Vice Media Brings Back ‘Vice News’ Show in Quiet Rebrand
Adweek: "Vice News Tonight," the nightly news program from Vice Media, will return to television on March 4 at 8 p.m. as an hour-long live news series, but the show won’t air on Viceland. Instead, it will be broadcast on Vice TV, the newly rebranded version of the...
Black News Channel to Launch After Decade in Development
Fox Business: The nation's first news channel that focuses on the black community is scheduled to launch Monday. Black News Channel will offer original programming "created by people of color for people of color." BNC is spearheaded by J.C. Watts, a former Republican...
Hearst’s TV Station in New Hampshire Rakes In Political Ads
Los Angeles Times: Manchester, N.H.-based WMUR is the only commercial TV station in New Hampshire. Presidential aspirants descending on the state in the early pivotal contest fill hours of time on its local newscasts and public affairs programs — and spend millions...
Conde Nast Offers Live Stream of Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party
Vanity Fair: Couldn't make it to Beverly Hills on Sunday night? Readers were invited to attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party from the comfort of their own homes. Immediately after the awards show wrapped up, hosts welcomed viewers to the party's official...
News Corp Trounces New York Times in Digital Subscribers
Fox Business: Bucking the trend of the larger newspaper industry, News Corp is trouncing rivals including the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal topped 2 million digital subscriptions for the first time, while its sister news service, Dow Jones set a new record...
New York Times Sees Podcasting as Pipeline to Millennials
Inside Radio: For a newspaper that was founded in 1851, it’s not surprising that the New York Times thinks long-term. It's one of the reasons the company is embracing podcasting, according to CEO Mark Thompson. "The Daily" podcast has given the paper a pipeline to...
Tribune Taps Daily News Editor to Run Another Newspaper
New York Post: The editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News has been given his old job back — and he didn't even ask for it. Robert York, who joined the Big Apple tabloid from The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in July 2018, will oversee his old paper in...
Hearst Newspapers Invests in Marketing Agency in Buffalo
Buffalo Business First: One of the region's largest marketing firms has received an undisclosed cash injection from Hearst Newspapers to support its growth. The Martin Group now has a major strategic investor to fuel plans to offer marking solutions across more...
Group Nine Media Hopes to Take Ad Dollars Away from TV
AdExchanger: Fresh off the acquisition of PopSugar last October, Group Nine Media vowed to turn a profit in 2020 – putting revenue chief Geoff Schiller, a PopSugar transplant, in charge of finding the advertising dollars that will bring the media organization into...
The Information Tech-News Site Finds Payday from Paywall
New York Times: The Information achieved profitability in 2016, said founder Jessica Lessin, three years after she left the Wall Street Journal to start it. She added that she expected $20 million in sales by the end of 2020, and for her staff of two dozen reporters...
AT&T’s Warner Bros is Favored to Beat Netflix at the Oscars
Reuters: Netflix will storm into Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony boasting more nominations than any other movie distributor. However, the experts surveyed by awards website Gold Derby favored a best-picture win for Warner Bros.' "1917," giving it 11-2 odds, while...
ViacomCBS at Work to Develop Another Streaming Service
CNBC: Newly combined ViacomCBS is working on combining media assets for a new streaming service. The media giant is considering creating a service with advertisements that will combine CBS All Access with Viacom assets including Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central...
AT&T Wants a ‘Friends’ Reunion for WarnerMedia Streamer
MarketWatch: WarnerMedia's HBO Max is finalizing agreements with the cast of "Friends" for a reunion special that will likely be used to launch the streaming service this spring. Under the terms being discussed, each of the six "Friends" stars would receive between...
Comcast, Fox, Disney Back Off from Digital Media Startups
Recode: Two big, splashy digital media acquisitions in the last week tell us something about the future of media: The old predictions that the Big TV guys were eventually going to own all the upstarts were wrong. A few years ago, investors were excited to throw money...
ViacomCBS to Mull Options for CNET After Buyer Interest
Bloomberg: ViacomCBS is weighing options for CNET after receiving takeover interest in the product review website. A number of potential suitors contacted ViacomCBS about the unit after CEO Bob Bakish said he’s looking to offload non-core assets following the merger...
