BuzzFeed Video Shows How Intern Becomes Full-Time Staffer
BuzzFeed Video: "I am asked all the time how I got my full-time job at BuzzFeed," says Merle Shane O'Neal. "My hope is that my story inspires you to take more chances on your career and challenges you to believe that your wildest dreams are...
ViacomCBS Chief, Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Dies at 97
CBS News: Sumner Redstone, a titan of the entertainment industry, has died. He was 97. Redstone was chairman emeritus of ViacomCBS, and chairman and CEO of National Amusements, the company's controlling shareholder. Redstone tranformed his father's small chain of...
Apple Enters First-Look Movie, TV Deal with Martin Scorsese
Deadline: Apple has inked a first-look deal with director Martin Scorsese. The master filmmaker will base his Sikelia Productions banner at Apple in a multi-year deal for film and television projects Scorsese will produce and direct for Apple TV...
Microsoft Lists Netflix, Hulu as New Competitors to Xbox Live
GeekWire: Microsoft said its official list of rivals is growing. "Xbox Live and our cloud gaming services face competition from various online gaming ecosystems. We also compete with other providers of entertainment services such as Netflix and...
Netflix Boosts Earnings for Highest-Paid Actors in Hollywood
Forbes: This year's 10 top-earning actors collected a combined $545.5 million, more than a quarter of that paid out by Netflix. The streaming giant cut $140.5 million worth of checks to six of the top 10. Dwayne Johnson was paid $23.5 million for the Netflix film "Red...
Google’s YouTube to Partner for Virtual New York Comic Con
CNBC: New York Comic Con won't be taking place at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan this year. Instead, the annual event will find a home online with Google's YouTube, due to ongoing concerns surrounding the coronavirus...
Fox Corp Plans $7-a-Month Live Global Streamer for Fox News
Reuters: Fox News Media said on Tuesday it would launch a live streaming service for international users to access its news and business television channels. The company has priced its Fox News International service at $6.99 per...
Disney Continues Its Stake in Parent of Live Streamer FuboTV
Motley Fool: Disney revealed in a regulatory filing that it continues to hold a stake in FaceBank, the parent company of live-TV streaming platform FuboTV, acquired with the acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Disney is well on its way to becoming a powerhouse in...
Discovery Founder’s CuriosityStream Enters Pact to Go Public
Bloomberg: CuriosityStream, a streaming platform for documentaries on science, history and other topics, has agreed to go public through a merger with Software Acquisition Group. The business was founded by Discovery Channel creator John...
Quibi Shifts Approach After Failed Launch of Mobile Streamer
Digiday: Maybe it isn’t too late for Quibi after all. Producers say the company's arrogance has abated as its strategy appears to be shifting from mobile-only unicorn to table-stakes streamer. Meanwhile, Quibi's weekly download rate has been on an upward...
Pinterest Former Operating Chief Makes Discrimination Claim
New York Times: Françoise Brougher, former chief operating officer of Pinterest, has accused the $21 billion company of firing her after she complained about sexist treatment. Brougher said she was given gendered feedback and paid less than her male...
Bloomberg Hit with More Discrimination Claims by Journalist
WWD: Bloomberg LP is again being accused of discriminating against women, and now against non-white staff members, according to a new lawsuit. Nafeesa Syeed on Monday sued the company in local New York court for discrimination based on her sex and her...
Hearst’s O, The Oprah Magazine Sells Out Issues in Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal: The latest edition of O, The Oprah Magazine is flying off the shelves in Louisville, Ky. It was already sold out at Barnes & Noble by Tuesday afternoon. There's a reason it's such a hot seller in...
Conde Nast Puts Spotlight on ‘The Uncounted’ at Teen Vogue
Fashionista: To mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Teen Vogue's August 2020 issue spotlights 10 women who are currently advocating for other people to have the right to vote. The women featured star on the cover in a collage...
News Corp’s WSJ Publisher Addresses News-Opinion Dispute
Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal's opinion pages "have always stood for the same values," writes publisher Almar Latour, in a letter to readers, "while staying rooted to the editorial board's philosophical commitment to 'free people, free...
