Digital Marketing

Insiders Wonder What '60 Minutes' Will Look Like After Firings

CBS News management has reached out to the three remaining full-time “60 Minutes” correspondents — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — following the firing of Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, the Guardian reports. And staffers wonder how the show will be reconstituted. “It is not going to look like ’60 Minutes’ in the fall,”

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PETA Sues Washington, DC Metro For Barring Its Ads

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sued the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), charging that it blocked three PETA ads on the system because of a rule that prohibits “advertisements intended to influence members of the public regarding an issue on which there are varying opinions.” The complaint states, “For reasons unknown to

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Dow Jones Is Cutting Staff As It Merges Two Units, Union Charges

Dow Jones advised staffers this week that it plans to merge Publishing Editors and Platform Editors into “a single multiskilled digital production department,” Talking Biz News reports based on input from the IAPE union. The company also plans to reduce staff by ten positions and is inviting editors to volunteer for layoffs. Four members from

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News Is Booming On FAST Channels, But Advertisers Cautious About Brand Safety

News now accounts for 8.6% of all FAST viewing hours, with some households consuming news content almost exclusively, according to a new report from Wurl, Demand Gen Report writes. But many advertisers still rely on broad genre- and channel-level exclusions that limit access to news inventory entirely, said Wurl CEO Dave Bernath. “Brand safety has

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