Vox Media to See Top Columnist Leave New York Magazine
New York Post: Andrew Sullivan, the prominent conservative commentator, announced Tuesday that he will move on from New York magazine. "The reasons for the split are pretty self-evident and I’ll be discussing the broader questions involved in my last column this...
McClatchy Journalists Wary of New Enquirer-Owning Buyer
Washington Post: America's newest newspaper baron is a hedge fund whose co-founder and CEO has ties to President Trump's most tabloid-worthy stories and whose publishing assets include the National Enquirer. "We don't know what they're up to, and that's an ominous...
News Corp to Unveil 50 Digital-Only Titles Across Australia
Mumbrella: News Corp. has announced a plan to launch more than 50 new digital titles primarily targeting regional areas across Australia. The news comes a few months after ending the print life of more than 100 regional and community titles and 500 to 1,000 job...
Conde Nast Admits to ‘Black Women Problem’ at Vanity Fair
WWD: Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones is calling out the glossy magazine's long lack of diversity on its covers: "For most of the magazine's history, a Black artist, athlete or politician appearing on a regular monthly issue of Vanity Fair was a rare...
Bezos’s Washington Post Makes Articles Available in Audio
MediaPost: Audio versions of all Washington Post articles are now available on the Post app for Android and iOS. Using text-to-speech capabilities built into the Android and iOS operating systems, every Post native article now has an audio...
Nikkei’s Financial Times Ex-Editor to Unveil ‘Private Diaries’
TalkingBizNews: WH Allen has bought the rights to publish the memoirs of former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, which offers portraits of global figures. "The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times" will debut Nov....
Craigslist ‘Confessional’ Reveals Anonymous User Secrets
New York Post: A few years ago, Helena Dea Bala logged on to Craigslist and placed a personal ad: "Tell me about yourself." The writer began writing down strangers' intimate stories. The result is the new book "Craigslist...
Apple Pessimistic on Return to US Offices, Stores in 2020
Bloomberg: Apple is readjusting operations as Covid-19 cases continue to spike in the US and other parts of the world. The tech giant is pushing retail staff to work remotely and told staff in a memo that a full return to US offices won't occur before the end of the...
Disney Optimism Grows on Potential of Parks, Streaming
CNBC: Goldman Sachs is getting behind media giant Disney, betting its streaming service numbers will top expectations and its theme parks will return to normal following the pandemic. The Wall Street firm initiated coverage of Disney with a buy...
Comcast Plans NBC ‘Today All Day’ Streaming at Peacock
NBC News: NBC's "Today" show, the long-running morning news and lifestyle franchise, is going all day and all night, as part of a new plan to expand the show's content into a 24-hour streaming service. "Today All Day" is the latest flourish for the broadcast TV show...
Discovery CEO Spat Led to Departure of Streaming Head
The Information: Discovery said abruptly in mid-June that Peter Faricy would leave, even though his big project — a streaming service internally called Discovery Plus — hasn't yet launched. His exit comes after tensions between him and CEO David...
Fox Corp CEO Buys Remote Land with Ancient Art in Utah
Times-Independent: At the end of last year, a limited liability corporation belonging to the family trust of Lachlan Murdoch acquired six parcels of land along Mill Creek in Utah. The parcels he acquired total 156 acres. The area is thick with cultural...
Google Ex-CEO Hosts Secretive Ideas Summit in Montana
Recode: Each year, around this time in July, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt invites a few dozen celebrities, economists and politicians to Big Sky country — and few people know about it. This particular conclave has remained highly secretive by...
Disney Heiress Calls for ‘Rich Tax’ to Pay for Covid Fallout
Fast Company: More than 80 of the world's richest people have called on world governments to initiate immediate, substantial and permanent taxes on the rich in order the help fund the economic recovery that’s needed as a result of the Covid-19...
ViacomCBS Announces Diversity Goals for Writers at CBS
The Undefeated: CBS will commit at least 25% of its script development budget to creators and producers who are Black, Indigenous and people of color, starting with the 2021-22 development season, the network...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia to Expand Racism Coverage at CNN
TheHill: CNN plans to launch an expanded team to "shed a light on the growing movement against institutional racism." The race team will be headed by former Associated Press Chicago deputy news director Delano Massey, who was recently hired by...
