• Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special

• Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Leaked Netflix documents of metrics evaluating shows indicate $24.1M spent on Chappelle's The Closer vs. $21.4M on Squid Game

• Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: Axel Springer CEO details plans for Politico, including expanding staff from 900 to 1,000, publishing in several languages, and eventually adding a paywall

• Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Disney shares briefly rose ~3% on Friday after a Puck report said the company might spin off ESPN; a Disney source later said the story was inaccurate

• Justin Peters / Slate: Ben Smith has been transparent about his BuzzFeed stock options, but his shifting divestment deadline and their fluctuating value erode trust in his reporting

• David Bauder / Associated Press: News Leaders Association extends deadline for its newsroom staff diversity survey to October 31, after receiving less than 250 responses when it wants 1,500

• Karolle Rabarison / Online Journalism Awards: 2021 Online Journalism Awards winners include The NYT, ProPublica, PublicSource, and Grist; WaPo won for its pandemic coverage

• Amanda Meade / The Guardian: News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson will appear before an Australian Senate inquiry into media diversity; Lachlan Murdoch turned down a request to appear last month

• Nikki Usher / Nieman Lab: With two-thirds of NPR's stations licensed to colleges, which are vulnerable to culture wars, stronger walls between license holders and newsrooms are needed

• Jason Hancock / Missouri Independent: Missouri's governor vows to prosecute a reporter he labeled a hacker after the reporter alerted the state to a website flaw that exposed teachers' SSNs

• Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: A look at OneLog, which lets readers use a single login across some of the largest Swiss media websites and expects to reach 2M active accounts by 2022

• Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: Netflix to launch the Netflix Book Club on November 16 featuring videos on Facebook and YouTube highlighting books it is adapting

• 65 minutes ago Amanda Meade / The Guardian: News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson will appear before an Australian Senate inquiry into media diversity; Lachlan Murdoch turned down a request to appear last month

• 13 hours ago Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Disney shares briefly rose ~3% on Friday after a Puck report said the company might spin off ESPN; a Disney source later said the story was inaccurate

• 14 hours ago Karolle Rabarison / Online Journalism Awards: 2021 Online Journalism Awards winners include The NYT, ProPublica, PublicSource, and Grist; WaPo won for its pandemic coverage   —  PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15, 2021 …

• 17 hours ago Justin Peters / Slate: Ben Smith has been transparent about his BuzzFeed stock options, but his shifting divestment deadline and their fluctuating value erode trust in his reporting

• 18 hours ago Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: Axel Springer CEO details plans for Politico, including expanding staff from 900 to 1,000, publishing in several languages, and eventually adding a paywall

• 19 hours ago Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Leaked Netflix documents of metrics evaluating shows indicate $24.1M spent on Chappelle's The Closer vs. $21.4M on Squid Game   —  The company is dealing with an internal outcry unprecedented in its history.

• 19 hours ago Alex Sujong Laughlin / Study Hall: Social media and audio production are just two of the invisible structures built to prop up a select few voices   —  Until late this summer, I worked as a senior producer …

• 20 hours ago Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special

• 21 hours ago Nikki Usher / Nieman Lab: With two-thirds of NPR's stations licensed to colleges, which are vulnerable to culture wars, stronger walls between license holders and newsrooms are needed

• 23 hours ago Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Netflix UK reports revenue of £172M in 2020, up 43% YoY, and pre-tax profits of £19.4M, up 50% YoY, and ~2M new subscribers, for an estimated total of 13M

• 24 hours ago Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: Netflix to launch the Netflix Book Club on November 16 featuring videos on Facebook and YouTube highlighting books it is adapting

• 26 hours ago David Bauder / Associated Press: News Leaders Association extends deadline for its newsroom staff diversity survey to October 31, after receiving less than 250 responses when it wants 1,500

• 26 hours ago Brent Lang / Variety: IATSE, the union representing backstage movie and TV workers, says that unless an agreement is reached, its 60K members will go on strike starting October 18

• 27 hours ago Ian Mohr / Page Six: NYT's Michael Grynbaum sells Empire of the Elite, a book on the history of Condé Nast, to Simon & Schuster   —  The New York Times' Michael Grynbaum has sold …

• 29 hours ago Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: A look at OneLog, which lets readers use a single login across some of the largest Swiss media websites and expects to reach 2M active accounts by 2022

• 35 hours ago Kayleigh Barber / Digiday: Axios HQ, Axios' SaaS tools to teach companies to write in its short style, has earned $1M from licensing, $2M from professional services, and has 150 clients

• 41 hours ago Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Q&A with Sam Ro, who has reported on financial news for Axios, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider, about why he is launching a Substack newsletter

• 42 hours ago Ax Sharma / Ars Technica: A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton”