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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
HBO Max launches without being on Roku and Amazon, the two most popular streaming platforms — The latest new streaming service HBO Max bowed with unlimited access to every episode of “Friends,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Game of Thrones.” But if all you've got is a streaming player from Roku or Amazon, you won't be able to watch.
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
AT&T's incoming CEO John Stankey says WarnerMedia still plans to release a cheaper, ad-supported version of HBO Max early next year
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, his campaign and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Twitter says Roth works on manipulation and bots — “No one person at Twitter is responsible for our policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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Bloomberg:
After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down” — - Attack comes after Twitter fact-checked, labeled Trump tweet — Tech companies have faced criticism from conservatives of bias
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims
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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Apple's acquisition of Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead of a reboot on TV+ signals a strategy shift for the service that had relied on original content — Apple isn't echoing Netflix's strategy, but it's certainly doing something new — Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
To protect a key Boris Johnson aide caught breaking lockdown rules, his government is deploying Trump's “fake news” screeds under a veneer of British gentility — In early April, Matthew Weaver, a reporter at The Guardian in the UK, received a phone call from a source in Durham …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Instagram says it will now split revenue with creators, sharing 55% of the revenue from IGTV ads and badges on Live, starting with 200 partners next week — And purchasable Badges in Instagram Live — For the first time in its history, Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through ads …
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Financial Times:
Rising subscriptions help shield NYT and WSJ from worst of pandemic; NYT CEO: notion that its success is crowding out competition is “very strange defeatism” — Rising subscriptions help shield New York Times and Wall Street Journal from worst of pandemic
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS entertainment and news divisions are going through a round of layoffs, the first on the broadcast side, as part of a restructuring after the Viacom merger — The cuts at the broadcast network come a month after similar actions at the company's cable properties.
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Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
The Information launches a News Summer School, available on Zoom, offering eight free hour-long evening classes in July — Join leaders from across the news business for a free, four-week bootcamp to help you build a career in journalism during these unprecedented times.
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Overview of efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, and others to boost Joe Biden's chances, including funding media via Acronym, which funds Courier Newsroom — Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs, Silicon Valley's new power set, are instrumental …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK's Bauer Radio will fold around 50 local radio stations into a national radio network; local journalist and travel reporter roles are likely to be unaffected — Bauer rebranding will scrap regional identities and replace them with national network — Dozens of towns and cities across England …
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Laura Snapes / The Guardian:
Many UK music magazines have been hit hard by the COVID-19 lockdown, with some like Mixmag and DJ Mag suspending printing and others facing closures — From Q Magazine to smaller free sheets, many publications hit hard by Covid-19 lockdown — As the nation locked down in March …
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