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6:35 PM ET, August 5, 2021

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Texas Tribune names Sewell Chan as its editor-in-chief, starting October 18; Chan currently oversees the LA Times' editorial board and opinion section  —  Mr. Chan, who became The Times's editorial page editor last year, will be the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune starting Oct. 18.
Gilad Edelman / Wired:
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”  —  The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics.  Whose privacy, exactly?
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker sign a six-year, $900M+ deal with ViacomCBS for 14 spinoff movies for Paramount+ and episodes for Comedy Central  —  The expanding ‘South Park’ universe will include new movies for Paramount+  —  The creators of “South Park” …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ViacomCBS Q2: net income of $1.04B on $6.6B revenue; 6.5M new streaming subscribers for 42M total; new deal with Sky will bring Paramount+ to Europe in 2022  —  ViacomCBS said second quarter profit rose as advertisers spent more robustly on its media assets and the company saw new revenue from a host of streaming initiatives.
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum:
[Thread] Memo from CNN's Jeff Zucker: the company has fired three employees in the last week who had been coming into the office unvaccinated  —  CNN terminated “three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” per memo from Jeff Zucker. “We have a zero-tolerance policy on this.”
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: CNN execs floated the idea of a temporary leave for Chris Cuomo in May if he wanted to formally advise his brother on reacting to sex harassment claims  —  Chris Cuomo, the top-rated host, left some colleagues confused after he did not acknowledge the calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation during his Tuesday show.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:   Sources: Jeff Zucker is staying at WarnerMedia at least until the merger with Discovery closes
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Lionsgate Q1 revenue rose to $901.2M, up 11% YoY and in line with expectations; global subscriber levels totaled 28.9M, down from 29.5M the prior quarter  —  Lionsgate reported results that hurdled the expectations bar, but reflected a quarter-to-quarter slowdown at Starz.
Matt Skibinski / NewsGuard:
NewsGuard/Comscore on digital ad spending: $2.6B goes to “misinformation” sites globally each year; for every $2.16 sent to US newspapers, misinfo sites get $1  —  An analysis of programmatic advertising data conducted by NewsGuard and Comscore finds that misinformation publishers …
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom study: Netflix's UK customer base is now bigger than the total of all UK pay-TV subs; UK has 31M subscribers to streaming services, up from 20M in 2019  —  Some 52% of U.K. households have a Netflix subscription and 29 of the top 30 shows on subscription services in the first quarter …
StreetInsider.com:
Penn National Gaming, which owns Barstool Sports, is buying betting and media company theScore for approximately $2B in cash and stock  —  Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENN) (and Score Media and Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCR) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement …
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Source: Hello Sunshine, which sold at a valuation of $900M, is expected to reach $125M in revenue this year and generated $65M last year  —  Since a Blackstone-led group agreed to buy Hello Sunshine at a valuation of $900 million this week, there's been lots of talk about the rich prices Hollywood studios …
Discussion: @jtoonkel
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media and Ebony announce a year-long content-sharing collaboration to cross-pollinate the Bloomberg Equality and Ebony audiences  —  Bloomberg Media and Ebony are teaming up to make Black stories more visible.  The two publishers announced a year-long content-sharing collaboration …
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Reuters:
Thomson Reuters beats expectations with Q2 operating profit of $316M, down 14% YoY, on revenue of $1.53B, up 9% YoY; Reuters News' sales rose 6% YoY to $168M
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to debut iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on October 28 and unveil a new iPad mini and Macs in late October; some could ship from November 1

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS' AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investing in open source, open sourcing projects, and more

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules

 
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