New York Times Mulls Consumer Subscriptions at Wirecutter
Axios: The New York Times is in the early stages of researching a consumer subscription for its product recommendation site Wirecutter, according to a job description posted on LinkedIn. A central part of The Times's subscription strategy is providing services for...
Los Angeles Times Digital Subscription Push Irks Newsroom
TheWrap: Staffers describe an internal push for signing up new subscribers that threatens to overshadow quality journalism, a lack of transparency in subscription rates and an executive editor, Norman Pearlstine, who “falls asleep in important...
Bustle Digital Appoints Hearst Veteran to Oversee Zoe Report
WWD: Bustle Digital Group has tapped Kathy Lee for the editorial director role at The Zoe Report. She begins her new job on Aug. 24 and takes the reins from site director Lauren Caruso, who departed earlier this year. Lee is the latest hire from Hearst...
Time Out US Magazine Unlikely to Resume Publishing in Print
Financial Times: Time Out has published its first magazine following a pandemic freeze, but warned that its free printed urban listings are likely to disappear from many of the 40 cities it used to serve. The brand plans to resume in print only in London, Madrid and...
Report: Self-Published Zines Make Return During Quarantines
Salon: All across the country, artists and amateurs are creating their own "quaranzines" to reflect the ways in which they see the current reality, and as a way to assert that creating and consuming art remains a balm in troubled...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Axes Hundreds of Workers in Shakeup
Los Angeles Times: WarnerMedia began slashing its workforce Monday, laying off at least 600 employees as movie theater shutdowns and streaming competition ravage its film and TV business. The bulk of the job cuts came from Warner Bros....
Disney’s ‘Hamilton’ Streaming Audience Bests Netflix in July
Variety: How big was "Hamilton" for Disney+? Far bigger than anything on Netflix in July. A staggering 37% of US viewers watched the musical last month, almost three times the number that watched the second widest-reaching title of that month, Netflix's "Unsolved...
Comcast’s NBC Brings Late-Night to New Streamer Peacock
Associated Press: Peacock is launching a pair of weekly late-night comedy series with Larry Wilmore and Amber Ruffin to focus on current events. “We can’t wait to write sketches, songs and jokes about this terrible time we call now!” Ruffin said in a...
Disney Ditches ‘Fox’ Name in New Rebranding of TV Studio
The Verge: Disney's recently acquired 20th Century Fox TV studio is the latest to have the "Fox" name dropped, with the company announcing Monday that it will be rebranding the studio to just 20th Television, as part of a larger rebrand for all of Disney's TV...
Fox Corp News Expat Bill O’Reilly Nears New Deal on Radio
CNBC: Bill O'Reilly is on the brink of landing his own radio show at New York's 77 WABC, owned by John Catsimatidis, a longtime ally of President Trump who also owns the Gristedes grocery chain. O'Reilly's show is expected to debut in the...
Liberty Media Hits Pause on Boosting Stake in iHeartMedia
Hollywood Reporter: Greg Maffei addressed his company's interest in iHeartMedia after recently receiving antitrust approval to raise its stake. The Liberty Media CEO isn't in any hurry. "Clearly advertising is challenged in this environment and we want to watch and...
Disney to Screen Shelved ABC ‘Black-ish’ Episode on Hulu
Mediaite: A 2017 episode of "Black-ish," which ABC refused to air during the show's fourth season, will finally air on Hulu after the network relented to a request from series creator Kenya Barris. "Recognizing the importance of this moment, they listened and...
Amazon Relaunches Twitch Prime Service as Prime Gaming
TechCrunch: Amazon Prime is highlighting its offerings for gamers with the launch of a service called Prime Gaming. This is a new version of Twitch Prime, a service that Amazon launched four years ago tied to the popular game streaming platform that it acquired in...
IAC’s Barry Diller Places $1 Billion Bet on Digital Las Vegas
Financial Times: Barry Diller’s IAC has purchased a $1 billion stake in MGM Resorts, the gambling establishment business, for his most current bet in online media: video gaming. Diller revealed on Monday that he had collected a 12 percent stake in MGM...
Report: Podcasts Make a Comeback After Covid Slowdown
WWD: Listeners in the US of all podcasts dropped suddenly in March, when most of the country was on lockdown in an effort to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Since then, it seems podcast listening is on an...