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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
CEO Randall Stephenson says AT&T will pull popular Warner Bros. shows from streaming rivals as it launches its own streaming service later this year — “We'll be bringing a lot of these media rights, licensing rights, back to ourselves," Randall Stephenson told an industry conference as the studio stands to lose licensing dollars.
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Explaining the Hulu/Disney/Comcast breakup: as media companies get bigger to compete with tech, many shows will scatter from Netflix and Hulu to rival services — All the big media companies want their own streaming service. Big question: Do you want to subscribe to lots of streaming services?
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CNBC:
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 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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Audrey Cooper / San Francisco Chronicle:
The raid on Bryan Carmody once again shows how little respect many politicians, police, and officials have for independent media they cannot control — I've spent more time this week thinking about Bryan Carmody than I would like. — Carmody is a freelance video journalist who obtained …
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Michael Barba / The San Francisco Examiner:
Two judges who OK'ed a police raid on Bryan Carmody knew of his media role, a city supervisor says, a key issue under a California law protecting media sources — Two judges authorized police raids on the home and office of a freelance journalist last week despite knowing that the search warrants …
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Google says it will begin featuring ads on the homepage of its mobile website later this year, amid tough questions around growth — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Whether you are Googling on the couch, fiddling with Maps in the car or swiping through the Discover feed on the toilet …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Forbes Media's content solutions now account for 40% of its direct revenue, since merging its content studio with its research arm late last year — Publishers that sought to diversify into new lines of business are now trying to figure out how to fit those operations back together to deepen their relationships with advertisers.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
A 14-year-old girl with 800,000 YouTube followers is sharing far-right content, highlighting how the platform can push kids to extremism as they build audiences — “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
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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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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A close examination of the Mueller report's media citations, and some lessons for media in the report — This is the first of two posts examining the media dimensions of the Mueller report. — More than three weeks after the release of the report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …
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BBC:
Wikimedia says all language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China since late April; previously, China only blocked the Chinese language version — All language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in mainland China since April, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.
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