-
Sam Thielman / FOREVER WARS: Sam Thielman, a freelancer Substack hired to edit several writers, says he was fired in retaliation against a writer he edited who chose to move to Ghost -
Jesse Brown / CANADALAND: Sources: Bell Media's VP of News Michael Melling fired CTV's Lisa LaFlamme for pushing back against his ideas; Melling also interfered with CTV's news coverage -
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: Canadian broadcaster CTV's chief news anchor Lisa LaFlamme says she has been forced out of the network; CTV parent Bell Media cites “changing viewer habits” -
Alex Sherman / CNBC: Mark Hoffman, CNBC's president since 2005 and chairman since 2015, will step down on September 12; KC Sullivan will return to CNBC to replace him as president -
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: Nielsen strikes a deal with Amazon to measure Thursday Night Football, the first time a streaming service will be included in Nielsen's weekly TV viewing report -
Reuters: Walmart partners with Paramount to include the $4.99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription -
Sara Fischer / Axios: To expand into niche areas, Morning Brew debuts a creator program letting independent writers work for the company full time while keeping their distinct brands -
Anya Schiffrin / Poynter: Former chair of the commission that began Australia's news bargaining code: AU$200M+ from Google and Meta is being injected into Australian journalism annually -
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Jezebel, The 19th, The Cut, and other women-centric publications that support abortion rights have seen a surge in readership since SCOTUS reversed Roe v. Wade -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify is testing an audio feature in Vietnam that prompts users to record reactions to playlists, which will be posted as podcast episodes -
Rebecca Sun / The Hollywood Reporter: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, who suffered harassment and discrimination at the 1973 Oscars -
Sara Guaglione / Digiday: BuzzFeed says 50%-75% of its US ad transactions use first-party data product Lighthouse, as the service expands to the UK, Canada, Australia, and Latin America -
New York Times: Penguin Random House CEO Madeline McIntosh defends the Simon & Schuster acquisition in the DOJ antitrust trial, arguing the industry is vast and varied -
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Nexstar will absorb The CW's debt but won't pay any cash or stock up front for its stake and wants to make The CW profitable by 2025, partly through cost cuts -
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Nexstar plans to buy a 75% stake in The CW from Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, both of which will retain 12.5% stakes and supply scripted content