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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren rejects an invitation to a Fox News town hall, calls the outlet a “hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists” — Elizabeth Warren turned down a Fox News invitation Tuesday for a televised town hall and denounced the cable network as a …
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Comcast agrees to sell its stake in Hulu to Disney in five years at a $27.5B valuation or appraisal amount; Comcast to relinquish voting rights immediately — Comcast has agreed to sell its stake in Hulu in five years to Disney and give up its voting rights immediately.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: NBC's streaming service will be free to customers paying for live TV; about $10/month for cord cutters and won't include live or same-season shows — KEY POINTS — NBC is purposely making its cord-cutting version of its streaming service worse than the free version that comes with a pay-TV subscription.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify-owned Soundtrap launches Soundtrap for Storytellers, a cloud-based podcast creation platform with advanced features, for $14.99 per month — In November 2017, Spotify picked up the online music studio Soundtrap as part of its efforts to offer more services to artists on its platform.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Research group identifies disinformation campaign that published 135 articles on sites impersonating media outlets or on sites where users can post content — An ambitious online disinformation campaign that impersonated major media outlets, used fake Twitter accounts to spread false articles …
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Amrita Khalid / Engadget:
Report: sources say WarnerMedia plans to prioritize its streaming service, set to launch in 2020, by streaming new episodes of popular shows before they hit TV — AT&T's WarnerMedia may debut new episodes of popular shows on its upcoming streaming service, right before they hit cable.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
YouTube creators threatened by EU's new copyright directive due to the difficulty of automatically allowing fair use of copyrighted material through filters — KEY POINTS — YouTube creators fear their livelihood and creative outlet could be threatened by a new EU copyright directive …
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Sources: CBS and Viacom boards have been in negotiations regarding a merger, but National Amusements can't initiate merger discussions until September 2020 — The more than $1 billion in “cost synergies” identified by bankers and executives in the long-rumored deal pushed by Shari Redstone is code for “big job losses.”
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Bleacher Report will start its gaming-related programming from Las Vegas this summer, says its sports betting category grew 3x faster than any other category — KEY POINTS — Bleacher Report betting big on sports gambling — Sports gambling is about to get a big boost from the Bleacher.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Podcast analytics company Chartable launches SmartLinks, which uses trackable URLs and cookies to let creators know how listeners found their podcasts — How effective are links to podcasts in driving listeners? — A recently launched podcast analytics company is debuting its newest product today …
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American Press Institute and @ashleyrcarman
Ethan Zuckerman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Study: French media across the left/right divide is controlled by papers of record that often link to each other rather than to fringe sites, unlike in the US — During the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook became a battleground of persuasion and disinformation.
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Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg:
US sanctions have caused paper and ink prices to rise in Iran; two government owned dailies have cut coverage and journalists fear layoffs — A lack of headlines is making headlines in Iran. — The economic hardship triggered by a year of U.S. sanctions has extended to the Islamic Republic's newspapers …
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