At 49, Levien is the youngest person to reach the New York Times' CEO job, and her rise at the paper has been astonishingly swift. In 2013, she was hired away from Forbes and by 2015, she had been promoted to chief revenue officer followed by chief operating officer in 2017. “I don’t know when she sleeps. She must, but it’s a mystery to everyone,” said Mike Perlis, her former boss at Forbes. Read more about the new chief executive below. - With product, design and technology under her oversight, Meredith Kopit Levien was the natural choice to inherit the CEO mantle.
- For Digiday+ members, Amazon's IMDb TV plans to add a more TV-like viewing experience, while Pluto TV's latest update plays up its TV programming.
- This week, Google has ramped up its lobbying efforts in Australia after the competition regulator there issued a draft bill that proposes forcing tech giants to pay publishers for their news content. Here's what global publishers need to know.
- While brands were skittish to buy at first, Condé Nast is using its first-ever Virtual Events Upfront to get them on board to sponsor its 200 virtual events scheduled through the end of the year.
- The Democratic and Republican party conventions can be the Super Bowl for news publishers. The move to virtual conventions has made 2020 very different.
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howdy! | Business of TV | | | | Amazon’s IMDb TV plans to add a more TV-like viewing experience, while Pluto TV’s latest update plays up its TV programming. | | |
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howdy! | Publishing in the Platform Era | | | | Tech giants are facing increasing pressure around the world to pay news publishers for their content. In Australia, Google is putting up a fight. | | |
| Sponsored by Twitter | | | | With only cardboard cutouts to fill stadium seats in a time of pandemic, the place to reach sports fans is on social media, and brands are creating messaging to join that conversation. | | |
howdy! | Beyond Ads | | | | While brands were skittish to buy at first, Condé Nast hopes its virtual events upfront will get them on board. | | |
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| Sponsored by LiveRamp | | | | Even as web browsers phase out third-party cookies, a substantial percentage of publishers say they have no plans to find alternate ways to authenticate user identity. | | |
howdy! | Coronavirus Fallout | | | | The Democratic and Republican party conventions can be the Super Bowl for news publishers. The move to virtual conventions has made 2020 very different. | | |
howdy! | DIGIDAY+ MEMBER EXCLUSIVE | | | | Facing a climate of deepening mistrust in the news media, news organizations reducing their office space should consider ways they can maintain their visibility in towns and cities up and down the country. | | |
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