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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Quartz CEO Zach Seward and Editor in Chief Katherine Bell will buy back the company from Japanese financial data and media company Uzabase — CEO Zach Seward, Editor in Chief Katherine Bell will buy Quartz from parent company — The co-founder of Quartz and its editor in chief agreed …
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Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
An in-depth look at the reckoning inside The New York Times, as the paper becomes less dispassionate and more crusading, driven by company-wide Slack channels — On October 23, eleven days before the presidential election, Manohla Dargis, one of the movie critics at the New York Times …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Times reporter Maggie Haberman's coverage of Trump's presidency since 2016, with her pieces accounting for hundreds of millions of page views in total — For the last four years, the Times reporter has been the human incarnation of a nation riveted, like it or not, by Donald Trump.
Washington Post:
Inside the week that may have permanently ruptured the bond between Trump and Fox News as sources say Trump has vowed revenge on the network — The last day of Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign began just after 7 a.m., as polls opened on the East Coast, with a call to “Fox & Friends …
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Media is launching QuickTake, its 24/7 streaming channel, on Monday, with 10.5 hours/day of original content, as 250K pay $40/month for its news — QuickTake service will cover general interest and lifestyle news, starting with 10-and-a-half hours of daily programming
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New York Times:
Sources: MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham will no longer be a paid contributor after he failed to disclose on appearances that he helped write speeches for Biden — Mr. Biden urged mask-wearing as he laid out his strategy to fight the pandemic. The incoming administration is starting to make decisions about filling cabinet posts.
Chris Burns / SlashGear:
Sling Media, a subsidiary of DISH, says it is closing down today and all Slingbox devices and services will become inoperable in November 2022 — Slingbox will no longer function as of November 9, 2022. Sling Media, a subsidiary of DISH, announced that they were closing shop on November 9, 2020.
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Sources: amid layoffs at ESPN, executive VP of content, Connor Schell, plans to leave at the end of the year to start his own non-fiction production company — In the wake of ESPN's layoffs, Connor Schell, the No. 2 in charge, is leaving his position at the network at the end of the year, The Post has learned.
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Steve Marble / Los Angeles Times:
Alex Trebek, Jeopardy host and trivia master, has died at 80 from pancreatic cancer — Alex Trebek, the master of trivia whose quick wit, easy smile and my-favorite-professor demeanor made “Jeopardy” a welcome guest in the living rooms of America for decades, has died at his home overnight following …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Even though media never fully learned how to cover Trump, its work exposing Trump's abuses has been crucial in holding his administration accountable — As the cowbells clanged, car horns blasted and anti-Trumpers partied Saturday on my New York City street corner not long after TV networks called …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCUniversal partners with PayPal to help viewers purchase goods from shoppable TV segments and shoppable gift guides featured on Syfy and other sites — Will legions of remote-wielding TV viewers start to think of their set-top box or broadband hub as a kind of shopping cart?
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BBC:
An online petition by former Australian PM Kevin Rudd calling for an inquiry into Murdoch's media dominance has garnered 500K signatures — An online petition by former Australian PM Kevin Rudd calling for an inquiry into Rupert Murdoch's media dominance has got a record number of signatures.
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