Conde Nast’s Vogue: ‘I Think Things Are About to Change’
New York Post: Naomi Campbell, discussing Anna Wintour's recent comments on Vogue's lack of diversity on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen," seemed hopeful about the future of the glossy magazine: "I think things are about to change, don't you?” she asked....
Meredith’s People Magazine is Pulled Into Markle Lawsuit
Daily Mail: Meghan Markle believes naming the five female friends who briefed People magazine about her and a letter sent to her father Thomas would be an "unacceptable price to pay" for pursuing a claim against the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, the High Court heard...
McClatchy News Expresses Support for Black Lives Matter
Poynter: Were McClatchy journalists in danger of losing their jobs if they showed public support for Black lives? To be clear: no. Some, however, were afraid they would be fired. That's why Kristin Roberts, McClatchy's vice president of news, sent out a tweet on...
Gannett, Tribune Early US Newspapers Helped Sell Slaves
Daily Beast: Some of America's first newspapers – a handful of which today are owned by Gannett, News Corp. and Tribune – commonly published advertisements to sell slaves. Newspaper editors, including Benjamin Franklin, even stepped in to help connect buyers and...
Axel Springer Boosts Hiring at Blodget’s Business Insider
Institutional Investor: There are no layoffs at Business Insider, which is now part of a larger site called simply Insider — a nod to a new expansion of its reporting focus beyond the business world. In fact, Insider is hiring: More than 30 editorial job listings for...
BuzzFeed’s Laid Off British Employees Find New Positions
Press Gazette: BuzzFeed closed its UK news operation during the Covid-19 lockdown, leading to journalists losing their jobs. It was the first major casualty of the downturn brought about by the pandemic. But many of the former website's editorial team have since...
Access Intelligence Closes Magazine-Industry Trade Folio
Bo Sacks: Folio magazine is no more. The demise is unfortunate but understandable. Our industry is under extreme duress, and so too are trade organizations that track our industry. ...It is all a reflection of the realignment of the content distribution business...
Media Giants Face a Future as Clear as Mud, Analyst Says
RBR-TVBR: Michael Nathanson, senior analyst at MoffettNathanson, says he senses a "tremendous" level of discomfort among internet advertising and media names. "There are massive unanswered questions about the direction that the Covid-19 pandemic will take and how it...
Tech Giants Fortify CEOs to Testify Before US Lawmakers
CNET: The CEOs of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google cast their companies as icons of American ingenuity in opening remarks as they gear up for a highly anticipated antitrust hearing with legislators on Wednesday. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar...
Ad Giants Shed Staffers, Make Changes in ‘Big Correction’
New York Times: Omnicom Group says revenue in its second quarter slumped nearly 25 percent and that the decline "is expected to continue for the remainder of the year." Like many of its peers, it laid off 6,100 employees, shed more than 1 million square feet of space,...
Comcast Studio Inks Landmark Deal for Early Home Movies
Los Angeles Times: Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres are agreeing on a pact to release big Hollywood films in the home much sooner than ever before. Under the new agreement, theaters will have exclusive rights to first show Universal movies for at least three...
CAA Cuts, Furloughs Nearly 20 Percent of Agency Staffers
Los Angeles Times: Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest Hollywood talent agencies, says it is laying off 90 agents and executives this week and furloughing 275 staffers. The cost-cutting measures are among the most sweeping to date in the agency business and...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Says HBO Max Lures Young Viewers
MediaPost: HBO Max users are "significantly younger" than subscribers to traditional HBO, with 23% falling between the ages of 18 and 24, according to WarnerMedia. The company says, without providing viewership data, that "Friends" is the most-watched show on HBO Max...
Lionsgate, BuzzFeed Team on Films for Young Audiences
Media Play News: Lionsgate and BuzzFeed have announced a new partnership to develop, produce and distribute a multi-picture slate of "socially relevant and high-concept feature films for global millennial and Gen Z audiences." Lionsgate will greenlight full-length...
Fox Corp Touts News Channel as Most-Watched in Cable
Fox News: Fox News Channel says it finished July as the most-watched cable network for the 49th straight month, marking the network's best July in history. Fox News averaged 3.2 million prime time viewers and 1.6 million total viewers to finish atop all of basic cable...
