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Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times:
Sources: in early 2020, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner criticized Adidas in 20+ articles in Bild for freezing rents without disclosing being Adidas' landlord — Mathias Döpfner orchestrated stories against company for pausing rents without disclosing his interest
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John Koblin / New York Times:
CNN plans to completely revamp its morning show in late October, adding hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins, in Chris Licht's biggest move yet — The morning slot will be hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. The move leaves open Mr. Lemon's prime-time slot.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon and Apple passed on media rights to Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which also hasn't been able to strike a deal with ESPN, CBS, NBC, or Fox — Tech giants were approached by upstart golf league but didn't express interest, joining list of media platforms
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon prepares for its first regular season Thursday Night Football game in its exclusive NFL streaming deal, advertising the game heavily on its shopping site — “It wasn't that long ago I had no idea what streaming was, as did a lot of us,” says Al Michaels.
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New York Post, TechCrunch, Variety, CNN and About Amazon
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Tony Gallagher, deputy editor of Murdoch's The Times, is being lined up to be its new editor, with its current boss, John Witherow, expected to leave — Announcement expected of editor John Witherow's departure and his deputy's promotion — Tony Gallagher is being lined …
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Local newsletter network 6AM City says it's in 25 cities, reports $3.5M in 2021 revenue, and expects to hit ~$10M in 2022 revenue ahead of profitability in 2023 — Press Gazette has listed the biggest newsletter-based publishers in the world and spoken to several about how to build an email-based news business.
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@pressgazette and The Rebooting
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu, if Disney would sell; Disney's CEO has said he wants Comcast's third — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called Hulu a “phenomenal business” — and said that if Disney were willing to sell it …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Inside labor unrest at The New York Times, where both star reporters and new enlistees are frustrated with pay offers and union members are discussing a strike — As much of the media industry sank beneath the digital waves in the last decade, the New York Times became something like Noah's ark …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta's Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes it for removing a cartoon of police violence in Colombia — California's antitrust lawsuit claims customers have “nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it.”
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@oversightboard and @russellbrandom, more at Techmeme »
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Henry Fuhrmann, a former LA Times editor, has died; he also was an adjunct journalism professor and active member at AAJA and ACES: The Society for Editing — No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen. In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or …
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Inside Radio:
Sweden-based podcast network Acast plans to lay off 15% of its staff, or about 60 employees, this month as it seeks profitability by 2024 — Acast is moving up the date by which the company aims to turn profitable, and to achieve that it has announced it will cut its current workforce by 15% or about 60 employees.
Discussion:
Bloomberg
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Some YouTube viewers say the platform's ads expanded in length and quantity over the past month or two, with reports of five to 10 unskippable ads per break — The experience of watching YouTube has been infiltrated by ads over the years as a means of maintaining the platform and supporting creators financially.
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