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Condé Nast is pulling the plug on the print version of Glamour. The January issue of the magazine, set to hit newsstands Nov. 27, will be its last. Glamour is the latest Condé Nast brand to go all digital, following Self and Teen Vogue. Like Hearst’s Seventeen, which announced the end of its print publication last week, Glamour is keeping the door open for special print issues centered around such events as its Women of the Year awards. Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry, who came to the publication in January from CNN Worldwide, told the New York Times that digital is “where the audiences are, and it’s where our growth is.” The company says it plans to keep on with print editions of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Wired, GQ, the New Yorker, Allure, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest and Bon Appetit. The print version of Glamour currently has around 2.2 million subscribers. There are currently no plans to erect a paywall for its digital content.
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Amazon is one of several bidders for the 22 Fox regional sports networks that Disney was required to divest as part of its acquisition of a large slice of Fox’s assets in July, according to a report from CNBC. Amazon has been increasing its footprint in the sports arena. In addition to streaming the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, the company also recently made a deal to air 20 soccer matches from the English Premier League starting next year. Others in the first round of bidding for the networks include Apollo Global Management, KKR and Blackstone Group. YES Network, which is currently 20-percent owned by the New York Yankees, is part of the deal, and the Yankees are one of the bidders looking to acquire that property.
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Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studio's racial discrimination suits against Comcast and Charter Communications will move forward following two legal decisions issued on Nov. 19. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, CA overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss Allen’s suit against Comcast, and also affirmed an earlier decision denying Charter’s motion to dismiss Allen’s claims against the company. Both decisions say that Allen has made a plausible case that the refusal of Comcast and Charter to carry cable channels from Entertainment Studios is at least partly the result of racial discrimination. According to Variety, a similar case brought by Allen against AT&T in late 2015 was resolved when DirectTV, which is owned by AT&T, agreed to air seven of the company’s channels. Entertainment Studios channels include the Weather Channel as well as Cars.TV, Recipe.TV and JusticeCentral.TV. Allen has also expressed an interest in purchasing Tribune Media, which owns 42 TV stations.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
