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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: Spielberg doesn't want to kill Netflix, he wants to preserve the theater experience and is frustrated at resistance to compromise on exclusivity — LOS ANGELES — It has the makings of a great screenplay: As the future of an entire industry hangs in the balance …
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
In a win for streaming services like Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences votes not to change eligibility rules for the 92nd Oscars
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Pew Research Center:
Survey of 2,791 adult US Twitter users shows they are younger, more likely to be Democrats, and have higher incomes than US adults overall — U.S. adult Twitter users are younger and more likely to be Democrats than the general public. Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users
Twitter:
Twitter is adding an option to report attempts to mislead election voters, which will be available in India from April 25 and the EU from April 29 — Voting is a fundamental human right and the public conversation occurring on Twitter is never more important than during elections.
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BBC:
Lyra McKee's funeral, which took place in Belfast on Wednesday, was attended by UK Prime Minister Theresa May and President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins — A priest received a standing ovation at Lyra McKee's funeral when he asked mourners why it took her death to unite political parties.
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Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
The Joe Rogan Experience has requested to be removed from the Luminary podcast platform, possibly signaling a broader cascade of withdrawals — The Joe Rogan Experience has requested to be removed from the Luminary platform, I've confirmed. — The team explicitly cites licensing issues as the reason behind the intent to withdraw.
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Molly Smith / Bloomberg:
Netflix increases the size of its bond offering, which will fund content and production, from $2B to $2.24B — - Company will issue $2.24 billion for content, production — Demand soars as CEO warns that debt issuance will slow down — Investors took heed of Netflix Inc.'s advice …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T Q1: WarnerMedia revenue rose 3.3% YoY to $8.38B, missing analyst estimates, as DirecTV and U-verse TV lost 544K net subscribers, and DirecTV Now lost 83K — AT&T's missed on the top-line with first quarter sales coming in under Wall Street targets.
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Ad-blocking browser Brave rolls out optional Brave Ads; users who opt in get 70% of the gross ad revenue in tokens that can be donated to websites and creators — Brave today rolled out Brave Ads, its digital advertising model, to desktop users in Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. …
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Reuters:
Sources: Airbnb has ambitions to develop a slate of original content including shows, films, and documentaries, to whet customers' appetite for travel — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hollywood has a new suitor in Silicon Valley. — Airbnb Inc, the high-flying startup for booking home rentals around …
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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
TV in Turkey frequently airs misinformation and hoaxes without corrections, due to over-reliance on news agencies, lack of time, and lack of journalistic talent — After news broke of a fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris last week, misinformation about its origins started almost immediately.
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Religion News Service:
AP, Religion News Service, and The Conversation partner to create a joint global religion news desk, funded by an 18-month, $4.9M grant from Lilly Endowment — NEW YORK — Religion News Foundation (RNF), Religion News Service (RNS), The Associated Press (AP) and The Conversation announced today …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
The Markup's co-founder Julia Angwin is out as editor in chief of the new nonprofit tech watchdog site; Angwin says she was pushed out by co-founder Sue Gardner — For the last year, the investigative journalist Julia Angwin has been busy building The Markup, a nonprofit news site dedicated …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Firing of The Markup's editor in chief Julia Angwin triggers revolt, as all editorial staff sign a letter of “unequivocal support” and the majority resign
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Andrew Blustein / The Drum:
IAB Tech Lab replaces VPAID, its old spec for delivering interactive video ads, which didn't work on mobile, with a new publisher-friendly, cross-platform spec — Ten years ago, IAB Tech Lab released the Video Player Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) to support building interactive online video ads.
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Steven Perlberg / Politico:
How the Intercept has aggressively moved to cover and challenge the divided Democratic Party since the 2016 election, often attacking from the left — Captain Mark Kelly, the former astronaut, has a picture-perfect political résumé: the Space Shuttle commander and veteran …
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