Consumer Media and Publishing

Condé Nast is starting out the year with staff cuts to the Glamour magazine team, part of the parent company's overall reorganization plan. According to WWD, Glamour cut staff last week, including an assistant editor and executive beauty editor. This news comes just two months after Glamour announced that the 80-year-old fashion and beauty magazine would cease publication at the beginning of this year. The January 2019 issue was the magazine's last regular print issue. The magazine may, however, print special editions occasionally.

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Digital publishing platform Medium is adding a consumer subscription product in the next quarter, reports TechCrunch. Ev Williams, Medium's CEO, made the announcement last week at the Upfront Summit. According to Williams' announcement, the first version of the product will launch this spring and he calls it an "upgrade" to the current reader experience. This news comes just one month after Williams announced major changes at Medium, including the elimination of 50 jobs, closing of its New York and Washington, D.C. offices and the elimination of a native advertising model that two dozen or so publishers had been testing.

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Escape the latest political news with these subscription news stories. This week, USA Today launches an ad-free, in-app offering for $2.99 a month, LinkedIn tests autoplay video ads, and Spotify offers artists a sophisticated analytics dashboard to help them learn more about their fans. Also this week, Costco may have a membership retention problem, advertisers show interest in Amazon's NFL experiment, and Time Inc. cuts costs by cutting circulation and frequency.

Parler returns to the App Store, Twitch drops subscription prices, and Uber and Lyft will provide free rides to COVID-19 vaccine sites in a deal with the White House.

The New York Times Co. is investing resources into paid newsletters to rival services like Substack, Twitter and Facebook.

Ad revenue for newspapers has been falling for years, but the migration of ad dollars, especially to Facebook and Google, are pushing news orgs away from ad-based revenue models.