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Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and new head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Thousands sign a letter protesting The New York Times' coverage of trans people, coordinated with a letter from GLAAD; a NYT statement defends the outlet's work — This story has been updated with a statement from The New York Times. — In the past year, page A1 of The New York Times …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.1B, operating income fell 93% YoY to $182M, and TV media income fell 7% to $5.9B; DTC revenue rose 30% YoY to $1.4B — The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network and the Paramount movie studio said that the costs of generating gains …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 77M global streaming subscribers at the end of 2022, up from 67M in Q3, 56M Paramount+ subscribers, and 78.5M Pluto TV MAUs, up 6.5M from Q3 — The conglomerate, led by CEO Bob Bakish, in its fourth-quarter results touts higher streaming revenue.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Paramount plans to raise the price of Paramount+ with ads to $5.99 per month and the premium tier with Showtime to $11.99 per month in 2023 — Paramount Global chief financial officer Naveen Chopra unveiled the pricing plan details and plans for a $1.3 billion-$1.5 billion impairment charge …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Atlanta-based Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news outlet for Black Americans, which has raised $12M, announces plans for a second newsroom in Gary, IN — Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news startup for Black Americans, has announced plans to launch its second local newsroom in Gary, Indiana.
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Erika Wheless / Ad Age:
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta launches Instagram Channels, a broadcast chat feature that lets select US creators share public, one-to-many text, images, and more with their followers — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a new broadcast chat feature on Instagram called “Channels.”
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Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the podcast industry, as a faltering ad market and recession fears increase the reluctance to fund projects without a path to short-term profitability — “The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.
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Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal:
Ryan Seacrest is leaving ABC's Live with Kelly and Ryan after joining in 2017 and will be replaced by Kelly Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos — He joined Kelly Ripa in the hosting chair in 2017 after his predecessor, Michael Strahan, left in dramatic fashion
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Ella Ceron / Bloomberg:
USC Inclusion Initiative: 16 of the 100 top-grossing films in 2022 featured women from racial and ethnic minority groups in leading roles, up from 1 in 2007 — Women of color are making gains at the US box office, as audiences showed up to support the female actors from underrepresented groups who led some of 2022's biggest movies.
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