Media & Marketing

Learfield IMG College, the multimedia business that owns broadcast rights for many of the nation’s leading collegiate sports programs, is preparing for a possible financial restructuring as the coronavirus pandemic curtails athletics.

Print advertising fell 55% in the quarter, but the Times said it added 669,000 net new digital subscriptions in the second quarter, its biggest-ever single-quarter increase.

Media companies in Australia will be able to seek payment from Facebook and Google for news articles that are posted on their platforms, according to new rules.

Kodak sent a news advisory to media outlets without indicating the information wasn’t intended to be released publicly.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government’s new powers give it more leverage to press social media companies to remove content it doesn’t like, sending a chill through the country’s human-rights activists and dissidents

Australian lawmakers have agreed to overhaul the country’s defamation laws for the social-media age and make them less favorable for celebrities and public figures who claim their reputations have been smeared.

The new board chairman says he discovered a number of troubling transactions at the influential Black-owned magazine.

There will be fewer in-person journalists than usual covering the unprecedented event, and maintaining the health of those reporters, the basketball players and employees is key to the resilience of the already abridged NBA season.

The owner of Ebony magazine is being forced into bankruptcy by creditors who say they want to take over the publication, which has chronicled Black culture for 75 years but has declined since being sold by its founding publisher.

A media venture co-founded by NFL legends Tom Brady and Michael Strahan and filmmaker Gotham Chopra, has raised $10 million to produce more video and audio content, including content it plans to finance on its own.

Snap’s shares fell after it said revenue growth slowed in the second quarter, but its competitors may bear even more shade from investors.

The $32 million Series A round, which consists of new equity and debt, values the company, incorporated as Bullpen Sports Network Inc., at between $50 million and $100 million, according to Ishaan Sutaria, the president of Wave.tv.

The anchor has told the network’s management she believes she wasn’t considered by certain Black colleagues to be an authentic voice for the Black community, a person familiar with the matter said.

For decades, Hong Kong’s press freedoms have made it a hub for Western media organizations covering Asia. Beijing's new national-security law is causing many newsrooms to rethink the city’s status as a haven for journalists.

Vox Media, the publisher of New York magazine, the Verge and SB Nation, is preparing for a round of layoffs as its financial situation continues to suffer from the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The satellite-radio giant said the addition of Stitcher would enable it to reach more than 150 million listeners.

Terms related to protests were on “blocklists” companies use to avoid ad placements in sensitive content. News publishers say such moves effectively punish media companies for covering important issues.

Amitabh Bachchan and his actor son Abhishek have tested positive for the coronavirus and checked into a Mumbai hospital. Abhishek’s wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan—another giant of the Indian film industry—has also tested positive but is asymptomatic.

The comedian-turned-media executive’s new home spans 9,000 square feet and looks out onto the surrounding mountains.