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The Washington Post names Bloomberg's David Shipley as editor of its editorial page... The Italian edition of Harper’s Bazaar, which launched in digital-only form in the fall of 2020, is moving into print... Newspapers are disappearing at the rate of two a week.
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Trust in media in the United States is lower than any other country in the world, which has resulted in a rising number of Americans who are now actively avoiding the news altogether, according to a Reuters Institute report.
Substack's woes are, at least in part, a result of the hype associated with the platform. There is a downside to leveraging hype as a tool for promotion.
Justice Dept. issues subpoenas to Digital World Acquisition Corp., which is taking Donald Trump's social media platform public, regarding the deal.
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Netflix looks to be gaining a new ad-supported tier and losing about 300 employees... The International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter launches a Legal Support Fund that will offer financial assistance to fact-checking organizations that face threats of harassment, intimidation and litigation... The final print edition of London’s Time Out, which focused on listings of entertainment venues and other events, has hit the stands.
Pride Media, which owns Out, Out Traveler, Advocate, Plus and Pride.com, is acquired by Equal Entertainment and rebranded as Equal Pride... Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, drops Spotify and opts for Amazon's Audible... Mark Shields, political columnist/pundit, dies at 85.
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Forbes pulls the plug on its plans to go public via a special-purpose acquisition company... Creem, the magazine that was Rolling Stone’s slightly edgier cousin during its 1969 to 1989 run, is coming back... Gannett has split its media properties from its digital marketing business in a corporate restructuring.
Bloomberg is launching Bloomberg UK to compete with The Financial Times and The Sunday Times... National Geographic Media signs up Expedia Group global head of editorial and entertainment Nathan Lump as editor-in-chief, effective June 6... My Code, acquires a majority stake in Hispanic news and information company Impremedia.
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Russia’s military pushes against Vladimir Putin as it balks at following his political orders that have led to disaster in Ukraine.
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Owing to a lukewarm reception, CNN’s heavily publicized streaming platform CNN+ is shutting down less than a month after its launch.
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The New York Times names Joe Kahn, who has been the paper’s managing editor since 2016, to the paper’s top newsroom job. He will replace Dean Baquet... Infowars, the website founded by Alex Jones, has filed for bankruptcy... Wendy Rieger, who anchored the 5 p.m. newscast on Washington, DC’s NBC4 for more than two decades, died on April 16.
Rosemary Mercedes, who stepped down from her executive VP/chief communications officer post at Univision last March after a 15-year stint, has joined BBC Studios, Americas.
The New York Times is pulling its staff out of Russia due to the country’s suppression of the free press and the new law that threatens 15 years of jail time for those who report “fake news,” which is generally defined as information that counters Putin’s propaganda.
Neil Ripley, who has more than 20 years of media and technology experience, will join NBCUniversal’s advertising and partnerships division unit as VP-communications on March 14.
NBCUniversal says that the Beijing Winter Olympics racked up the smallest prime-time audience ever recorded for the games... Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social-networking platform, is up and running—sort of...Tegna, which owns 64 TV stations, is acquired via a partnership deal between private equity firms Standard General and Apollo Global Management.
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ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount, but investors don’t seem too bullish on the company’s performance... P.J. O’Rourke, a writer who was a walking definition of “political incorrectness,” died of lung cancer on Feb. 15. He was 74... Lee Enterprises scores victory in bid to fend off hostile takeover.
Forbes receives $200M cash infusion from Binance, cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure company... Dotdash Meredith ends print runs of Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, Eating Well, Health, Parents and People en Español... The European Publishers Council lodges a complaint with the European Commission against Google for its ad tech practices.
Despite the quick decision made in the Jeff Zucker incident, the whole matter of romance in the workplace is still filled with more questions than answers.
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