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Antoinette Siu / The Wrap: 3 hours ago
BuzzFeed, which bought Complex Networks and HuffPost in 2021, reports Q1 revenue of $91.6M, up 26% YoY, and a net loss of $44.6M; stock down ~10% after hours
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: 4 hours ago
Argentina's Chequeado and Spain's Maldita.es, both fact-checking orgs, launch Factchequeado to address misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the US
Todd Spangler / Variety: 4 hours ago
Snap's head of originals Vanessa Guthrie will leave at the end of June 2022, to be replaced by Anjuli Millan, head of production for Snap Originals
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Marriott launches the Marriott Media Network in partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers target consumers on the TVs in their rooms
New York Times:
Paradise Media sells literary magazine The Believer to its original owner McSweeney's at a “meaningful” loss, after an uproar over hosting clickbait content
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed, which bought Complex Networks and HuffPost in 2021, reports Q1 revenue of $91.6M, up 26% YoY, and a net loss of $44.6M; stock down ~10% after hours
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
A look at C-SPAN's social media and monetization efforts as its cable fee revenue, 98% of its budget, has fallen from a $70M peak to an estimated <$50M in 2022
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Argentina's Chequeado and Spain's Maldita.es, both fact-checking orgs, launch Factchequeado to address misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the US
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ahead of midterms, some major media polls are now reaching respondents via texts and emails to supplement phone calling, after presidential election misses
Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Deadline says it won't publish an interview with Cannes head Thierry Frémaux, after the festival demanded copy approval and removed answers about diversity
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix executives have discussed a test to release a few movies with a longer window of about 45 days in thousands of theaters later this year
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount appoints Marco Nobili as international general manager of Paramount+ and plans to expand Paramount+ and SkyShowtime to 60 markets by the end of 2022
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Washingtonian names Sherri Dalphonse, currently executive editor, as its new editor; she will be the first woman to edit the city magazine
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify confirms it is testing a feature that lets select artists promote “third-party NFT offerings” on their profiles, visible to Android users in the US
Selome Hailu / Variety:
In a memo to staff, David Zaslav elaborates on Warner Bros. Discovery's priorities, including combining HBO Max and Discovery+, bolstering CNN, and more
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