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Kirkus Reviews, the well-respected 76-year-old bi-monthly collection of book analysis, is being shuttered by its parent company, Nielsen Business Media. As part of a reorganization, the company will also shutter the 108-year-old Editor & Publisher — a monthly review of the newspaper business that was well read throughout the industry and launched many careers. Nielsen Business Media will also sell off eight other brands, including Adweek, Mediaweek, Backstage, Billboard, and The Hollywood Reporter. The new company e5 Global Media Holdings purchased those titles and several other Nielsen properties. “As a result of these decisions, many of our friends and colleagues within these businesses will be leaving the company or will begin to transition to the new ownership immediately,” wrote Nielsen president Greg Ferrar in a letter to the company today. “The transition is expected to be complete by the end of the year.” … [Read more...] about Nielsen Business Media Shutting Down

Biden, by contrast, makes relatively little news for a major-party nominee. There are times, especially since the conventions, when he has attacked Trump in harshly personal terms. But even after emerging from months of basement seclusion, Biden generally uses the more prosaic language of conventional politicians. His social media feed is a snooze. … [Read more...] about Trump’s media domination fueled his rise — and now could backfire

What’s more, the Kremlin’s efforts were foiled when Moscow attempted to run the same play in the French elections. While France’s media blackout laws proved beneficial, the American experience may have served as a cautionary tale, leaving journalists more attuned to what was unfolding. Just this month, moreover, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow did her colleagues a service by reporting on what may well have been a Russian forgery purporting to be a U.S. intelligence report. Rather than rush to publish a scoop, Maddow and her team’s deliberate approach helped inoculate against future such attempts. (Full disclosure: I’m an NBC analyst and contributor).  … [Read more...] about Memo to the Media: Don’t Abet the Next Assault on Our Democracy

People are making bingos about everything, whether it’s a university, zodiac sign or ethnicity. Bingo questions usually follow a “never have I ever” format that users cross off until they eliminate all the spaces on a card to make bingo. Users tag friends and post to their social media. This classic game -- which started in the 1500s in Italy -- has been sweeping social media sites and bonding friends over shared interests and activities. … [Read more...] about Millennials Connect Via Social Media Challenges During COVID-19

“Go back and look at the statements of the president or Fauci or [CDC Director Robert] Redfield or [Surgeon General Jerome] Adams and you are going to get the same sort of timeline and the expectations that were being said at the time that we’re reading now in the Woodward book that everybody is so surprised about,” Concha said. … [Read more...] about Joe Concha blasts media’s claim that Trump ‘misled’ the public following Woodward book revelations