; Jason Miller asked for a retraction that didn't come — The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states' vote counts.
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New York Times:
Nielsen: Fox News had 14.1M prime-time viewers on Election Day, a cable news record, vs. CNN's 9M, and averaged 4.9M prime-time viewers in October, up 85% YoY — The president and his aides have been critical of the cable network that includes some of his most ardent media allies.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
On Wednesday morning, Fox & Friends was supporting Trump's attempted election theft, priming its audience to treat the ongoing counting of ballots as fraudulent
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Despite a protracted count, the three major cable networks kept trying to sustain excitement over the US election rather than admitting there was no news
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
News anchors, including from Fox News, forcefully called out Trump after he prematurely declared himself the victor of the 2020 election
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Data privacy campaigners file a legal challenge against ICO, the UK's data protection watchdog, arguing data use in ad tech remains a systemic problem — The UK's data watchdog is facing a legal challenge after it took the decision to quietly close a complaint against the adtech industry's …
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Wall Street Journal:
Twitter accounts posing as the AP and CNN posted false and premature claims Wednesday declaring election victories in what appeared to be a coordinated campaign — Similarities in fake accounts and tweets point to coordinated effort to spread online disinformation about presidential election
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CNBC:
Memo: ESPN will lay off ~300 staff and not fill 200 open positions, citing COVID and shift to streaming; ESPN also won't renew contracts for some on-air talent — KEY POINTS — The layoffs come as parent company Disney restructures its entertainment and media business.
Sameer Yasir / New York Times:
As India falls two places on the global press freedom index, Arnab Goswami, an anchor of India's Republic TV, has been detained on charges of abetting a suicide — The conservative anchor Arnab Goswami was detained on charges of abetting a suicide in Mumbai, where an opposition party is in power.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Sources: NBC believes T-Mobile's TVision is in breach of contract with NBC for how stations are bundled on TVision Live and VIBE, and is “exploring options” — A third media company has now expressed concerns over T-Mobile's TVision streaming service.
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Loupe, which takes a 30% cut of sales of prints of paintings and photos it shows as slideshows on Pluto TV and others, says it'll have 2M viewers by end of 2020 — Good morning, and welcome to Protocol Next Up, a weekly newsletter about the future of technology and entertainment.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney to lay off 50+ employees drawn from studio marketing, its NY-based theatrical unit, and Searchlight Pictures, also cuts several hundred open positions — Disney has enacted more layoffs, impacting more than 50 employees in the studio's marketing group, the NY-based theatrical division and Searchlight Pictures.
Meredith Corporation:
Meredith reports earnings of $42M on revenue of $694M, down 4% YoY, but benefiting from a 43% increase in local political spot advertising over 2018 — Delivers Record First Quarter Digital Advertising and Political Revenues — Generates Operating Cash Flow of $79 Million; $201 Million Cash on Hand
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@kerrymflynn:
Memo: Jonah Peretti says BuzzFeed will be profitable for 2020 despite the pandemic and employees affected by earlier salary cuts will get “restoration payments” — Last month, WSJ reported BuzzFeed was “on target to break even this year for the first time since 2014”: https://www.wsj.com/... Today, CEO Jonah Peretti told staff BuzzFeed reached profitability + all staffers affected by graduated salary reductions will have salaries restored https://twitter.com/...
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