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Condé Nast parts ways with Alexi McCammond, who was hired as editor of Teen Vogue on March 5. Her departure follows complaints from readers, the publication’s employees and two major advertisers (Burt’s Bees and Ulta Beauty) over a series of racist and homophobic tweets that she had posted more than a decade ago. McCammond, who covered the Biden campaign for Axios and served as a contributor to MSNBC and NBC, had apologized for the tweets in 2019. Condé Nast chief executive Roger Lynch and chief content officer Anna Wintour had been aware of some of the tweets before McCammond was hired.
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The Boston Globe opinion staff, along with the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, is bringing The Emancipator, a pre-Civil War abolitionist newspaper, back to life as a new media platform. A biweekly newsletter called Unbound, named after one of the first issues of an early abolitionist newspaper, will also be published. “This project will amplify critical voices, ideas, and evidence-based opinion in an effort to reframe the national conversation and hasten racial justice,” a statement on The Emancipator’s website said. Set to launch later this year, the platform will be free, with sponsorship from yet-to-be-named philanthropic sources. The Globe is currently conducting a search for two co-editors-in-chief.
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The National Football League has signed long-term agreements with Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC. Fox, CBS and NBC are each set to pay $2 billion annually, about twice the amount they are paying in their current deals. ESPN will see the price of its Monday Night Football package jump from $2 billion to $2.7 billion, and Amazon will fork over about $1 billion for its right to exclusively stream Thursday night games. The amounts being paid reflect the dominance of the NFL in the broadcasting—and streaming—industry. According to NFL.com, 24 of the top 25, and 77 of the top 100 most-watched programs on television over the past five years have been NFL games.
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.
