Quibi Seeks to Bring Mobile Offerings to Living-Room TVs
Variety: Quibi has been in talks with both Roku and Amazon about building native apps for their connected-TV platforms. In Amazon's case, that would be its family of Fire TV devices. Quibi's negotiations with Amazon have "recently picked back...
Facebook’s Instagram to Overtake Twitter as News Source
BBC News: The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018. The trend is strongest among young people. It said nearly a quarter of UK 18-24-year-olds used Instagram as a source of news about coronavirus....
EBay Former CEO’s Text Triggers Attack on E-Newsletter
Bloomberg: Last year, eBay's then-CEO Devin Wenig fired off texts to a colleague expressing his ire over unflattering coverage by a blogger of the e-commerce site. What followed, prosecutors said, was a cyber-stalking criminal scheme by his...
Google Alerts Two Websites of Violations for Ad Platform
USA Today: Google gave notices to ZeroHedge and The Federalist to remove content from their sites that violated its policy against dangerous and derogatory speech in order to continue generating revenue through Google...
McClatchy Former Newspaper Publisher’s Statue Toppled
News and Observer: The family of Josephus Daniels, a former publisher of the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a known white supremacist, removed a statue of him from the town's Nash Square on Tuesday. "The time is...
Hearst, Conde Nast Audiences Make Quick Pivot to Digital
The Drum: The pandemic has "accelerated existing trends that were already challenging the publishing business model," said an executive at Hearst. "Things we’ve spoken about for a number of years will now happen in a matter of...
Conde Nast Ex-Vogue Intern Claims of White Gay Privilege
South China Morning Post: White privilege can take many different forms, writes Vincenzo La Torre, a former intern at Vogue. "I never realized it while I was at Vogue, but in hindsight I can see that there is such a thing as white gay...
Metrocorp’s Philly Mag Editor Exits After Race Discussion
Philadelphia Inquirer: Philadelphia Magazine editor Tom McGrath will step down at the end of the summer, telling his staff the publication needs to evolve and the company should hire a replacement who isn't "a middle-aged white...
Politico Shifts Free Newsletters to Once-a-Week Schedule
Talking Biz News: Politico will be moving its free newsletters to a once-per-week publishing schedule starting in July. Subscribers will continue to receive the newsletters daily. "Now is the time to take a fresh look at how we can better serve our...
Disney, AT&T Stocks Hit Amid Fears of Covid Resurgence
Variety: US stocks recovered Monday after initially falling as Wall Street reacted to the prospect that a second wave of Covid-19 outbreaks could hinder a global economic recovery. At the start of trading Monday, many media and tech stocks were pulled...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Nears $3 Billion+ Major League Deal
CNBC: Major League Baseball is finalizing a new media rights package with Turner Sports in a deal worth roughly $3.2 billion over seven years. The MLB’s agreement with the WarnerMedia network will commence in 2022 and pay the league $470 million per...
Disney’s ABC Telecast on Hold as Academy Delays Oscars
Associated Press: For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC said that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, eight weeks later than planned because of the...
ViacomCBS to Air BET Awards on CBS for First Time Ever
Associated Press: The 2020 BET Awards will air live on June 28 across ViacomCBS networks, including CBS for the first time. The show, which will be a virtual celebration because of the coronavirus pandemic, will also air on BET and BET...
AT&T Streamer to Restore ‘Gone with the Wind’ with Intro
Fox News: "Gone with the Wind" will be returning to HBO Max with some new material. When the film returns to the streaming service -- the date of which is still unclear -- it will include an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a Turner Classic Movies...
Disney-Owned Theaters to Become Future of Moviegoing?
USA Today: Major US film studios might be able to purchase theater chains in financial distress. Disney, for example, could have a "supercenter" theater featuring characters and merchandise in a theme-park atmosphere. "It'd be much like going to...
