CBS News announced in August that CBS Mornings would gain a third hour. The network unveiled more details surrounding that new programming block, starting with the title: CBS Mornings Plus, debuting Monday, Sept. 30, at 9 a.m. ET. (TVNewser) CBS Mornings Plus will be co-anchored by Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz, and it will air…Read More
The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against two employees of a Russian state-run media company and seizing internet domains used by the Kremlin to spread disinformation. (AP) At Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direction, three Russian companies used fake profiles…Read More
The Internet Archive lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for wide-scale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”…Read More
Disney found itself in the middle of another major TV carriage dispute, but this rift goes deeper into the world of streaming and TV than you might expect. (ADWEEK) What began as routine haggling over the rates satellite TV provider DirecTV would pay to distribute Disney’s television networks is turning into a referendum on the…Read More
Barricaded doors and records kept secret? Inside the Nevada battle for control of the Fox News empire–and whether the whole drama should be sealed off from public view. (Puck) A coalition of media organizations, including CNN, petitioned a Nevada court to open up the secret proceedings surrounding a legal battle over the future of billionaire…Read More
ADWEEK has exclusively learned that Omnicom Media Group and WPP won Amazon’s media review. (ADWEEK)Read More
BDG–the owner of Bustle, Nylon, and other women-focused media brands–closed a growth investment from Medici Capital Partners, Axios has learned. (Axios)Read More
Vox Media is expanding its print offerings. This year, the digital media company is launching The Cut’s first-ever Fall Fashion Issue. (ADWEEK)Read More
The stock price of Trump Media & Technology Group closed Wednesday at $16.98 and is down more than 74% from the high-water mark it hit after Trump Media’s merger in March with a publicly traded shell company. (NYT)Read More
The financial news publisher The Wall Street Journal is offering advertisers a performance guarantee, timed to the upcoming U.S. presidential election, to dissuade them from pausing their ad campaigns during the period. The guarantee, which is offered in collaboration with the attention vendor Adelaide, will be effective for impressions measured between Oct. 15 and Nov….Read More
