For Ankler Media CEO Janice Min, 2024 was the inflection point when advertisers finally understood that when it comes to audiences, it’s not all about size. “Our goal is to have the largest, most pristine audience we can have in terms of the subscriber list,” said Min, former editorial director at The Hollywood Reporter and…
Outside of the record-setting Olympic Games revenue announced by NBCUniversal parent company Comcast during its third-quarter earnings, the company made news by announcing exploratory plans to spin off its cable networks into a new company. (ADWEEK) Flagship streaming service Peacock added 3 million subscribers to reach 36 million. (Deadline) Peacock grew its third-quarter revenue and…
Venom: The Last Dance is No. 1 at the box office, but the comic book film fell significantly short of expectations. The third and final entry in Sony’s Marvel antihero series, led by Tom Hardy, opened to a muted $51 million from 4,125 North American theaters. (Variety) That’s well behind an expected $65 million, or…
Nika Soon-Shiong, the outspoken pro-Palestinian activist daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, defended the paper’s non-endorsement of a presidential candidate Friday, saying in an X thread that “genocide is the line in the sand” and suggesting that Harris is “a candidate that is overseeing a war on children.” (TheWrap) “Our family made the…
On Friday, The Washington Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for president–after its journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner. (CJR) “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote…
The Los Angeles Times lost two more longtime editorial writers, the latest in a growing exodus to protest owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s interference with the paper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, TheWrap can exclusively report. (TheWrap) Oliver Darcy: Why hasn’t The Washington Post made an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race? It’s a question,…
David Hoffmann already bought 5% of one of America’s largest newspaper companies. Now, he wants to control the whole thing. (NYT)
Veteran Quebec TV executive Marie-Philippe Bouchard was named the next president and CEO of CBC/Radio Canada. (THR)
Former Las Vegas county politician Robert Telles was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for the murder of Jeff German, a local journalist who had written critically about him. (Axios) A judge invoked sentencing enhancements for use of a deadly weapon and the age of the reporter to add…
Political journalist Ryan Lizza accused his ex-fiancee, acclaimed magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, of “catastrophically reckless behavior” in a yearlong affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that led to the journalists’ breakup this summer, according to new court filings in an ongoing dispute between Lizza and Nuzzi. (CNN) Kennedy told Nuzzi–his alleged “paramour,” 39 years his…
North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson sued CNN Tuesday over its recent report that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory. (AP) The report said that in posts on a porn site called Nude Africa, Robinson, who is running as a social…
Dan Lovinger, who supervised an increasingly complex Olympic Games ad-sales effort for NBCUniversal and delivered what is believed to be a record level of Madison Avenue sponsorship for the recent 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, is leaving the company as it seeks to revamp its efforts to lure advertisers to sports. (Variety) Lovinger will depart…
Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately, and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media–such as newspapers, television, and radio–first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so…
Fox News announced Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris would sit down for an interview with its chief political anchor, Bret Baier, Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. ET. (TVNewser) It will be her first sit-down with the network and her first interview with a news outlet outside of her ideological comfort zone since becoming…
Terrifier 3 slashed its way to No. 1 in North America, collecting a stellar $18.3 million from 2,514 theaters in its opening weekend. It’s a huge start for the ultra-gory, independently made, low-budget slasher film about a demonic clown who brutalizes a small town. (Variety) The next closest film is The Wild Robot, which continues…
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign worked with X to prevent information about Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) from being posted on the social media platform–a move that resulted in Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who revealed the information, being kicked off the site, according to reports. (The Guardian) The dossier was made public by Klippenstein, who…
A suddenly roofless Tropicana Field. A construction crane toppling over and crashing into the Tampa Bay Times offices. Those are some of the searing images that aired on the major networks when Hurricane Milton made landfall on the Florida Peninsula Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm. (TVNewser) As Hurricane Milton approached Florida, meteorologists were…
Shams Charania is leaving The Athletic to join ESPN as its top National Basketball Association insider. Charania announced the news Monday on X to his more than 2.4 million followers, writing: “I am honored to join ESPN as the company’s senior NBA insider. I can’t wait to be part of an incredible group of colleagues…
The European Union’s top court sided with a privacy challenge to Meta’s data retention policies. It ruled Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people’s information for ad targeting indefinitely. (TechCrunch) “Following this ruling, only a small part of Meta’s data pool will be allowed to be used for advertising–even when users…
Approximately 75 staffers in Disney’s ABC News and local-station operations will be laid off, part of a series of moves across the large media conglomerate that aim to cut costs amid a difficult operating environment. (Variety) According to Variety, these reductions are in addition to the 300 roles that Disney eliminated last week within its…
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