New York Times Veteran Journalist Dies from Coronavirus
The Hill: Alan Finder, a former New York Times reporter, has died due to the novel coronavirus. Finder retired from his full-time position at the Times in 2011 after 28 years of service. One of the many posts he held was assistant editor of the newspaper's foreign...
News Corp Adapts Election Tech Tools for Virus Reporting
Nieman Lab: The Wall Street Journal spent months designing, testing and perfecting a slate of tools and news products around what was sure to be the year's biggest story: the 2020 elections. Then…coronavirus. Fortunately, the new tools have proven...
Bloomberg Media, The Atlantic See Spike in Subscriptions
Digiday: Publishers are seeing a spike in subscriptions over the last four weeks in the U.S. and Europe, fueled by readers’ appetite to stay as informed as possible during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Bloomberg Media has witnessed record subscriber numbers since...
Hearst Quietly Cuts Print Edition of Esquire to Six Per Year
New York Post: Men's magazine Esquire has quietly trimmed its print edition to six per year — down from eight. Last year, the once-mighty monthly had dropped its print frequency from 10 to eight issues. Hearst Magazines head Troy Young said the reduction is not...
Conde Nast’s Wintour to Help Create Fashion Rescue Fund
New York Times: Anna Wintour and Tom Ford are repurposing the money from an existing fashion award to help the industry get through the new pandemic. The Vogue-Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Fund was originally formed in the aftermath of Sept....
The Athletic Suffers Identity Crisis as Sports Get Canceled
Financial Times: The Athletic will be extending a free trial period for new readers as the sports journalism website faces an unprecedented challenge: what to do given that the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of virtually every major sports fixture...
Vox Media Deletes Tweet About Coronavirus from January
The Wrap: Vox Media on Tuesday deleted a tweet from January that assured followers the coronavirus would not be "a deadly pandemic." The deleted tweet, which was referenced in the replies to the announcement of the deletion, included a series of questions readers may...
Air Mail’s Graydon Carter Predicts a New Age of Creativity
Air Mail: "We can expect seismic societal changes when this is all over," writes Graydon Carter, about the pandemic. "But with extended periods of isolation will come a flowering of creativity and invention much as what happened during the decade following the end of...
Analysis: Media Usage Rising from Pandemic — as Ads Fall
Recode: The coronavirus pandemic has made Twitter more valuable than ever to its users. But that spike in interest isn’t doing anything for Twitter’s ad business, which is in free fall — because of the pandemic. You can expect to see that story unfolding throughout...
Poll: Media Rank Lower Than Trump on Handling Outbreak
The Hill: The media gets lower marks on its performance than President Trump regarding its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from Monmouth University. The poll shows 50 percent of Americans approving of President Trump's handling of the...
Disney, AT&T See Major Spikes in New Streaming Signups
Forbes: As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus spreads, they are subscribing to new streaming services, with Disney+ proving to be far and away the most popular choice. Between March 14 and March 16, the number of Disney+ signups...
Comcast, Disney Create Hits from Film Rush to Streaming
Bloomberg: Over the weekend, Universal Pictures' "The Invisible Man" and Disney's "Onward" were the two most popular movies to buy or rent on FandangoNow, an online service. Both were supposed to be exclusively in theaters for the next several...
Fox Corp’s Murdoch Axes Birthday Party Over Virus Fears
New York Times: In early March, as the coronavirus was spreading, the Murdoch family called off a planned 89th birthday party for Rupert Murdoch out of concern for the patriarch's health. There were about 20 people on the guest list. The celebration was to be held at...
ViacomCBS Cancels VidCon Citing Spread of Coronavirus
The Verge: VidCon, an annual gathering of social media influencers and content creators, is canceled this year in the US. The show was scheduled for June 17 through 20 in Anaheim, California. The company said it is looking to make the conference happen sometime in the...
Comcast NBC News Staffer Calls for Shutdown of 30 Rock
Deadline: A column written under anonymity by someone who wished to be identified only as a senior producer of a primetime show on MSNBC believes that NBC News is creating a potentially dangerous environment by keeping open its 30 Rockefeller Center...