Disney CEO Apologizes After Fine for School’s ‘Lion King’
Fox Business: Disney CEO Bob Iger apologized after the company fined an elementary school in California for screening "The Lion King" remake in November. Emerson Elementary screened the remake during a parent-teacher association event, designed to fund supplies and...
Fox Corp CEO Biography Due by Former Murdoch Journo
Books + Publishing: Black Inc. has acquired worldwide rights to a new unauthorized biography of Lachlan Murdoch by author and journalist Paddy Manning. The publisher said the book will investigate the Fox Corp. CEO — the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch — and where he...
Warner Music Files for IPO in Signal of Industry Comeback
Los Angeles Times: When billionaire Len Blavatnik bought Warner Music Group for $3.3 billion in 2011, the major labels were still reeling from the digital revolution. Since then, the recorded music industry has gained significant ground thanks to the rise of...
Verizon-Hearst Finds a Franchise in Complex’s ‘Hot Ones’
National Post: Since its premiere on YouTube in 2015, "Hot Ones" has ably demonstrated the curious appeal of the chicken-and-luminary format — and as it enters its 11th season in February, after 174 episodes, it continues to demonstrate that the appeal is strangely...
Twitter Nabs $1 Billion in Quarterly Revenue for First Time
Reuters: Twitter pulled in $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday, beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more user-friendly brought in more people. Twitter recorded most of its revenue growth in the United States, a major market...
Reddit Offers Tool to Help TV Broadcasters Use Its Content
The Drum: Reddit is becoming more TV-friendly. A new tool has made it easier for broadcasters to share and credit content from its communities. Reddit has partnered with interactive storytelling firm Tagboard to integrate the blogging community's content with live...
Fox News Memo Accuses Own Pundits of ‘Disinformation’
Daily Beast: Fox News's own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network's top commentators' claims about Ukraine. An internal Fox News research briefing book openly questions Fox News contributor John Solomon's...
New York Times Seeks Subscribers in TV Ad at the Oscars
Nieman Lab: On Sunday, during the Academy Awards on ABC, the New York Times will kick off a national ad campaign with a commercial highlighting The 1619 Project, its stories marking the 400th anniversary of the first documented enslaved Africans to reach the British...
Tribune’s New CEO Swiftly Cuts Senior Execs in Bloodbath
New York Post: New Tribune boss Terry Jimenez has executed a series of cuts that wiped out at least a half-dozen execs with the rank of VP or higher. The cuts, which followed an all-hands meeting in Chicago, are believed to be the result of pressure from Alden Global...
Thomson Reuters Expats Bashed for Fake News Websites
BuzzFeed News: A network of roughly 100 sites has been plagiarizing stories from major news organizations, masquerading as local news and financial outlets, and manipulating Google News and search results to earn money through ads and email...
Hearst Execs Use Offices Closer to Staff Amid Union Push
New York Post: A couple of Hearst Magazines bigwigs are spending more time on a floor near their staff, which has tongues wagging following a unionization push that caught the publishing empire’s C-Suite by complete...
Meredith Claims ‘Strongest Position’ After Time Inc Merger
Folio: CEO Tom Harty opened Meredith's quarterly earnings call Thursday morning by declaring the integration of the now two-year-old Time Inc. acquisition "largely complete," leaving the company in "the strongest competitive position in its...
Vox Media Shines as Finalist in National Magazine Awards
Ad Age: A magazine published by a newspaper has garnered the most finalist nods in the 2020 National Magazine Awards. The New York Times Magazine leads with 10 nominations. Coming close, New York Magazine (acquired by Vox Media in September) snagged...
G/O Media: No Plans to Sell Off Any More of Our Websites
Adweek: Following the sale of the satire website ClickHole, a spokesman for G/O Media said there are no additional plans to sell off any other of its sites. But new media partners have been formed in New York Media and Vox Media, Vice Media and Refinery29, and...
BuzzFeed News Plots Membership Growth, But No Paywall
CNN: BuzzFeed executive editor Samantha Henig said she wants to grow the membership program, which offers exclusive emails for $5 per month and additional perks for $100 per year. But her plans do not involve a...