SiriusXM Extends Contract Deal with Howard Stern
Associated Press: Howard Stern has reached a five-year deal with SiriusXM to continue making his show for the satellite radio company through the end of 2025. Terms were not disclosed. Forbes has reported that Stern was already making $90 million a...
McClatchy Tries Ad-Free News in Tie-Up with Scroll
Nieman Lab: A little less than a year after launch, Scroll is partnering with McClatchy to experiment with bundling subscriptions to its ad-free network. Eight McClatchy publications will offer an ad-free version of their site to Scroll...
Hearst Founder’s Story Resurfaces in Netflix Movie
Screen Rant: How did William Randolph Hearst, portrayed by Charles Dance in the new Netflix film "Mank," react to his depiction in "Citizen Kane"? Orson Welles's 1941 classic isn't an official biopic of the American businessman's...
Conde Nast Seeks Diversity at Interior Design Title
MediaPost: Architectural Digest has unveiled its annual AD100 list, highlighting the top 100 design and architecture firms in the world. This year's list features more women, more people of color and more firms from different geographical locations than past lists,...
Mondadori Taps WSJ Alum for Editor of US Grazia
Daily Front Row: WSJ. Magazine vet David Thielebeule has been appointed editor in chief and chief creative officer of the US edition of Grazia, overseeing content strategy and development across the brand. Mondadori Group, the largest publishing house in Italy, made...
Abrams Media Preps Website for Whiskey Drinkers
Variety: Dan Abrams is eager to turn a burgeoning interest in bourbon and whiskey into a new line of business. The entrepreneur and legal journalist's Abrams Media has acquired the spirits review site t8ke.review and will use it to launch a new online resource called...
Axios Plans Launch of Local Edition in Des Moines
Adweek: Axios is in the process of setting up local news bureaus in Denver, Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Tampa. Each newsroom will start with two local reporters. Ultimately, these local bureaus will serve as regional versions of Axios's brand of short, to-the-point...
Adweek Taps Chief Content Officer, Editor in Chief
Adweek: Adweek CEO Jeff Litvack has announced a shift in editorial leadership. Lisa Granatstein has been promoted to chief content officer, responsible for Adweek content across the business. Stephanie Paterik has been promoted to editor in chief, tasked with leading...
Google Plots Cutting Off Australia Over News Pay
Australian Financial Review: Google engineers have been working on a secret project to exclude Australians from updates to its search function if the company does not agree with proposed laws to regulate how it deals with news...
Facebook CEO Lets Loose Surfboarding in Hawaii
New York Post: Pandemic got you down? Don't worry, Mark Zuckerberg's still out there surfing — er, Hydrofoiling. The Facebook founder, whose personal net worth increased by 46% during the coronavirus pandemic, hit the waves in Hawaii over the...
Apple Founder’s Daughter Makes Debut as Model
Vanity Fair: Steve Jobs's youngest daughter Eve is the latest celebrity offspring to try her hand at a modeling career, making her debut in the new holiday advertising campaign for Glossier. The 22-year-old stars in the self-photographed imagery for the beauty...
Amazon in TV Production Deal with Margot Robbie
Variety: LuckyChap Entertainment has signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon. Under the deal, LuckyChap's Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara will work with Amazon Studios to create television projects that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime...
AT&T’s Streaming Release Plan Angers Film Stars
New York Times: WarnerMedia has called its hybrid movie distribution plan a one-year-only strategy. But most people in Hollywood believe it will prove permanent. Hollywood Reporter: "Their decision makes no economic sense," said filmmaker Christopher...
Comcast Promotes Exec to New Leader of MSNBC
NBC News: Rashida Jones will become president of MSNBC, and the current president, Phil Griffin, will step down after 25 years at the cable news channel. Jones is a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, where she leads breaking news and major events...
Fox Corp Taps Managing Editor for News Channel
Deadline: Tom Lowell has been tapped as executive vice president and managing editor of news at Fox News, where he will oversee all daytime news editorial and news resources. Lowell joined the network in 2003 and has a variety of production...