Fox Corp’s News Channel Readies Trump Virtual Town Hall
Fox News: Fox News Channel is hosting a two-hour virtual town hall with President Trump and members of the coronavirus task force on Tuesday at 12 p.m. ET. Questions will be answered via text and video questions submitted to Fox News's Twitter, Facebook and Instagram...
Facebook Reemerges as News Powerhouse for Coronavirus
New York Times: As of Thursday, more than half the articles being consumed on Facebook in the United States were related to the coronavirus, according to an internal report. More than 90 percent of the clicks came from “Power News Consumers” and “Power News...
Amazon Lifts Prime Video Paywall on Programming for Kids
Hollywood Reporter: Amazon is making a host of kids' and family programs available for free to all its customers as millions of children are unable to go to school due to coronavirus quarantines. The tech behemoth has lifted the paywall for original and acquired...
FuboTV to Merge with Entertainment Tech Outfit FaceBank
World Screen: FaceBank Group, a celebrity- and sports-focused virtual entertainment company, and the live TV streaming platform FuboTV have entered into a definitive merger agreement. FuboTV will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of FaceBank, and FaceBank will be...
Comcast Wins Supreme Court Support in Racial Bias Case
Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Comcast in a high-stakes civil rights case Monday, ruling that media mogul Byron Allen must show race was the determining reason that the cable company refused to carry his channels in order for his...
Cox Radio Reaches a Settlement in Lawsuit Tied to Gawker
New York Post: Hulk Hogan has finally reached a settlement with Cox Radio in the lawsuit over his leaked sex tape after years of legal proceedings. Hogan, 66, whose real name is Terry Bollea, reached a "confidential" settlement with the defendants. The financial terms...
Hachette’s Killed Woody Allen Memoir Finds New Publisher
Associated Press: Woody Allen's memoir, dropped by its original publisher after widespread criticism, has found a new home. The 400-page book, still called "Apropos of Nothing," was released Monday by Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse...
Gannett Launches Website to Help Small Local Businesses
USA Today: Gannett has launched a nationwide effort to help communities support local small businesses during the coronavirus crisis. The media company announced a new website that will allow users to select local businesses in their community to support by buying...
New York Times Acquires Journalism-to-Audio App Audm
TechCrunch: Audm, a startup that turns longform journalism into audio content, has been acquired by the New York Times. Audm differentiates itself from similar rival services by using professional voice actors to narrate the content, not automated voice...
Hearst to Join Investors in Lifestyle Startup Robin Games
TechCrunch: Robin Games is working to create a new niche in mobile entertainment that the startup is calling "lifestyle gaming." As the name implies, the idea is to create a mobile gaming experience — in this case, fantasy gaming — that is similar to lifestyle...
Conde Nast CEO: Our Content Duty Won’t Be Quarantined
Conde Nast: "Now more than ever, we need the power of perspective and inspiration," writes Roger Lynch, CEO of Conde Nast, in a message to readers. "Our commitment to providing you with world-class content that informs and uplifts will not be...
Meredith’s People Editor Produces Weekly Mag from Home
WWD: Dan Wakeford, editor in chief of People magazine, has been forced to work from home due to the coronavirus, like millions of people across the U.S. Wakeford is having to quickly adapt to producing America's biggest weekly magazine remotely. The first remote issue...
Hearst Announces Interim Co-Captains for Harper’s Bazaar
WWD: Ever since longtime Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Glenda Bailey revealed she would be stepping down at the end of January, its publisher Hearst Magazines has been taking its time to appoint her successor. Now the spread of coronavirus across the U.S. will delay...
Penske’s Rolling Stone Offers Concert Videos on Instagram
Folio: Rolling Stone wants to make sure its readers don't miss out on their spring and summer concert plans. The Penske Media brand launched an IGTV concert series, "In My Room," leveraging its access to musical artists across several...
Benioffs’ Time for Kids to Make Issues Free Amid Outbreak
MediaPost: Time is offering its child-focused spinoff Time for Kids to students, families and teachers at home for free amid the COVID-19 outbreak and school closures. The move marks the first time the edition is available to readers outside classrooms in its 25 years...