Facebook Rejects Proposal to Share Revenue with Media
Tech Xplore: Facebook rejected calls from the Australian government and news companies that it share advertising revenue with the media, suggesting it would rather cut news content from its platform. News is a "very small fraction" of the content in an average user's...
Magna Forecasts $11 Million Ad-Revenue Drop for Media
Adweek: The Covid-19 pandemic will continue to negatively affect the advertising and media industries through the end of this year as consumption habits and marketing budgets change, but the ad market is expected to recover in...
Bloomberg Media, News Corp Staffers Press for Changes
Wall Street Journal: Some reporters felt Bloomberg News was too slow to cover George Floyd's death and the protests. At the Wall Street Journal, more than 150 journalists sent a letter to bosses expressing concerns about diversity, hiring and...
News Corp Promises Diversity, Pay Review at Dow Jones
Talking Biz News: Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out a message on Monday: "Over the past few weeks, hundreds of you have shared your experiences of racial inequality, as well as your views about how we can increase diversity...
Conde Nast Staffers Make Online Claims of Pay Inequity
New York Post: Conde Nast activists have set up a spreadsheet that allows employees to anonymously share their salaries. The Google Doc lists staffers' titles, salaries, gender, race, sexual orientation and the length of their tenure at the...
Gannett Abruptly Shuts Down Two Newspapers in Texas
MediaPost: Gannett has shuttered two local papers — The Edinburg Review and Valley Town Crier — both located in McAllen, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. A note was attached to the front door of the newspapers' shared offices: "Thanks for your...
Lee Newspaper in Tulsa ‘Can’t Welcome’ New Trump Rally
MarketWatch: The Tulsa World newspaper is calling its city the wrong place for President Trump to hold a weekend rally, with the coronavirus pandemic continuing and the city "on edge" in the wake of the killing of George...
Nikkei’s Financial Times Unveils Sports Business Vertical
Talking Biz News: The Financial Times has launched Scoreboard, a weekly briefing on the business of sport. Available to FT subscribers, the briefing covers financial issues affecting the largest global sports clubs, franchises, competitions, owners, investors and...
Hearst Creative Veteran on Way Out Over Racial Remarks
WWD: Stephen Gan, the creative director at Elle magazine, has been accused of making racially insensitive and misogynistic comments in the workplace. Gan has been with Hearst for close to 20 years, including a longtime post at Harper's...
Conde Nast Sees Black Artists Expand ‘Vogue Challenge’
The Cut: There's a new viral challenge on social media, and it's uplifting Black creatives that have been largely neglected by the fashion industry. Called the #VogueChallenge, it originated on TikTok in mid-May before taking on a new...
Bustle Digital Ex-Gawker Editor Raises Funds for Lawsuit
Daily Beast: A former Gawker editor suing The Daily Beast is getting help from a set of right-wing trolls, including a Trumpy conspiracy site, white nationalist sympathizer Michelle Malkin, and a company tied to far-right agitator Charles Johnson....
Reuters Forecasts Digital, Economic Pain in Media Future
Reuters: Economic turmoil is forcing news businesses to accelerate their move to digital, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said. The business of news remains bleak. Media across the world are cutting staff to cope with a dramatic fall in advertising...
Media Chiefs Under Fire for Skipping Town During Crisis
New York Times: Top executives at Discovery, CNN, Hearst and Conde Nast fled New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic, shining a spotlight on class divisions in the media business. "Being a leader means staying with your people and seeing what they...
ViacomCBS Boss’s Son Deported from Israel Over Rules
Associated Press: Israel said it was deporting the son of American media magnate Shari Redstone for violating the country's coronavirus quarantine rules while paying a secret visit to his model girlfriend. Brandon Korff "violated the isolation...
Disney to Help Jump Start Covid-Stricken Movie Business
New York Times: Warner Bros has pushed back the release of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" that was supposed to arrive in theaters on July 17. The move means that Disney's extravagant "Mulan" will now mark the return of megawatt Hollywood...