Netflix Scores Record 160 Nominations for Emmy Awards
CNET: Netflix spends billions of dollars every year making TV programming, more than any competitor -- and in the Emmy nominations, it showed. Netflix earned a record 160 nominations, the most ever for a single network, beating out No. 2 HBO by more than four...
Facebook’s Instagram Offers Cash to Lure TikTok Creators
Wall Street Journal: Instagram is offering financial incentives to TikTok users with millions of followers to persuade them to use a new competing service, an escalation in a high-stakes showdown between the two social-media giants. Facebook is planning to unveil...
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube Pulling Misleading Covid Video
MarketWatch: Social-media sites have come out swinging against a video pushing misleading information about hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment — which led to Twitter's partially suspending Donald Trump Jr.'s account. The conservative media outlet Breitbart...
Tribune Publishing Adopts Poison Pill to Fend Off Takeover
Chicago Tribune: Tribune Publishing's board has adopted a so-called "poison pill" plan to thwart any potential hostile takeover of the company. The move follows the addition last month of Alden Global Capital co-founder Randall Smith to the newspaper company's...
News Corp to Pay Damages Over Paywalled News Preview
Press Gazette: The Times of London is being forced to pay damages after the headline and preview of an article seen by non-subscribers outside the newspaper's digital paywall made a "libelous imputation" about the former chief executive of an Islamic...
Hearst Braces for Results of Magazine Staffer Union Push
New York Post: Hearst magazine editorial workers will find out Wednesday if their months-long drive to be represented by the Writers Guild of America East has been successful. Company executives are said to be bracing for a major loss in Wednesday's...
Meredith Wins $12 Million Tax Break as Mag Manufacturer
Des Moines Register: Meredith doesn't just publish magazines. It manufactures them. That is the conclusion of a three-year legal battle that ended when attorneys for the US Department of Justice dropped an appeal against the Des Moines-based magazine...
Access Intelligence to Cut, Furlough Trade Media Staffers
@kerrymflynn: Access Intelligence, which owns B2B media brands including PRNews and AdExchanger, has announced a mix of layoffs and furloughs. Some 35 staffers were affected (about 16 percent of staff). Also, the magazine-industry trade publication Folio will be...
G/O Media Expats to Launch New Competitor to Deadspin
New York Times: The G/O Media journalists who took part in a staff rebellion at Deadspin last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture. Defector will offer subscriptions at $8 a month, with an annual...
Politico Deletes Report of Biden Naming Harris as VP Pick
Daily Caller: Politico published and quickly deleted a report saying Joe Biden had picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. The report, which featured a quote from Biden saying Harris was "a worthy opponent and a worthy running mate," has now been scrubbed from the...
Apple to Give Workers Paid Time Off to Vote in US Election
Bloomberg: Apple has told US employees they can take as many as four hours off with pay on Election Day to vote or volunteer at a polling place. The policy applies to retail employees and hourly workers and is similar to moves made by other...
Google to Extend Work-at-Home Order Until Summer 2021
Wall Street Journal: Google will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major US corporation to formalize such an extended timetable in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The move affects nearly 200,000...
AT&T’s Warner Bros to Stagger Rollout of Top Film ‘Tenet’
CNBC: "Tenet," which has been delayed a number of times due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, will debut on Aug. 26 internationally before opening in select cities in the US over the Labor Day weekend. This is an unusual move for such a high-profile...
Netflix Age Means Traditional TV Viewers Likely to Vanish
MediaPost: Though traditional linear TV continues to fall, one analyst believes things could get much worse. "We believe viewership, TV advertising and pay TV subscribers will not recover to their pre-crisis levels," says Bernstein Research's Todd Juenger. "Decline...
Publicis Media: Covid Crisis is Accelerating Shift to Digital
Which-50: Digital now accounts for more than half the world's advertising for the first time, according to new figures from Zenith, a subsidiary of the global giant Publicis Media, which also forecasts that ad spend will drop 9.1 percent this...