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Piers Morgan is joining News Corp and Fox News, where he will have a TV show in early 2022, and will also be a columnist at The Sun and the New York Post — - New global TV show will air on weeknights in the UK, USA and Australia; — Morgan will publish two weekly columns online for the New York Post and The Sun;
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News UK announces the launch of talkTV, a linear and OTT channel featuring news, opinion, and sports shows, in early 2022 — News UK is to launch a new channel, talkTV, in early 2022. — The channel will be streamed live and made widely available on all platforms including linear TV …
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Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Music-annotating startup Genius sells its assets to MediaLab for $80M; MediaLab says it will cut some jobs in original content production teams — The sale price is less than the total funding raised. — Music-annotating startup Genius Media Group Inc., a site that drew attention in part …
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021 — Whatnot, a live streaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops …
Mark Scott / Politico:
A look at EU Reporter, which portrays itself as an independent media organization while regularly failing to add disclosures to paid-for content — Brussels news outlet EU Reporter's blend of corporate press releases, original news and paid-for content makes it impossible for readers to determine who's behind the coverage.
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Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal:
China erased Zhao Wei, its biggest movie star who had 86M Weibo followers, from its internet on August 26, amid a clampdown on its entertainment industry — Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry
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Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
The SCOTUS press corps, dominated by older white men, has actively denied the court's shift to the right, clearly shown by extremist shadow docket decisions — The conservative takeover of the Court is putting traditional legal media to the test. The results are not encouraging.
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@jaywillis, bookforum.com, @perrybaconjr, @ballsstrikes, @imillhiser, @froomkin, Balls and Strikes and The Guardian
Matthew Keys / FierceVideo:
Next month, Fox News will formally launch Fox Weather, a free streaming weather network with a website and mobile apps; Sharri Berg will serve as president — Fox Corporation is hoping to replicate its success in the fields of general entertainment, news and sports with the launch of a new …
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Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
YouTube launches its first podcast, The Upload, which will feature interviews with YouTube stars on how they created their businesses — As all social platforms look to implement more ways to enable creators to monetize their on-platform efforts, with a view to keeping them posting to their apps more often …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google News Showcase is launching in Japan and signs partnerships with more than 40 national, regional and local news organizations — In late 2020, Google unveiled a $1 billion news licensing program to support publishers by surfacing card-based content across its platforms.
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American Press Institute, @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, Kyodo News+ and The Keyword
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources: LeBron James' SpringHill is in advanced talks for an investment from Fenway Sports Group, RedBird Capital, and Nike, valuing it around $650M-$700M — While the NBA legend and his longtime business partner Maverick Carter have expressly told potential suitors they are not looking …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Top newsrooms won't acknowledge the straight line from the Iraq War to January 6 riot because it would involve admitting decades of poor coverage of GOP's lies — (I'm relaunching Press Watch today after taking some time to deal with other things and think about the site's future. Thanks for bearing with me.
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