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WarnerMedia slates thousands of job cuts to chop overhead by 20 percent... Canadian Broadcasting Corp. slices 130 jobs in "resizing"... New York Times editor Dean Baquet may head west.
Ogilvy's Nadja Bellan-White has joined Vice Media Group as global chief marketing officer. She starts at the end of October.
Yashica Olden, WPP’s executive director of diversity & inclusion for the past five months, is joining Condé Nast on Oct. 26.
Sundance Institute chief marketing officer Mike Monroe is heading to Penske Media for the CMO and head of PMC Studios slot.
Fox Corp. slashed the 2020 compensation of chairman Rupert Murdoch and his executive chairman/CEO son, Lachlan, in the aftermath of the sale of its entertainment assets to Walt Disney Co. in March 2019. (4 reader comments)
Meredith is giving 180 employees (about 3.6 percent of its workforce) the boot... Chris Spadaccini is exiting his post as chief marketing officer at WarnerMedia Entertainment. He's the latest in a wave of departures from the AT&T unit... Penske Media, which runs Variety, Rolling Stone, WWD and Deadline, has formed a partnership with The Hollywood Reporter parent company MRC.
Fox News is restructuring its business operations, a move that will trim almost three percent of its workforce.
Cable TV pioneer Charles Dolan, 93, is stepping down as executive chairman of AMC Networks... Red Ventures makes move on CNET Media Group... Aya Kanai, editor-in-chief at Maire Claire takes chief of content post at Pinterest.
Former Fox News and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly launches Devil May Care Media, a self-funded venture which will produce content discussing news, current events, legal and cultural issues... Meredith Corp. proposes proposing a change to its charter that could pave the way for the company to split up its magazine holdings and TV stations into two separate businesses... Hearst Magazines has named Asad Syrkett editor in chief of Elle Decor, effective Sept. 14.
Gannett has hired board member Mayur Gupta as chief marketing & strategy officer effective Sept. 8 for the job of transforming the media company to a subscription-led content business.
Condé Nast names Simon & Shuster VP Dawn Davis editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit... The Federal Communications Commission denies AMC’s request for a standstill order that would preserve the network’s current program carriage agreement with AT&T... Facebook threatens to stop allowing publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram if new regulation is passed.
Americans exhibit an alarming lack of confidence regarding the news industry’s ability to provide truthful, transparent reporting that forms a connection with audiences, according to a Pew Research Center report. (1 reader comment)
A majority of Americans now consider the spread of fake news to be among the worst societal issues facing the country, according to a report from the Institute for Public Relations.
Americans’ trust in TV news coverage has surged, according to a recent survey. Viewers’ trust in President Trump, on the other hand, continues to be eclipsed by favorability toward Joe Biden. (1 reader comment)
A growing number of Americans believe the media is deliberately misleading the public in an attempt to push a political agenda. (1 reader comment)
NBCUniversal axes vice chairman Ron Meyer for paying hush-money to a woman with whom he said he had “a very brief and consensual affair with many years ago."... Vice’s Motherboard tech vertical is launching The Mail, a weekly pop-up newsletter about the United States Postal Service... Meredith Corp. sues theMaven, the new owner of Sports Illustrated.
Tribune Publishing is shutting down the New York Daily News newsroom, one of several newsroom closures that the company announced Aug. 12. (2 reader comments)
Keith Cocozza, executive VP marketing & communications at WarnerMedia, is out as Jason Kilar, who became CEO on May 1, reorganizes the AT&T unit to simplify operations in order to better service its customers. (1 reader comment)
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson reports a 22 percent decline in Q4 revenues (ended June) to $1.9B and a $401M net loss, compared to a $42M deficit a year ago.
The New York Times Company says that its digital revenue exceeded print revenue for the first time ever during the second quarter.
James Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and son of media baron Rupert Murdoch, has quit the board of family-controlled News Corp, owner of Fox News, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Times of London and Australian newspapers.
Condé Nast Entertainment hires Disney + senior VP of content Agnes Chu to serve as the division’s president... FOLIO:, which has covered the magazine industry since 1972, has decided to eliminate its regular industry reporting.
Hearst Magazines president Troy Young quits day after NYT runs story alleging that he created a toxic environment at the company... Washington Post settles MAGA hats lawsuit... The New York Times Company is acquiring Serial Productions, producer of the “Serial” podcast.
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