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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Disney to end Netflix film distribution deal in 2019, will launch ESPN streaming service in 2018 and Disney streaming services in 2019 — Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.
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Disney will pay $1.58B to acquire additional 42% stake in BAMTech, making it a majority stakeholder — The Walt Disney Company announced today that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018 …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Disney's Iger: strategic shift to streaming is both a defensive and offensive move that will include sacrifices, but is ultimately a better model — Disney is ready to deploy some of the company's crown jewels — Disney- and Pixar-branded movies and ESPN — in an effort to position itself …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sinclair's bid to buy Tribune Media draws opposition from advocacy groups, Dish Network, and conservative outlets including Newsmax, OANN, and The Blaze — The Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed acquisition of Tribune Media has ignited expected opposition from left-leaning advocacy groups …
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Mozilla launches the Mozilla Information Trust Initiative, with the aim of combatting online misinformation through new products, research, more — Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser, announced today a new program to combat online misinformation.
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David McCabe / Axios:
Techdirt receives $250K+ from a group of wealthy backers, including Craig Newmark, to support its legal battle with Hulk Hogan's lawyer Charles Harder — An eclectic group is financially backing TechDirt, a tech news site being sued for libel by the same lawyer who who helped take down Gawker.
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Nieman Lab, @jackshafer, @jason_kint, @dmccabe, @niemanlab and Talking Biz News
David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: French telecom giant Altice and its US subsidiary, Altice USA, are working on a bid for Charter Communications — - The French telecom giant and its U.S. cable subsidiary, Altice USA, are working on an offer to buy Charter, according to people close to the situation.
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Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Interview with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, EFF's senior staff technologist, on increasing user trust by decreasing the use of third-party trackers — Last year, Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan at Princeton University looked at the top 1 million sites on the internet and found …
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with John Stankey, the current head of AT&T's entertainment group who will run Time Warner post-acquisition — “Investment in content is going to increase,” says John Stankey in his first interview since being named to oversee HBO, Warner Bros. and CNN as he reveals …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
BuzzFeed Germany is struggling to attract readers and advertisers, with just 3.5M monthly unique visitors in June and less than 500K likes on Facebook — With Germany's federal election coming up Sept. 24, BuzzFeed Germany is pushing further into news and politics coverage …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
President Trump continues tweeting against The Washington Post and The New York Times in apparent effort to delegitimize outside sources of information — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, President Trump has escalated his assaults on the “Fake News” media and other institutions …
Chris Ariens / Adweek:
Bloomberg to launch management consultancy unit using data from terminals, research arms, and analysts, will charge businesses $150K-$200K/month — Tapping its deep resources to provide consulting services for businesses — Bloomberg is leveraging its vast reach in financial data …
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