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...
Netflix in Legal Spat for Hiring Exec from Activision
Los Angeles Times: Netflix continues to face legal challenges as it lures high-level executives from rival entertainment companies. On Friday, Activision Blizzard sued Netflix over its recruitment of CFO Spencer Neumann. "Netflix's unlawful conduct is not...
ViacomCBS is Optimistic a Year After Mega Merger
Hollywood Reporter: Wall Street observers see ViacomCBS management as having delivered on key promises this year."The company has done reasonably well, and CEO Bob Bakish is perceived as being effective in turning operations...
Fox Corp Boosts Opinion at News Channel’s Website
Daily Beast: Sean Hannity's influence has spread to Fox News Channel's once-independent digital news operation, staffers say, and it's largely thanks to a little-known former "Hannity" producer named Porter Berry. Berry has been the subject of a number of HR...
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Mulls Video Streaming for CNN
The Information: WarnerMedia is discussing launching two new streaming services. One would be a subscription offering based on content from CNN and could launch next year. Another would be a free service carrying programming from TBS and...
Disney, ViacomCBS TV Join News App from Amazon
Deadline: Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 US cities will be added to Amazon's news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021. The initial dozen stations include New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and...
IAC in Flap Over ‘Deceptive’ Marketing with Google
Wall Street Journal: Google is deciding whether to impose severe penalties on IAC/InterActive Corp. over what the search giant concluded were deceptive marketing practices. Google determined that IAC misled users about its browser...
OnlyFans Emerges as Billion-Dollar Media Company
Bloomberg: OnlyFans has grown into one of the biggest media businesses hiding in plain sight. The company has 85 million users, upward of 1 million creators, and will generate more than $2 billion in sales this year, of which it keeps about 20%. That puts the site on...
New York Times Podcast Becomes ‘New Front Page’
CNN: "The Daily" has more daily listeners than subscribers to the New York Times's weekday print product. Its audience also surpasses many news shows on TV. The Times has built a "premium product and assembled it as the new front...
Tribune to Shutter Offices of Oldest US Newspaper
Associated Press: The Hartford Courant plans to close the offices it has been operating out of since the mid-1940s by the end of the year. Though the newspaper will continue to be published, its parent company said it will consider whether it’s necessary to open a new...
Reuters Report Finds Journalists Suffering Burnout
Digiday: Many journalists covering the coronavirus crisis, or working from home in lockdown, have been suffering from varying levels of burnout, anxiety, depression, insomnia and loneliness. "Journalists felt they were trapped in a pandemic...
Conde Nast Goes ‘Badass’ with Merchandise by GQ
GQ: A brand new batch of merch has just landed in the GQ Shop. "The only rule for the stuff we're making is: It has to be awesome," said GQ editor in chief Will Welch. "We're not going to make something we don't want to wear...
Vox, BuzzFeed Enjoy Boost in Holiday E-Commerce
Digiday: BuzzFeed's gift guide revenue soared more than 575%, thanks to plans to go bigger and start earlier — it produced over 200% more gift guide content. Vox Media’s The Strategist saw its Cyber 5 revenues leap 120% year over year, thanks not only to holiday...
BuzzFeed Under Pressure by ICE to Reveal Sources
BuzzFeed News: US imigration investigators issued a subpoena demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment. "This subpoena is an outrageous...
Air Mail Founder Plans US Return with Trump Gone
New York Post: Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, said he's returning to the United States now that his longtime nemesis Donald Trump is leaving the White House. "I'm coming back in the middle of this month to America now that he is safely on his way...
Media Reporters Respond to Charge of ‘Too White’
Poynter: Most US media reporters, critics and editors are white. "It's definitely something that's legitimate and obvious to people who pay attention to these kinds of things. Media reporters are oftentimes hired by people whose views that they...
Alphabet, Facebook Eclipse Old Media in News Biz
Press Gazette: Ten years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp was the biggest news media company in the English-speaking world. Today, the biggest three news and information companies in the world are Google-owner Alphabet, Facebook and...
Facebook Girds for Onslaught of Antitrust Lawsuits
Reuters: A group of US states is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit against the social media giant next week. More than 40 states plan to sign on to the lawsuit, one source said, without naming...
Apple to Make Mobile Movie Screens Even Smaller
CNBC: Apple's latest iPhone update includes a new picture-in-picture option that lets you continue watching a movie, TV show or FaceTime video chat while you're doing other stuff on your iPhone. The video just plays in a small window instead of full...
AT&T to Stream All Warner Films in Seismic Shift
CNBC: WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar doesn't think he just destroyed the movie theater industry with the decision to release the company's entire 2021 slate of films directly on HBO Max at the same time they hit theaters. "Everyone should take a...