The similar moves in the space:

• Uzabase, a Japanese company, bought Quartz for about $100 million in July.
• A mysterious Hong Kong-based group named Integrated Whale Media Investments bought control of Forbes magazine in 2014.
• Lachlan Murdoch is openly wondering whether his father Rupert might sell the Wall Street Journal. Should that ever happen, don't be surprised if that buyer, too, turns out to be East Asian.

Tech-rich Americans are perhaps more likely to just funnel money in the general direction of journalists, rather than buying trophies.

• Twitter co-founder Ev Williams has raised $132 million at Medium and is now raising even more.
• Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin has given $5 million to Civil.
• eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar put $50 million into First Look Media.
• Craigslist co-founder Craig Newmark has been showering millions of dollars on various nonprofit journalistic entities. He doesn't get to own anything, but he does get his name on a J-school.

The bottom line: Journalists tend to have mixed feelings when their publications are bought for nine-figure sums. On the one hand, it's a vote of confidence in their work and a sign that it's valuable. On the other hand, the money is going to sellers, not journalists. If the buyers expect a decent return on their investment, then the higher the purchase price, the bigger the un-reinvested dividends the new owner might demand.

• And, in the House, women constituted 40% of the incoming class, far above Goldman's 26%.
• Why it matters: Goldman knows it has a problem with under-representation of women. But the bank doesn't seem to be in any particular rush to fix that problem. Even its incoming entry-level analyst class isn't yet 50% female, and it won't reach that mark until 2021.

• Hulu's currently losing about $1 billion per year. Iger is saying that he wants that number to go up, not down.
• Hulu's losses aren't really losses. When Hulu pays its shareholders for new original programming, that's an expense for Hulu — but it increases the shareholders' revenues by the same amount.
• Expect more original content like "The Handmaid's Tale" and more aggressive competition with Netflix. Fox is Hollywood's leading television studio, and Iger wants it to remain more relevant than ever in a world where a new generation has very little interest in paying hundreds of dollars a month for a cable bundle.

The bottom line: Disney is very happy with the performance of its ESPN+ product and wants to recreate that success not only with the new Disney+, for family entertainment, but also with Hulu. Between them, the three services could be a formidable competitive threat to Netflix.

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