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USA Today becomes the last major US daily to put up a paywall. While part of the paper’s content will remain free, a selection of stories will now be marked "subscriber only." The rest of Gannett’s papers have already made the switch to a subscription model. According to a July 7 note from USA Today editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll and publisher Maribel Perez Wadsworth, the money from the paywall will help fund its investigations unit and visual journalism. USA Today says its digital destinations receive approximately 90 million unique visitors per month.
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Bloomberg appoints Jason Angrisani as global chief marketing officer. Angrisani has been part of Bloomberg’s marketing department since 2010 and has helped implement a global planning framework, integrating marketing automation systems with Bloomberg’s proprietary technology. Before coming to Bloomberg, Angrisani was marketing director for IBM’s brand advertising team at Ogilvy & Mather. He will now oversee the marketing for all Bloomberg businesses globally. Bloomberg’s marketing organization is responsible for promoting the Bloomberg brand and engaging key audiences around the world.
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Knewz, a News Corp-backed news aggregation site that was intended to compete with Google and Facebook’s control over what articles users read, has shut down just 18 months after its launch. The site was partly a response to arguments within the news industry that Google and Facebook were not fairly compensating publishers. Curated by artificial intelligence and editors, Knewz promoted itself as publisher-friendly, pulling from sources across the political spectrum. The platform’s website now only has a farewell statement thanking its readers and points them toward such News Corp properties as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and MarketWatch.
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
Boston Globe Media acquires InstaTrac, a company that provides subscription-based services aimed at making government information easier to find, track, and understand... AARP names former New Republic CEO and publisher Michael Caruso as its SVP and chief content officer, unifying the organization's portfolio of media, live events and digital platforms... The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit, awards its inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellowships.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
