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Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Disney + senior vice president of content Agnes Chu to serve as the division’s president. Chu has been at Disney since 2008 and before being named to her post at Disney + served as a story and franchise development executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, the company’s research and development arm. Chu succeeds current CNE president Oren Katzeff, who has faced allegations of racism in its video department. According to a report in Variety, Katzeff will take on a new position at the company, though details have not been released. Chu will oversee CNE’s digital video, TV and film division as well as the expansion of its dedicated brand studios for the New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said that “her leadership was instrumental to the success of one of the largest media launches in the last decade and we are thrilled for her to join us and help drive the continued growth of our brands and audience.”
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FOLIO: which has covered the magazine industry since 1972, has decided to eliminate its regular industry reporting. In a note on the publication’s website, Access Intelligence group publisher Bill Amstutz said that the Folio brand would continue to exist, with a focus on such aspects of its current business as executive roundtables and the Eddie and Ozzie Awards. “While we are winding down our daily news coverage, we will continue to celebrate our industry’s successes while innovating new ways to highlight achievements and create meaningful connections,” Amstutz said. Access Intelligence purchased Folio as part of its acquisition of Red7Media in 2011.
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.
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.
