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Big Tech giants Google and Facebook are the forces primarily responsible for the U.S. newspaper industry’s economic collapse, according to a report by the American Economic Liberties Project.
Facebook has hired Roy Austin, partner at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis law firm, as VP-civil rights, a new position at the social media company.
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Right-wing media outlets began circulating wild conspiracy theories after a mob of Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol Building on Wednesday. In some cases, they’ve continued to publish these false claims even after they’ve been debunked by major media networks and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Quibi, the short-form entertainment platform that was recently shuttered by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, will soon be available to stream for free on the ad-supported Roku Channel... Meredith unloads Travel + Leisure to Wyndham Destinations, a company that manages 230 timeshare resorts, for $100 million... Tampa Bay Times to close and sell its printing plant.
The New York Post Group names Keith Poole editor-in-chief. Poole is currently deputy editor-in-chief of the News Corp.-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun... The BBC is set to name Richard Sharp as its new chairman. He replaces David Clementi... McClatchy promotes Colleen McCain Nelson to executive editor of the Sacramento Bee and regional editor for California.
Crystal Brown, executive VP at Hager Sharp, will take the chief communications officer post at National Geographic Society on Jan. 11.
Media Matters names Fox News its Misinformer of the Year for 2020... Politico acquires E&E News, which covers energy and the environment... Amazon scoops up podcast creator and producer Wondery.
Vice Media’s Dominique Delport is stepping down as president of international and global chief revenue officer... Conde Nast expands Anna Wintour's domain... Fox News locks up Laura Ingraham.
Congressional Democrats want president Biden to launch a coordinated national effort to build America’s resilience to online misinformation and disinformation.
Reporters Without Borders has launched a global video campaign to highlight journalism’s role in exposing state violence, human rights abuses, public health emergencies and discrimination against women and immigrants.
MSNBC names Rashida Jones president, effective Feb. 1... The Miami Herald appoints Monica Richardson as executive editor, making her the first Black executive editor in the paper’s 117-year history... The Hartford Courant is the latest Tribune Publishing newspaper to abandon its newsroom.
Ed Wyatt, a 20-year reporter for the New York Times, has joined DC-based Precision Strategies as director of communications.
Trump supporters are ditching Fox News, creating an opportunity for once-obscure right-wing cable outlets to capitalize on a growing demand among viewers who appear to care less about being informed than having their fringe political views confirmed.
ESPN axes 300 people and eliminates 200 open jobs as the Disney unit struggles to score in rapidly changing sports arena... Sinclair Broadcast Group takes $3.2B hit for write-off portion of $10.6B Fox Regional Sports Networks deal... Gannett reports digitial subs top 1M mark in Q3 and net loss tops $31M.
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated U.S. newspapers, but TV news revenues have held steady.
While most journalists agree that the “fake news” era has dealt a major blow to the news industry, few believe the outcome of the November presidential election will affect the problem in any meaningful way.
Local newspapers will all but vanish within five years, largely due to the unfair and abusive practices of tech platforms, according to a report released Oct. 27 by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA).
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.
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