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New York Times:
Sources: WaPo is on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability, and CEO Fred Ryan has floated cutting 100 roles; WaPo says it is not cutting staff — With digital subscriptions and digital advertising revenue stagnating, the company is on pace to lose money this year.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl plans to leave in early 2023 after 12+ years as a senior executive; Google veteran Mary Ellen Coe will replace him — Robert Kyncl will exit YouTube in early 2023 after more than 12 years as a senior exec at video giant.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Twitter confirms rolling out customizable article preview cards called Tweet Tiles to The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal last week — Have you noticed that some news article cards on Twitter are looking a little different lately?
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American Press Institute and @jason_kint
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Social media election “war rooms” are set up to obscure the fact that misinformation and disinformation are integral parts of user-generated content platforms — Read to the end for a great Reddit post — The Election War Room Scam — We're less than three months away …
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@broderick, @ellievhall, PC Gamer, @nberlat, @venkatananth, @jaredlholt, @alexhern, @drewharwell, @jbenton and @carnage4life, more at Techmeme »
National Union of Journalists:
After Reach pay and workload talks break down, the UK's National Union of Journalists plans to strike on August 31 and from September 13 to September 15, 2022 — Following two days of negotiations over the bank holiday weekend, brokered by ACAS the arbitration service, talks between the NUJ and Reach have broken down with no deal.
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Press Gazette, @nuj_leicester, @nujofficial, @jimwaterson and @jimwaterson
Colin Stutz / Billboard:
Sony Music sues Triller, claiming Triller has failed to pay licensing fees for months while continuing to use Sony's catalog after Sony terminated their deal — The record label says it's owned millions in monthly payments and for copyright infringement since it terminated their licensing agreement earlier this month.
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Apple says the number of Apple Podcast subscribers grew by 300%+ since June 2021 and 25%+ of the top 100 shows in its Top Shows chart now offer a subscription — Dateline, NBC's true crime newsmagazine show, is offering a paid podcast subscription through Apple's in-app product starting today.
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AppleInsider, @simonowens and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Poynter and NewsGuild: Gannett's August 2022 layoffs cut at least 70 to 90 newsroom jobs, after a 35% drop in the newspaper's workforce from 2019 to 2021 — The latest cutbacks at Gannett come amid an industry-wide trend of shrinking newspaper newsrooms — The only full-time news reporter …
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Corbin Bolies / @corbinbolies:
Sources: Condé Nast's Allure magazine will end its print edition after its December issue and move to a digital-only model — SCOOP: @Allure_magazine will be ending its print run after its December issue, sources said, and it will feature Jennifer Aniston on the cover. The sudden announcement to staff last week had some afraid of layoffs, though a spokes said no changes are planned right now. Read: https://twitter.com/...
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@jeffjarvis and @cherylanneny
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time acquires Brandcast, which offers a no-code service for creating websites, and rebrands it as Time Sites; it's Time's first acquisition under the Benioffs — Time has bought Brandcast, a company that licenses software for easy-to-build marketing websites, Time's editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal told Axios.
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@axios, TIME, @markstenberg3 and @sarafischer
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at The Washington Post's deal with Imagine and CAA to create content based on its archive and current reporting; four projects are in active development — Brian Grazer, Bryan Lourd, and Fred Ryan dish on the DC paper's partnership with Imagine and CAA, which already has four projects in development.
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@vanityfair, @genepark, @alexnpress, @jacob_brogan, @petersagal and Washington Post
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
On the eve of its release, Regnery postpones Dinesh D'Souza's book 2000 Mules to October 25, citing a “publishing error” — Dinesh D'Souza's book version of “2000 Mules,” based on the film that makes widely debunked claims that people were paid to dump fraudulent ballots …
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@jamesrbuk and @willsommer
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Ad Practitioners, owner of the editorial titles Money and ConsumersAdvocate.org and the ad delivery service NavChain, has rebranded as Money Group — The six-year-old company is generating a nine-figure revenue, fueled by intent-based ads — The media company behind the editorial titles Money …
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Money Group and @markstenberg3
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