Fox Corp News Star Takes Vacation Following Writer Flap
Associated Press: Tucker Carlson says that his former writer who posted racist comments online was wrong but criticized "ghouls now beating their chests in triumph" after his staffer's resignation. Carlson plans to take the rest of the week off to go trout...
Disney’s ESPN Staffers Talk of Racism Behind the Camera
New York Times: ESPN employees have criticized the career pipeline and diversity of top leadership, eliciting a promise from executives to do better. ESPN has apologized twice in recent years for on-air segments that were criticized as...
Playboy Founder’s Son Preps Move Into California Politics
TheWrap: Cooper Hefner, the son of the late Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, is launching an exploratory campaign in the California State Senate race. The 28-year-old wrote on Instagram that “it is time for more young leaders to focus on the...
SiriusXM Pushes Into Podcasts with Acquisition of Stitcher
TechCrunch: SiriusXM has reached a deal to acquire Stitcher from E.W. Scripps for $325 million, a return of more than double Scripps’ investment in podcasting. Stitcher is a podcast pioneer that provides a one-stop platform to create, monetize and distribute...
Hearst Plans Virtual Shopping ‘Hauliday’ for Cosmopolitan
WWD: Cosmopolitan's audience lists shopping as a favorite pastime and has spent a lot of time during quarantine shopping online. Cosmo's audience is also a demo of savvy shoppers largely made up of digitally native Gen Z and...
Maven’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Makes a Splash
E! News: Kate Bock, Jasmine Sanders and Olivia Culpo have landed the cover of 2020's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. The iconic cover with the three models was unveiled Monday. This is the first SI Swimsuit cover for the three, all of whom were photographed in...
News Corp Revives Personal Section of Wall Street Journal
TalkingBizNews: The Wall Street Journal is relaunching Personal Journal, a print section and coverage area to help readers navigate their personal lives in a complex world. Like the previous Personal Journal, the new version will cover subjects "close to readers'...
Associated Press, Washington Post to Join ‘Trusted News’
Press Gazette: Major news publishers and tech giants are preparing to collaborate in the fight against disinformation ahead of the US election. The Trusted News Initiative, launched last year, has recently been focusing on countering false claims about...
G/O Media Brings Back Former Editor to Oversee Gizmodo
TalkingBIzNews: Tech news site Gizmodo has hired John Biggs, who was editor of Gizmodo from 2003 to 2005 and has been editor of Coindesk, to be its editor. Biggs has two decades of experience as a tech editor and journalist across sites such as CrunchGear and...
Media, Tech Giants in Identity Crisis During Plans for M&A
CNBC: Distribution and content companies are redefining themselves because the definition of distribution is changing with broadband-connected television. There are multiple levels in which media and technology companies can play. Choosing a path dictates content...
Facebook Beats Out Disney as Most Valuable Media Brand
AdNews: The world's 25 most valuable media brands could lose up to 10% of brand value, or about $40 billion, from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an analysis by Brand Finance. An increase in demand and subscribers "may not offset, or compensate for, Covid-19's...
Disney Stirs Online Backlash from Florida Park Reopening
MarketWatch: Florida on Sunday broke the national record for the biggest single-day number of positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, following a week in which the Sunshine State saw 514 people die of the disease, or 73 each day,...
Comcast to Shun ‘Casino Feel’ with New Streamer Peacock
Deadline: Matt Strauss, a veteran Comcast exec who took the helm of NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock last fall, knew one thing when he started: He wasn’t creating a copycat offering. "TV tends to be very dynamic. It’s current. It’s social. Many streaming...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Readies ‘Batman’ Series at HBO Max
CNBC: Filmmaker Matt Reeves’s take on the Dark Knight won’t arrive in theaters until 2021, but that’s not stopping HBO Max from committing to giving the film its own expanded universe. The streaming service owned by AT&T announced that it had given a series...