Vivendi’s Universal Music Buys Bob Dylan Catalog
Associated Press: Bob Dylan has sold publishing rights to his catalog of more than 600 songs, one of the greatest treasures in popular music, to Universal Music Publishing Group. Industry experts have suggested the sale is in the range of $300 million to a...
iHeartMedia Signs Deal with Charlamagne tha God
New York Post: Charlamagne tha God has signed a new, lucrative five-year deal to remain with iHeartRadio. This means that Charlamagne will stay on as host of the nationally syndicated "The Breakfast Club" — plus iHeartRadio is giving him an expanded...
Roundup: Media, Ad Experts Give Outlook for 2021
Forbes: "The old rules no longer apply: Consumer expectations are driving the industry towards new future-proofing opportunities and structures. In order for brands to succeed in a platform world, they must be digitally-resilient and have the infrastructure to...
Publicis Sees a Faster-Than-Expected Ad Recovery
World Screen: Zenith has revised its advertising forecast for this year, projecting a 7.5 percent decline, an improvement on the company's previous warning of a 9.1 percent drop in 2020. Global adspend will reach about $587 billion this year, Zenith...
Liberty’s Live Nation Says Live Events Will Return
CNBC: Joe Berchtold, president of Live Nation, said there has been strong growth of events in Asia and almost full capacity in New Zealand. He expects US shows to be back by summer of 2021. "It continues to be our expectation that by next summer we're...
Hearst-Disney Plans Holiday ‘Mini-Movie’ with KFC
MarketWatch: KFC is spicing up the holidays with a new "mini-movie," a 15-minute film / commercial that will air on the Lifetime network Dec. 13, called "A Recipe for Seduction." The movie is the latest holiday marketing stunt from the chicken...
McClatchy Names Editor to Run Florida Newsrooms
Miami Herald: McClatchy has named a new executive editor to lead its newsrooms in Florida — a 30-year veteran of the news business, with expertise in metro reporting and a specialization in digital news. Monica R. Richardson will join the Miami Herald Jan....
Meredith Plans Redesign of Real Simple in February
Mr Magazine: Real Simple magazine launched in March 2000 and quickly became one of the industry's biggest success stories. Dedicated to making lives easier for women everywhere, the brand has achieved its mission even during a...
Penske’s Rolling Stone Offers Topless Miley Cyrus
New York Post: Miley Cyrus can't be tamed. The singer, 28, bares her breasts in a new Rolling Stone photoshoot. While she shared the full shot on Twitter, her pic on Instagram was conveniently "censored" with the Rolling Stone logo over her...
Maven’s Sports Illustrated Honors Activist Athletes
Yahoo Sports: Sports Illustrated announced its annual Sportsperson of the Year award and for only the fifth time since it began in 1954 the honor went to a group of athletes.The magazine awarded the 2020 title to "The Activist...
Adweek Adds Facebook Alum to Board of Directors
Adweek: Antonio Lucio, who left his position as Facebook CMO in September, has joined the board of directors of Adweek. Before Facebook, Lucio served in top marketing positions at HP, Visa, PepsiCo and Kraft. He began his career at Procter &...
Ad Age Veteran Buys, Revamps Brooklyn Magazine
Brooklyn: Former Ad Age top editor Brian Braiker has teamed up with digital media executive Michael Bassik to acquire Brooklyn Magazine. The glossy quarterly will be making its return as a digital-first daily newsletter, website and...
Hollywood Furious Over AT&T’s Shift to Streaming
Business Insider: Several Hollywood and exhibition executives said they were furious about WarnerMedia's decision to release next year's film slate to streaming at the same time as they debut in theaters. "They have to be very careful or they'll end up in...
AT&T Dismantles Old Time Warner to Battle Netflix
CNBC: John Stankey's vision has irritated some recently departed veteran WarnerMedia executives, who question the AT&T CEO's knowledge of media. The execution of his mission, overseen by WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, has so far been marred by strategic confusion...
Disney Sees Future in Streaming, Not Traditional TV
Financial Times: As Disney re-engineers itself around video streaming it must also manage the decline of its ageing TV channels. Bob Iger, executive chairman and former CEO, recently told friends that once-mighty channels such as Disney-owned ABC were "over," and that...