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New York Times:
Katty Kay, a former BBC anchor who recently joined Ozy, resigns, citing NYT's reporting on the company — The embattled digital media company Ozy lost one of its biggest stars on Wednesday, when Katty Kay, a former BBC anchor, announced on Twitter that she had resigned.
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Axios:
Sources: in an extremely rare move, SV Angel, led by VC Ron Conway, informed Ozy that it will give up stock acquired in 2012 — One of OZY Media's earliest investors has surrendered its shares in the beleaguered company, Axios has learned. — Driving the news: SV Angel …
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Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
Sources detail how 2019's Ozy Fest would have exposed Ozy's untruths, before it was canceled due to a heatwave and gave the company a large insurance windfall — I'm a British-born reporter covering breaking news for Forbes. — I cover tech companies for Forbes.
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Ozy CEO Carlos Watson steps down as host of the Emmys' documentary segment after NYT's report on an Ozy co-founder impersonating a YouTube exec on a bank call
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Ozy brands itself as identifying people who will be famous and influential ahead of other outlets, but a close examination shows the claim is untrue
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Mark Stenberg / Medialyte:
As recipe publishers adopt grocery commerce, or g-commerce, some sites sacrifice intuitive design to add more ads for ingredients and tools, curdling utility — An untimely pop-up can be the difference between over-easy and over-cooked. — A song to read by: “John the Baptist,” by John & Beverley Martyn
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Interview with New Yorker archives editor Erin Overbey, who has worked at the magazine for 27 years, about her tweet thread on the magazine's lack of diversity — Erin Overbey took on a painstaking research project for herself in 2019. Combing through back issues of the New Yorker …
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Wall Street Journal:
Profile of Brian Robbins, founder of AwesomenessTV and former actor, producer, and Nickelodeon chief, who was promoted a month ago to run Paramount Pictures — The actor-turned-producer is set to guide the iconic studio in the streaming era — When “Paw Patrol: The Movie,” …
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Bloomberg:
After raising $155M in April, Patreon plans to invest in original programming by podcasters, video game livestreamers, YouTubers, and major celebrities — In today's Silicon Valley, land of buzzwords, there may be none buzzier than “creator”—the tech industry's chosen way to refer to someone …
Robert Feder:
Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Public Media confirm talks to “become a combined entity” — Top executives of the Chicago Sun-Times and the parent company of public radio station WBEZ 91.5-FM confirmed a report here Wednesday that talks are underway on a partnership agreement between the two organizations.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom says British TV and radio broadcasters remain “woeful” at promoting staff from diverse backgrounds to senior management positions — Recruitment of people of colour and disabled staff into junior roles yet to be replicated at senior level
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ViacomCBS-owned Pluto TV will pay $3.5M to settle an FCC investigation that found the video streaming service violated closed captioning rules — According to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, in addition to paying the civil penalty, Pluto TV agreed to enter into a compliance plan to ensure …
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Q&A with Fortune's new EIC Alyson Shontell on being a female EIC, plans to keep the print magazine, and the need to define the publication's focus — On Oct. 6, Alyson Shontell will become Fortune's next editor in chief, succeeding Clifton Leaf, who stepped down after four years at the helm.
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