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Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York was hired as a senior legal analyst by CNN. The network also brought on Walter Shaub Jr., who resigned as director of the Office of Government Ethics in July, as a contributor. Since leaving office, Bharara has been active on a number of fronts. In addition to scoring a million-dollar book deal with Alfred A. Knopf and being named a “distinguished scholar in residence” by the NYU School of Law, he has amassed 400,000 Twitter followers and debuted a podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet.” The first episode of that podcast, “That Time President Trump Fired Me,” tells the story of his dismissal.
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While “Megyn Kelly Today” might be the high-profile new entry in the morning news arena next week, it has some company: news and entertainment site BuzzFeed. Starting September 25, “AM to DM” will be running daily at 10 a.m. on Twitter’s BuzzFeed News channel. Hosted by BuzzFeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald and executive editor for culture Saeed Jones, the show’s commercial format will resemble that of network television, though the number of ads running will be limited to four two-minute breaks. However, the show will also include the kind of viewer interaction that one would expect from its home on Twitter. The hosts will respond to viewer comments and will feature what they are referring to as “Fire Tweets,” some of the best Tweets of the day.
 Evan Langweiler |
Evan Langweiler, who started his career at NBC Universal as a page handling "Saturday Night Live," has risen through the ranks to become senior vice president, global communications, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. He moves to the post from the position of VP of global communications for Universal. In his new role, Langweiler will continue to oversee the studio’s strategic media relations plans, worldwide box office reporting, transactional announcements and picture release dates, while serving as the group’s primary staff writer. "Evan works closely with many of our filmmakers, has deep relationships with media and is well respected both internally and externally," said NBC Universal's exec vp global communications and corporate affairs Cindy Gardner.
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Hyperlocal news platform Patch saw a spike in traffic during both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Six thousand people read Patch's live updates of the storm, and its stories were shared more than 500 times on Facebook. The Patch newsletter also saw a surge in readership – the Florida edition added over 18,000 subscribers in just four days and in Texas, the newsletter had 3,000 new subscribers over the same period. “We were in a prime position to cover up-to-the-minute localized news including where to find gas, updates on power outages and open shelters,” said Patch CEO Warren St. John. The platform was owned by AOL before turnaround specialist Hale Global purchased a majority stake in the company in 2014.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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