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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
NBC News faces skepticism that it can reform in-house sexual harassment amid more accusations against Matt Lauer and new accusations against Tom Brokaw — NBC News Chairman Andy Lack had barely slept. Late the night before, he had walked from the art deco headquarters of NBC Universal …
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Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Amazon to raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the US, the first increase in 4 years, going into effect for new subs on May 11 and existing subs in June — The increase is effective for new customers starting May 11. — Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership …
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Eugene Kim / CNBC:
Amazon's “other” sales, mostly comprised of its advertising revenue, jumped 139% to $2.03B in Q1, the first time sales have surpassed $2B — - Amazon's quarterly advertising sales surpassed $2 billion for the first time in the first quarter. — Amazon doesn't break …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: AT&T raised idea of settling DOJ antitrust suit in March, but talks stalled after it became clear DOJ wanted full divestiture of Turner, which owns CNN — Many observers see the case tilting toward AT&T, but crucial questions still sow doubt: could AT&T use Time Warner's content to squeeze competitors?
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DOJ antitrust chief says his “line is always open” if AT&T wants to settle AT&T/Time Warner case, but he's not expecting anything; closing arguments come Monday — Why the AT&T-Time Warner trial matters — The Justice Department's antitrust chief Makan Delrahim said on Thursday his …
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Claims by Joy Reid's cybersecurity expert that her old blog was compromised fall apart when compared with archived versions — MSNBC host Joy Reid claims that recently unearthed homophobic articles attributed to her are fakes. And she says a cybersecurity consultant has proof that her old blog has been hacked.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Southern California's two large public TV stations, KCET in Los Angeles and Orange County's KOCE, are merging, with KOCE's Andrew Russell to run combined entity — After clawing for seven years over the same turf, Southern California's two large public television stations — KCET and KOCE …
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Bloomberg:
A look at YouTube's strategy moving forward from a painful year, as it tries to rein in abusive content while encouraging creators and reassuring advertisers — Extremist propaganda, dangerous hoaxes, videos of tasered rats—the company is having its worst year ever. Except financially.
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Ashley Gold / Politico:
House hearing on social media content filtering devolved into bickering as vloggers Diamond and Silk denied that Trump campaign paid them, contrary to FEC data — A House Judiciary Committee hearing headlined by pro-Trump video-bloggers Diamond and Silk quickly devolved into yelling …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the future of Hulu, which, sources say, is nearing 20M subscribers, up 18% in 4 months aided by Handmaid's Tale and Live TV — As season 2 of the reigning Emmy champ debuts and the streaming service once nicknamed “Clown Co.” now nears 20 million subscribers …
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Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg:
Facebook CTO says only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for political ads in the UK and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a campaign — Social network's CTO makes promises to British lawmakers — Facebook Inc. said it will make sure political ads on its platform …
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Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
EU lawmakers, member states strike preliminary deal to make streaming platforms finance production of local content in proportion to revenues in the country — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries …
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