A hearing has been set for a restraining order KFOR is seeking against Oklahoma State Department of Education Superintendent Ryan Walters and OSDE Press Secretary Dan Isett. The Oklahoma City NBC affiliate claims the Oklahoma State Department of Education, specifically Walters and Isett, are saying the 75-year broadcast station is not a legitimate news organization….Read More
Paramount Global implemented another round of major companywide layoffs Tuesday. In a memo to staff Tuesday morning, co-CEOs George Cheeks, Brian Robbins, and Chris McCarthy said the company would undergo “phase two” of its workforce reductions, and that by the end of the day, “90% of these reductions will be complete.” (THR) CBS Saturday Morning…Read More
People are ready to shop till they drop as inflation starts to ease, and more of that spending is being spurred by creators and social media influencers. This holiday season (which Adobe measures from between Nov. 1 to Dec. 31), U.S. online commerce sales are expected to reach $240.8 billion, an 8.4% growth compared to…Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump will participate in separate town halls next month hosted by Univision, the network announced Tuesday. (WaPo) Journalist Enrique Acevedo will field audience questions from undecided Hispanic voters. Trump will be the first to take the stage Oct. 8 in Miami, followed by Harris’ event in Las…Read More
Beginning next month, The New York Times will make its audio subscription available for purchase through Apple Podcasts and Spotify. (Axios) The Times will launch podcast subscriptions on the audio platforms, requiring users to pay if they want to access archived episodes of programs like The Daily and The Ezra Klein Show, or receive early…Read More
If you are a U.S. news publisher, you likely know that your traffic from social media has fallen–the question is just how much. (Nieman Lab) Now, some publications have found a glimmer of hope elsewhere: WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app. Late last year, the app introduced WhatsApp Channels, a kind of one-way broadcasting…Read More
ByteDance said it is shuttering its music streaming service, TikTok Music, in November. The service was available in Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and Mexico. (TechCrunch) TikTok Music’s shuttering marks the end of a four-year experiment in streaming by the company’s owner, ByteDance. It never arrived in the U.S., despite the company filing a trademark application…Read More
More than one-half of journalists in the U.S. considered quitting their job this year due to exhaustion or burnout, according to a new report by Muck Rack. (Poynter)Read More
Koch Inc.’s private equity arm is in ongoing talks on a bid to buy Forbes in partnership with another individual investor, sources told Axios. (Axios)Read More
Digital media company Vice relaunched its print magazine and debuted its first subscription product Tuesday, part of a broader renaissance of the publisher following its May 2023 bankruptcy filing. (ADWEEK)Read More
