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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Scripps' board members and executives including the CEO are taking 10% to 15% pay cuts with the money saved going to the company's COVID-19 employee relief fund — Top executives and director of the E.W. Scripps Co. are taking voluntary salary and fee reductions as the Coronavirus crisis continues.
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Cincinnati Business Journal and PR Newswire
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
On his SiriusXM show, Chris Cuomo says he doesn't want to spend his time “trafficking in things that I think are ridiculous” regarding his CNN show — Chris Cuomo's coronavirus-induced fever may have subsided but the CNN anchor was red hot on Monday.
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Breitbart, CBS News, Hollywood Reporter, Talking Points Memo, The Kitchen Pundit, @ggreenwald, @gaywonk, @meredithshiner, @ggreenwald, @tareq_haddad and Mediaite
@latguild:
LA Times Guild says LAT plans furloughs up to 16 weeks for biz-side workers, with 401K contributions suspended for non-union staff, pay cuts for some managers — The @latimes has just announced furloughs and other pay cuts for non-union employees. Our statement: https://twitter.com/...
Ty Pendlebury / CNET:
Sling TV debuts Happy Hour Across America, which lets new users stream its 50+ channel Sling Blue package for free from 5pm ET to midnight — Live TV streaming service Sling TV has been rolling out a bunch of promotions in response to coronavirus stay-at-home orders nationwide, and the newest one could be its best yet.
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Variety, The Streamable, Mashable and Fortune
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Investigation finds a decade-long health disinformation campaign by Russia, using social media and news outlets like RT, to sow confusion and hurt institutions — A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions …
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@yaffaesque, Metaviews, @ballouxfrancois, Never Just Science, @nytscience, @kenroth, @nytimes, @acgrayling, @politidope, @rasmus_kleis, Mother Jones, Boing Boing and Breitbart
Reuters:
Iraq suspends Reuters' license for 3 months and orders it to apologize, after it published a story saying there were more COVID-19 cases than the official tally — LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq has suspended the licence of the Reuters news agency after it published a story saying the number …
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@sanamf24
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Universal says Trolls World Tour had the biggest opening day and weekend for a digital title, generating around ten times what the next largest VOD release had — Universal announced Monday that “Trolls World Tour,” a sequel to 2016's animated musical, landed the biggest debut for a digital release.
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Fast Company, The Ringer, /Film, @ashleyesqueda, @mediamuseum, @fb_bmb, @laviejoem, @chrisvfeil, @matthewacherry, Vanity Fair, Deadline and The A.V. Club
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon Media is giving away $10M in digital ad inventory to groups responding to the COVID-19, with a focus on mental health, as well as to the CDC and WHO — Telco's digital media division also launches Yahoo Life wellbeing-focused vertical — Verizon Media is giving away $10 million …
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Multichannel News
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
The comic book industry has been hit hard by COVID-19 as stores close and the distribution of new titles grinds to a halt, creating uncertainty about the future — A key distributor has halted deliveries and shops are shuttered, putting the entire industry in jeopardy: “A lot of people are going to lose their livelihoods.”
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@thecruzader, @peterbakernyt, @ademillo, Melville House Books and IndieWire
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg launches Screentime, an entertainment vertical, around four pillars: TV and movies, music and podcasting, esports and video games, and influencers — Bloomberg is launching a new entertainment-focused vertical called “Screentime,” the company will announce on Tuesday.
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MediaPost, Bloomberg and Talking Biz News
Megan Graham / CNBC:
Roku withdraws 2020 financial outlook, expects higher Q1 revenue after Q1 streaming hours grew 49% YoY and net users rose to an estimated 39.8M, up 3M from Dec. — - Roku said Monday that it was withdrawing its full-year 2020 financial outlook due to economic uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Streamable, Multichannel News, Forbes, Deadline and The Week, more at Techmeme »
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
SCOTUS plans to provide a live audio feed of the arguments it will hear by telephone in May to media and to the public, a first — For the first time, the nation's highest court will open a live audio feed as it hears arguments in 10 sets of cases. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced …
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@kodykinsley, @riogringa, @erikwemple, CNN, The Hill, Supreme Court …, The Wrap, The Verge and Politico