- Cable News Viewing Falls Vs. Q4, MSNBC Dominates Total Day
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Collective Nielsen-measured viewers for Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNBC were up 3% in total day viewing to 4.04 million, largely due to heightened viewing and the events around t ...
- Reuters Names Alessandra Galloni As Editor-in-Chief
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Galloni, who is replacing retiring Stephen J. Adler will oversee an operation with 2,500 journalists. ...
- TBWA\Chiat\Day LA Leads Effort To Curb Vaccine Skepticism Within BPOC Community
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, April 8, 2021
The agency orchestrated the production of a filmed roundtable featuring Black artists and health experts addressing vaccine benefits. ...
- Scripps OTT Newsy Now An Over-The-Air TV Platform
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The network will launch October 1, covering 80% of U.S. TV homes in all major markets. ...
- Supreme Court Won't Revive Right-Wing Activists' Lawsuit Against Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
In a defeat for right-wing activists Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider reviving a lawsuit accusing Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple of conspiri ...
- Tiny News Collective Receives Investment From Google News Initiative
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 2, 2021
The TNC's mission is to support founders unrepresented in media ownership. ...
- Time Viewed On Cable Nets Rose In 2020, Ad Concerns Remain
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 1, 2021
In 2020, live cable TV viewing grew 20% among all cable networks, largely due to sharply increasing news coverage. But long-term ad concerns remain for cable networks, says one anal ...
- Reuters' Vaccine Data Collaboration With Amazon Is Likely To Disappoint
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Reuters claims Amazon customers will get answers to questions about the availability and eligibility for vaccines in more than 85 countries and all 50 U.S. states. ...
- New Tool Helps Ad Buyers Choose Sites That Reflect A Company's Values
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
NewsGuard offers both inclusion and exclusion capabilities for programmatic advertisers. ...
- Fox Remains Dominant Right-Wing Political News Source, But Newsmax, OAN Gaining
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
While Fox News Channel remains the dominant source for political news among Republicans, especially conservative ones, newer TV news rivals Newsmax and OAN (One America News) have made significant inroad ...
- Yahoo Completely Revamps Its Web, Mobile Experiences In Relaunch
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Yahoo is reimagining and redesigning its web and mobile experiences across ecommerce, email, search, and news. It has stepped up to become a major platform by personalizing and monetizing i ...
- Judge Blasts Media For Supposed Anti-GOP Bias, Wants To Gut Libel Protections
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 19, 2021
"New considerations have arisen over the last 50 years that make the New York Times decision ... a threat to American Democracy. It must go," Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman wr ...
- TV's Murder Obsession Turns Serial Killers Into Stars
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, March 22, 2021
The next few weeks are shaping up as a veritable springtime for serial killers on TV. ...
- SXSW: Journalists Discuss Struggle To Keep Local News Publishers Alive
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
During the virtual SXSW event Wednesday, a discussion with local newspaper journalists about the rapidly shrinking industry and diminished coverage of vitally important beats that hold local governments, elected official ...
- Why These Markets Attract And Keep Consumers On Sites Longest
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The data is the basis for a report published today by Perficient in which Eric Enge, principal of digital marketing solutions for the company, analyzed traffic patterns in the U. ...
- Have More People Become More Awful?
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, March 16, 2021
There seems to be a little more ignorance in the world, a little less compassion, a little more bullying and a lot less courtesy. ...
- Facebook Australia News Ban Fiasco Missed The Mark
Digital News Daily, Andrew Mason - Monday, March 15, 2021
Facebook and the Australian government have reached an agreement to restore news sharing, but a compromised one, highlighting misunderstandings and misconceptions in online media. ...
- Publishers See Gains In Referrals, Though Direct Traffic Is Strong
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, March 12, 2021
News Break's app logged the biggest yearly gain with a more than tenfold increase in referral traffic to 698.1 million. ...
- The COVID Bump
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 15, 2021
If you want to understand what institutions people truly trust, pose an existential threat. That, more or less, is what a year of the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and n ...
- Google Calls Microsoft An Opportunist That Could Break The Web
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 12, 2021
Kent Walker, Google SVP of global affairs, wrote that as competition in cloud computing, search, productivity apps, video conferencing, email and other areas heats up, Microsoft is "reverting to the ...
- Where You Get Your News Matters
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, March 11, 2021
You should never rely on the same sources day in and day out without occasionally going outside your comfort zone. ...
- Congress Must Pass Law To Support News Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, March 12, 2021
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) would grant news publishers a limited exemption from antitrust laws, giving them greater power to collectively negotiate payments from Facebook and Google f ...
- Comcast TV Homes See 25% Rise In Live TV Viewing
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 11, 2021
Much of this upward trajectory came from cable TV news networks, due to an intense election year. ...
- U.S. To Introduce Bill Making Google, Facebook Pay For Publishers' Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
A bill being introduced Wednesday by U.S. lawmakers would make it easier for news organizations to negotiate collectively with platforms like Google and Facebook to get a better price f ...
- Fox's 'Loyal Opposition' Is Just Loyalty To A Good TV Marketing Scheme
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Advertisers generally don't care about marketing themes. But they do care when some content is so egregious they need to bail. ...
- Harry And Meghan In The Dock Of Public Opinion
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
If the Duke and Duchess were trying to make their case for being left alone by the world's news media, then mission NOT accomplished. ...
- News Sites Show Early Signs of Post-Trump Slump
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The news media wrote three times as many stories about Trump in February 2017, the first full month of his presidency, than it did about Biden four years later. ...
- Fox Corp. Won't Take On Big Media's SVOD Platforms, Looks To AVOD
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 5, 2021
"We believe we can win in the advertising video-on-demand world... in a much more careful and clever way," Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said. He adds that national TV ...
- Sinclair Lays Off Nearly 600, Citing Pandemic's Impacts
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 4, 2021
The operator of local TV stations announced a 5% force reduction. Political ad gains failed to offset declines in core advertising and RSN distribution fees last year, leaving Sinclair wi ...
- Don't Worry, Be Unhappy
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 4, 2021
The most unhappy app environments are -- in this order -- social, utility, news and games (tied), according to a recent survey. ...