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Meredith Corp. continues to tinker with the print frequency and subscription status of several of its titles. Rachael Ray Every Day is going from a 10-issues-per-year subscription status to a quarterly journal that will only be sold on newsstands. The first issue of the quarterly is set to go on sale in January. Current subscribers to the magazine will now receive fellow Meredith title Eating Well. The company is moving in the opposite direction with Coastal Living, which is selling subscriptions again after shifting to a newsstand-only status last year. It says the move is a result of the “resounding consumer demand and success” of the newsstand edition. Meredith is also considering bringing back subscriptions for Cooking Light and Traditional Home, both of which have gone the newsstand-only route.
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Three Ohio newspapers will be going from daily publication to a three-days-a-week schedule as part of Apollo Global Management’s acquisition of Cox TV stations and newspapers, according to a report in the New York Post. The $3.1 billion deal, which was OK’d by the FCC, will require the Dayton Daily News, the Journal-News in Hamilton, OH and the Springfield News-Sun to cut their frequency as a way of getting around FCC rules banning the same owner from running a TV station and a daily newspaper in the same market. The regulation had not previously applied to Cox because the company had started Dayton’s WHIO TV station in 1949 and the rules restricting media consolidation did not go into effect until 1975.
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Condé Nast has named Stan Duncan as its first global chief people officer, part of a move by the company to consolidate its US and international operations. Former US chief people officer JoAnn Murray is stepping down. Duncan comes to the company from Raymond James Financial, where he served as chief human resources officer. He has also been vice president, global head of human resources for Westfield Group and held similar positions at Aramark, Sterling Chemicals and PPG Industries. His remit at Condé Nast will be to oversee areas including talent acquisition and development, HR technology, workforce planning and strategic business partnering. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said that Duncan’s experience in multiple industries will aid the company “as we work to unify and develop our global team and enter our next phase of growth.”
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.
Trump Media & Technology Group is discussing a spin-off of the Truth Social platform following the expected closing of its $6B merger deal with TAE Technologies... Condé Nast sells off Them, the digital LGBTQ-focused platform it launched in 2017, to Equalpride, publisher of Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Health PLUS Wellness and Pride.com... CBS News has parted ways with longevity influencer Peter Attia, one of the 19 contributors that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss brought on as part of her plan to present a wider variety of voices on the platform. 
Symbolic.ai forms a partnership with News Corp to begin using the company’s AI-native publisher platform in the newsrooms of News Corp publications to augment research, writing and publishing... Mediaite launches a newsletter that promises to give readers a summary of—media newsletters... The Fund for American Studies launches the Journalism Excellence Fellowship, a program that will provide promising young journalists the opportunity to work alongside top writers, reporters, and media professionals.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has roots going back to 1786, is going out of business, the paper’s owners, Block Communications, announced on Jan. 7... GQ editor Will Welch is stepping down to take on a new Paris-based role with the musician Pharrell, who is also men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton... Semafor says it has raised $30 million on a $330 million valuation, following its first profitable year. 
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
