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Alex Bhattacharji / Los Angeles Magazine:
As Valence Media seeks to soften and kill coverage of controversial subjects, THR is fighting to maintain its reputation for independence and propriety — As its parent company seeks to soften and kill coverage of controversial subjects, ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ is fighting to maintain its journalistic integrity
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@mb_metz, @mikeleepearl, @jpmanga, @mikeleepearl, @megreenwell, @benyt, @highsierraman, @lamag and @lamag
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Disney has raised $11B in debt, according to a Tuesday filing with the SEC — Disney has raised $11 billion dollars in new debt, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). — “The company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the notes …
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Variety, Multichannel News, @alexweprin, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline
Des Moines Register:
Meredith delays its quarterly earnings report to Thursday, citing an “extremely challenging business environment” — Saying it is facing “an extremely challenging business environment” because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Meredith Corp. informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify Kids now allows parents to view kids' listening history and block individual tracks and expands to Germany and Japan — Spotify is expanding the capabilities of its parental controls on its Spotify Kids app, aimed at children ages 3 and up on a parent's Spotify Premium Family plan.
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Spotify Newsletter, more at Techmeme »
Alan Rosenberg / providencejournal.com:
Providence Journal to halt editorials because of hyper-partisanship and because readers think reporters will try to reflect the paper's views in their coverage — Alan Rosenberg Journal Executive Editor alanrosenbergpj — Our opinion pages will instead feature more viewpoints from readers …
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Poynter, @stephgracela, @pennyriordan1 and @mlcalderone
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: advertisers like GM are looking to exercise an option, available since May 1, to cancel up to 50% of their Q3 TV ad spend, an estimated $1B-$1.5B loss — Companies are seeking to take advantage of options that became available May 1 to cancel up to 50% of third-quarter spending
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The Hill, @ashkan, @richlightshed, @asharma, @anthony, @richlightshed and @jbflint
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Interview with SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt about leading ESPN's flagship show at a time when there are no sports — New York (CNN Business)SportsCenter has been ESPN's go-to broadcast for sports highlights, news and analysis since the cable network launched in 1979. But what is SportsCenter without sports?
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@frankpallotta, @spj_tweets, New York Post and Awful Announcing
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Emily Ramshaw says The 19th still plans to launch late this summer despite the pandemic, to explore how women are disproportionately affected by the crisis — Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora had not planned to launch The 19th during a pandemic. Their national nonprofit news site …
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@laurahazardowen, @eramshaw, @jayrosen_nyu, @kerrymflynn, @elanazak, @niemanreports, @lenfestinst, @amzam, bookforum.com and The Idea
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Facebook says it took action on 9.6M pieces of hate speech content in Q1, up by 3.6M, and AI now proactively detects 88.8% of it, up from 80.2% last quarter — Facebook sheds light on its new AI-powered moderation — Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination …
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TechCrunch, The Wrap, Facebook AI, VentureBeat, CNET, About Facebook and About Facebook, more at Techmeme »
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
With Hollywood productions on hold, documentary filmmakers, who don't need film sets, have managed to keep going while adapting to the new reality — Ron Howard has been overseeing a nonfiction film from afar, while other documentarians have gone into the coronavirus epicenter.
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@kylemunson, @jimwindolf and @nicsperling
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on how his life and show have changed during the pandemic, covering the Tara Reade allegations, and more — Before the coronavirus pandemic reshaped media priorities, along with just about everything else, the MSNBC host Chris Hayes was spending …
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@andrewrestuccia, @jbouie, @ichotiner, @ggreenwald, @michaelsocolow and TVNewser
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Trump calls for NBC to fire Chuck Todd after Meet the Press acknowledges “inadvertently and inaccurately” editing a clip of an interview with AG William Barr — President Trump spent much of his Sunday holiday sharing more than 100 tweets and retweets, bouncing between wishing everyone a …
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