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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Mobile payments company Square is buying a “significant majority” stake in music streamer Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z and others bought Tidal in 2015 for $56M — What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer? Perhaps only Beyoncé knows.
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NYT's David Brooks draws a salary for work on an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook, Jeff Bezos' father, and others, without disclosure in his columns — New York Times columnist David Brooks is drawing a second salary for his work on an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook …
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CNBC:
Sources: Amazon is in talks with the NFL to pay about $1B to be the exclusive producer of Thursday games starting in 2023 — - Amazon is open to producing all Thursday night NFL games for its Prime Video streaming platform. — Any such deal would kick off no sooner than 2023 and might also include the NFL Network.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon might carry “a significant number” of Thursday night NFL games exclusively on Prime Video, with only teams' local markets also showing games
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Hannah Stonebraker / The Impact Architects:
Knight Foundation and others commission a framework to assess the health of local news systems, find opportunities for strengthening it, and measure progress — Over the past year, with the support of Democracy Fund, the Google News Initiative, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation …
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will lift the suspension on Trump's account when it determines “that the risk of violence has decreased” — - YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday that the platform will lift the suspension on former President Donald Trump's account once the risk of violence declines.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Podcast Academy announces nominees for its first annual awards show, the Ambies, originally called the Golden Mics, to be livestreamed May 16 — The Podcast Academy, an industry association looking to establish the premiere awards program for the fast-growing world of podcasts, announced nominees for the first Ambies awards.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Ampere: in 2020, for the first time since 2009, there were fewer new scripted US shows than the year prior because of the pandemic; 532 shows premiered in 2019 — Where's “Succession”? “Atlanta”? After the number of scripted shows fell for the first time in a decade …
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@koblin, @thatrebecca and @jrboh
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Antenna: in Jan. US consumers subscribed to 1.5 streaming services; Netflix had the highest retention rate and its users were least likely to have another sub — Three charts that explain the streaming wars. — Paramount+, the latest entrant in the streaming wars, launches today …
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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Gannett says it has reached a deal with Snap to offer Snapchat ads to its more than 100K local business clients — Gannett said Thursday it has reached a deal with the owner of Snapchat to sell advertisements on the social messaging app. — Gannett, which owns USA TODAY and more than 250 …
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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Sources: Microsoft president Brad Smith will testify before a House antitrust subcommittee hearing next Friday about tech antitrust and the news media — Microsoft president Brad Smith will testify before a House antitrust subcommittee hearing next Friday about tech antitrust and the news media …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Netflix plans to release 41 Indian films and shows this year, spending three times more on the Indian catalog this year than the past two years combined — Netflix said on Wednesday it will roll out 41 Indian films and shows this year, its biggest annual roster of Indian content to date …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sinclair Broadcast Group says it will cut its workforce by about 5%, which would affect about 460 people across the company, citing the impact of the pandemic — (CNN Business)Citing the coronavirus pandemic, the Sinclair Broadcast Group said on Wednesday that it will reduce its workforce …
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