Conde Nast’s Employees at Ars Technica Work from Home
Ars Technica: Ars Technica, the Conde Nast-owned website covering tech news, operates in remote offices. Writers don’t have the benefit of seeing each other as they work, so having routines and procedures is important to keep the workday on...
Flipboard Expands News Aggregation App Into Local News
TechCrunch: Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including major metros like New York, Los Angeles, and...
Scroll Makes Hundreds of Websites Ad-Free for $5 a Month
The Verge: A new subscription service called Scroll is offering ad-free access to hundreds of websites — not by blocking the ads, but by working with an expanding group of publishers to take the ads down in exchange for a slice of the subscription...
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Netflix, Fox, MSNBC Among Top ‘Loyalty’ Brands in Media
MediaPost: Media brands including Amazon, Netflix, MSNBC, Fox, Google, and an ascendant WhatsApp, are dominant among the top 20 loyalty brands, according to findings from the just-released 2020 edition of Brand Key's annual Customer Loyalty Engagement...
Disney Faces Potential Business Impact from Coronavirus
Deadline: The Coronavirus hit markets hard Monday with gambling, travel and selected tech stocks taking the hardest punches but other pockets feeling the jitters too — like Disney. The entertainment giant closed Shanghai Disneyland indefinitely last...
ViacomCBS Chief Invests in Podcasting Startup ‘Meet Cute’
Variety: Meet Cute, a New York-based podcast company that focuses on romantic comedies, has secured more than $3 million in funding from a group of investors, including Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital and venture capital firm Union Square...
CBS Credits Trio of Events with Streaming Signup Record
TechCrunch: CBS’s streaming service, CBS All Access, credits a trio of high-profile events — including the premiere of its new Star Trek series, “Star Trek: Picard” — with helping it to achieve a new record for subscriber sign-ups in a given...
Fox, CBS Begin Borrowing Bingeing Concepts from Netflix
Multichannel News: As streaming becomes more and more the viewing norm, the content of the Netflixes, Amazons and Hulus of the world, bold and binge-friendly, is increasingly affecting the programming viewers see on cable and...
Netflix Courts First-Time Filmmakers for Edge in Streaming
Los Angeles Times: Netflix is aggressively courting not only Academy Award-winning filmmakers such as “The Irishman” director Martin Scorsese, but also artists who haven’t yet broken out. The idea is to forge relationships with up-and-coming directors before they...
Facebook Teases First Super Bowl Ad After Stallone Leak
Ad Age: Facebook got its first taste of the high-wire act that is Super Bowl advertising when the star of its commercial, Sylvester Stallone, leaked information about the secret spot. Stallone was sharing to Instagram from behind the scenes at the commercial shoot in...
Twitter NFL Team Accounts Hacked Ahead of Super Bowl
Bloomberg: The official Twitter accounts for more than a dozen National Football League teams have been hacked, less than a week before the Super Bowl. Official verified Twitter accounts for a number of teams no longer have profile photos on the social media...
Google, Conde Nast Release Study on Programmatic Ads
Adweek: Publishers can find value in programmatic advertising, even when the inventory is next to content that normally attracts luxury dollars, Google and Condé Nast attest in a new joint case study, disclosing details about their programmatic guaranteed...
News Corp Plans to Battle BBC with Debut of Times Radio
City A.M.: Rupert Murdoch is gearing up for an attack on the BBC with the launch of a new radio station to rival the embattled Radio 4. The media baron’s News UK is set to unveil details this week of Times Radio, which will be funded by the newspaper...
iHeartMedia CEO Gets Senator’s Questions About Layoffs
Business Journal: Following mass layoffs by iHeartMedia last week, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is seeking answers from the radio chain’s CEO Bob Pittman. Brown raised concerns about the company paying millions in bonus pay to the exec prior to the company’s 2018...
Sinclair to Pay $60 Million Over Tribune Spat with Nexstar
Hollywood Reporter: Sinclair Broadcast Group has settled the lawsuit stemming from its failed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media. The merger was scuttled after the FCC referred it to an administrative law judge, making it...
NPR Journo Gets Booted from Pompeo Trip by State Dept
The Hill: The U.S. State Department has removed an NPR reporter from a group of journalists traveling this week to Europe and Central Asia with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, days after Pompeo publicly feuded with the news outlet following a tense...
Conde Nast Veteran Opens Up About Addiction in Memoir
WWD: Dan Peres's new HarperCollins memoir “As Needed For Pain” shines a light on the first half of his 15-year-long reign as editor in chief of Details magazine, during which he was at one point swallowing up to 60 Vicodin pills a day and concealing it from...
Playboy Turns Focus from Print to Events, Brand Licensing
FIPP: Playboy still does content, says top exec David Israel. "We have a website, we still have the magazine. And we use it really to keep promoting the kind of pleasure-seeking, egalitarian sort of lifestyle. And really, that editorial content is essentially...
Vox Media Expects $20 Million in Revenue from Podcasting
Digiday: Vox Media Podcast Network now generates over $10 million a year in revenue from a roster of more than 200 shows across the company's 14 brands. The network is expected to double revenue in 2020, according to Vox Media president Marty...
Texas Tribune Expats Prep News Targeting Women, Politics
Nieman Lab: Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora — formerly the editor-in-chief and chief audience officer of the Texas Tribune — on Monday announced the soft launch of and more details about The 19th, their new national news...
Washington Post Suspends Journo for Kobe Bryant Tweet
Associated Press: The Washington Post has placed a political reporter on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about rape allegations against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who was killed Sunday. Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the...
Gannett’s ‘Ghost Papers’ Stir Worries of Local News Void
New Yorker: Under Gannett’s watch, many small-town newspapers have become "ghost papers," emaciated versions of their former selves, hobbled by cost-cutting, barely able to cover their established beats. "The South tends to have lost more...
Craigslist Founder Makes Donation to ProPublica Project
ProPublica: ProPublica has announced $1 million in support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies for its Electionland collaboration and related national and local reporting on voting issues around the 2020 U.S....
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Apple, Amazon Among New ‘Big Six’ Global Media Giants
CNBC: Apple, Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, Disney and Netflix may be a new “Big Six” among global media companies. MGM has held early talks with Apple, Netflix and other larger media entities about an acquisition as the streaming giants consider strengthening their...
Amazon CEO Hosts Rich, Powerful at New Mansion in DC
Daily Mail: Jeff Bezos threw a lavish party at his newly completed Washington, DC mansion on Saturday attended by the likes of Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Bill Gates. The Amazon CEO purchased the $23 million mansion in 2016 and it underwent three years of...
ViacomCBS Plans ‘Grueling’ Post-Merger Layoffs in April
Fox Business: ViacomCBS plans to kick off a significant round of layoffs this April, according to Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business. “This is not good news.” CEO Bob Bakish has said that he is “going to try to squeeze $500 million in cost savings out of this...
CBS Chief Likely to Exit Company Sooner Than Expected
The Information: CBS chairman and CEO Joseph Ianniello is expected to leave the company this spring, say two people familiar with the situation. While his departure was long anticipated following CBS’s merger with Viacom, the timing wasn’t previously...
Comcast: We’ll Make More Streaming Money Than Anyone
Multichannel News: Comcast expects to be able to make more money from streaming than any other company in the world, according to Steve Burke, chairman of Comcast's NBCUniversal unit. "We could make more money in streaming than anyone else, by a...