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Washington Post:
WH will not sign Christchurch Call to Action, a commitment by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns — The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
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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 …
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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 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
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Ryan Joe / AdExchanger:
AT&T's Xandr unveils Community, a video ad marketplace for WarnerMedia and other publishers to sell ads across all channels: mobile, desktop, OTT, and linear — AT&T's ad unit Xandr on Tuesday unveiled a publisher network called Community, which lets advertisers use Xandr data …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Analysis shows that language in newspapers has remained fairly steady since 2000 while TV news has gotten more emotional, conversational, and argumentative — A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news …
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RAND, American Press Institute, @niemanlab, @jonathansblake, @adriana_lacy and @hunterschwarz
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
In SEC filing, Salon says it has reached a deal to be sold for $5M following CEO's departure last week; if the sale is not completed, it may file for bankruptcy — Salon Media Group, a one-time digital darling, has fallen on hard times. It lost its CEO of the past three years last week …
Bob Fernandez / Philly.com:
As it seeks a buyer, bankrupt Reading Eagle newspaper in Reading, PA, warns it may have to lay off all 221 employees in June — With a bid deadline looming on Wednesday, the Reading Eagle has alerted more than 200 employees of the threat of massive layoffs.
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@mktwgoldstein, @rw_briggs, @anna_orso and Press Association
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Condé Nast sells Brides magazine to IAC's Dotdash for an undisclosed amount; Dotdash plans to scrap the print version and redesign Brides.com — The courting of Brides magazine had none of the meet-cutes and grand gestures often described in its glossy pages.
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WWD, Variety, @lindysegal and Digital TV Europe
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
One year into the BBC's 50:50 challenge for on-air gender diversity, 74% of the original participating programs have reached a 50:50 gender split — Three-quarters of BBC news, current affairs and topical programming teams that have been monitoring their gender diversity for the past year have reached a 50:50 on-air gender split.
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BBC, TVNewser, @jake_hanrahan, @mufeedahb, @bbcnews and The Drum
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitter launches tool for searches about vaccines directing users to vaccines.org, says it will extend tool to other health-related search terms in the future — The platform will roll the tool out to cover other health terms in the future — If you search for tweets related to vaccines as of Friday …
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@brianstelter, TechCrunch, VICE, @noupside, Mashable, The Week and Engadget
Tiffini Theisen / Orlando Sentinel:
After Trump promises hurricane relief, 3 Florida radio stations owned by Gulf Coast Media vow to air snippets of Trump speeches every hour until 2020 election — Two days after President Trump rallied his base in Florida's Panhandle, vowing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid …
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Mediaite, Newser and New York Post
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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