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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Ahead of a walkout by Netflix staff, Ted Sarandos says he “screwed up” internal messaging and acknowledges that “storytelling has real impact in the real world” — Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos s speaking out over continued criticism of the Dave Chappelle comedy special “The Closer.”
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue of $7.48B, up 16% YoY, operating income of $1.76B, up 33% YoY, and 214M paid subs, adding 4.4M YoY and beating estimates of 3.84M — - Netflix is set to report earnings after the bell Tuesday. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — Netflix shares were up more than 2% …
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Ahead of the Wednesday walkout, Netflix's trans employees release demands including putting a warning on transphobic content and boosting trans-affirming titles
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify partners with Shopify to let artists list merch on profiles for $29/month to $299/month, starting in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — Spotify on Wednesday announced a new partnership with ecommerce provider Shopify to let artists list merchandise directly on their profiles …
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Robert Sawyer / Press Gazette:
The Guardian appoints deputy opinion editor and columnist Joseph Harker to the newly created role of senior executive for diversity and development — The Guardian has appointed deputy opinion editor and columnist Joseph Harker as its new senior executive for diversity and development.
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William Earl / Variety:
Twitter partners with Variety to launch three Trending TV charts, ranking the most tweeted about TV shows across network TV and streaming — Variety and Twitter have partnered on a unique, first-of-its-kind chart that ranks the most tweeted about TV shows across network television and streaming.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AMC Networks announces an initiative to let advertisers use programmatic ad buying for live TV inventory — AMC Networks wants to make it possible for advertisers to buy time in linear broadcasts of “The Walking Dead” or “Better Call Saul” in the same way they do digital commercial inventory.
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Mubi, a streaming service offering art house movies, launches Mubi Go, which gives US subscribers theater passes to one selected movie per week, starting in NYC — EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi is launching a U.S. in-theater offering this month letting members see one film …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Superplastic, which owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” on social media, raises a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $38M — A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated …
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Spiegel Online:
Sources: the sacking of Bild EIC Julian Reichelt came after years of questionable conduct and Axel Springer showed no interest in disciplining him — The sacking of Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of Germany's top tabloid, only came after years of questionable conduct.
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@ddiamond, Columbia Journalism Review, @danieldrepper, @markdistef, @benyt, @benyt and @benyt
AllAccess.com:
Filing: John Malone's Liberty Media sold its entire stake in iHeartMedia, apparently ending Liberty's long-running effort to gain control of the broadcaster — What do you think? Add your comment below. — LIBERTY MEDIA CORP. has sold off its 5,941,248 shares of iHEARTMEDIA Class A Common Stock at $25.25/share.
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Washington Post:
The Washington Post names Kat Downs Mulder as chief product officer and managing editor, creating a hybrid role between news and engineering — Memo to staff from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee and CIO Shailesh Prakash: — To our colleagues, — We are happy to announce that Kat Downs Mulder …
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Talking Biz News, @raju, @washpostpr, The Hill and Axios
Jeff Kotuby / The Streamable:
Report: Netflix and YouTube had a combined 47% share of “connected TV time spent” in June, down just 2% from January 2020 despite growth in rival services — Netflix and YouTube may be far more dominant than we realize. — According to a report from LightShed Partners …
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SlashFilm, Cord Cutters News, @richlightshed, @richlightshed and LightShed Partners
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