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iHeartMedia to Acquire Podcast Tech Company Voxnest

Radio World: iHeartMedia has announced plans to acquire Voxnest, a podcast and analytics organization. The acquisition will provide iHeart’s podcast infrastructure with new features including a new podcast analytics platform, enterprise publishing tools, and targeted...

Bloomberg Offers Staffers $75 a Day in Return to Office

Talking Biz News: Bloomberg says it will provide a $75-per-day stipend to its workers as they start returning to the office. The stipend is to help pay for items such as care services, tolls, parking or public transportation. Anything above $75 per day will be...

News Corp’s Dow Jones Adds a Paywall to MarketWatch

MarketWatch: MarketWatch has introduced a paywall "in order to raise the ambitions of our journalism," says editor Jeremy Oshan. "No one wants an extra bill to pay. But as the Roman playwright Plautus said 2,000 years ago, 'You must spend money to make money.'...

Conde Nast’s Black Staffers Call for Wintour to Resign

New York Times: Under Anna Wintour, Vogue welcomed a certain type of employee — someone who is thin and white. In the view of some Black journalists at the company, Wintour should no longer be in charge of Vogue and should give up her post as Conde Nast editorial...

Hearst Faces Charge of Racism at Prestigious Magazine

Daily Beast: "The presence of white privilege and white supremacy delusion are seemingly so insidious and ingrained in Town & Country, one cannot forget its multi-century success is built on the generational wealth of white American families in the landed...

Penske Founder Likely to Seek More Media Acquisitions

Business Insider: Jay Penske has managed to transform PMC into a publishing powerhouse in an age when media companies are flailing and laying off staffers by the dozens to survive the pandemic. Penske will "create the next iteration of what Conde Nast used to be." He...

News Corp Struggles with ‘Aging’ at Wall Street Journal

BuzzFeed News: A brutal internal Wall Street Journal report has revealed how the 130-year-old newspaper is struggling mightily in the current digital and cultural age. New York Times: Journal top editor Matt Murray says: "Our rigorous and trusted journalism speaks for...

Gannett Inks Deals to Sell Newspapers to Local Owners

Media Nation: Gannett has sold the Inquirer and Mirror of Nantucket to a group of local owners. Also, Gannett has sold the Pine Bluff Commercial to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which is itself independently owned. So maybe it is a trend. Or a mini-trend....

News Corp to Reduce Print Frequency of WSJ Magazine

WWD: WSJ. Magazine, the monthly fashion and luxury-focused insert of the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, plans to reduce its print frequency from 12 issues to eight in 2021 with a renewed focus on digital platforms. "There are times of the year when being...

New York Times Mum on Return of US Election Needle

Associated Press: The Needle graphic on the New York Times website measured in real time the probability of victory on election night in 2016. There's no sign yet that the Needle will be making a reappearance on Nov. 3. The Times is said to be looking at a "range of...

New York Observer Veteran Arrested for Cyberstalking

New York Times: Ken Kurson, a close friend of the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, has been arrested in connection with incidents stemming from his divorce. Kurson was charged with cyberstalking three people and harassing two others, including a friend whom he...

Alphabet Faces Deluge of US Election Ads for YouTube

Bloomberg: Less than two weeks before the US election, some political campaigns are dealing with an unexpected obstacle on YouTube, the internet’s largest video site: There isn’t enough space to run their ads. The site has a particular shortage of ad slots in critical...

Google Pledges Massive Hiring Effort in New York City

Crain's New York Business: Google pledged Thursday to hire 10,000 people across its US offices — including New York — by 2025 as part of an effort to diversify its workforce. The company will double the number of its Black employees within five years as part of the...

Facebook, Twitter CEOs in Crosshairs of GOP Senators

Associated Press: The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter accelerated after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship. The committee wants to hear from them about “the...

Fox Corp Pulls News Host Amid Flap Over Gender Pay

Los Angeles Times: Melissa Francis, regularly seen on the popular Fox News midday talk show “Outnumbered,” has been off the air for two weeks and is probably at the end of her six-year run at the network. Francis had filed a gender-based pay discrimination claim...

Trump-Branded Media Outlet Floated Again by Kushner

Business Insider: Jared Kushner has been talking up the idea of starting a Donald Trump-themed news outlet or some other media company, possibly as soon as after the election. The timing so close to Election Day has Trump advisors wondering if Kushner is anticipating...

Tribune in Gender Pay Lawsuit at New York Daily News

New York Times: Anna Sanders, a former City Hall reporter for the New York Daily News, has sued the paper, its top editor and its parent company, Tribune Publishing, for wrongful termination, saying she was fired after questioning why she was paid less than a male...

Conde Nast Offers $100 Coffee-Table Book from Vogue

Vogue: "Vogue: Fantasy and Fashion," edited by Vogue archivist Laird Borrelli-Persson, celebrates the magazine's many reinterpretations of fantastical tales, from "Alice in Wonderland" to "Snow White." Says Borrelli-Persson: "In order to become better or move forward,...

Hearst Finds New Home for Magazines in Bowling Alley

WFMZ: It was once a car dealership, then a bowling alley. Now, the Heritage Riverview project in Easton, Pa. is almost ready for Hearst Magazines and other potential tenants to move in. Hearst Magazines will occupy most, 33,000 square feet, of the building. There will...

Penske Collects Industry Data on Entertainment, Music

WWD: Penske Media, the publisher of WWD, Variety and Rolling Stone, among others, and MRC are merging their respective data businesses. The deal will bring together PMC’s Variety Business Intelligence and Alpha Data with MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Music) and the two...

Time Magazine Replaces Logo with ‘Vote’ in New Issue

USA Today: For the first time in its 97-year history, Time magazine is removing its logo from its cover. In its place, a directive: “Vote.” Edward Felsenthal, Time’s editor-in-chief and chief executive, wrote in a note that the upcoming Nov. 3 elections are “arguably...



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