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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6 — The Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain — Twitter's acquisition spree continues today with Scroll …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Scroll's 13-person team will work on integrating the product into a Twitter subscription service; a Twitter team hopes to build the best of Nuzzel into Twitter — But we have bad news. The acquisition means that the handy news aggregator Nuzzel will be shut down.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter opens Spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with 600+ followers and will allow creators to co-host and sell tickets to live events on Spaces — Twitter Spaces, the company's new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more broadly. The company announced today it's making Twitter …
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Politico:
Trump launches a website ahead of the Oversight Board decision on letting him back on Facebook; the site was teased as an alternative to social media platforms — Former President Donald Trump has launched a new online presence that can get his message out to followers …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The recent corrections on Giuliani reporting, where NYT and NBC News confirmed WaPo's incorrect report, suggest some outlets place too much faith in their peers — The headline on The Post's exclusive on Rudolph W. Giuliani was unequivocal: “FBI warned Giuliani, key Trump ally in Senate …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube announces new series with Will Smith, Alicia Keys, and other big names as it emphasizes its large reach during an event for potential advertisers — YouTube has again turned to big-name entertainment personalities to anchor its latest slate of ad-supported originals.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and once a frequent target of Trump's ire, will become host of the PBS show Washington Week — She succeeds Robert Costa at a program best known as the longtime home of the anchor Gwen Ifill.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
NPR podcasts are helping diversify its audience in terms of race and of age, generating the largest chunk of corporate sponsorship, and enabling experimentation — A cabdriver in Tehran helped Ramtin Arablouei crystallize the idea. — “People in the West, they don't remember anything,” …
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@lindaholmes, @bobbyallyn, @ramtinarablouei, @donvictorramos, @npraudie, @bethfertig, @jessethorn, @doualyx, @samsanders, @simonowens, @phillatzman, @elaheizadi and Podcast Movement
Jane Lee / Reuters:
Kajabi, which helps people monetize expertise through websites, online classes, newsletters, and podcasts, raises $550M led by Tiger Global at a $2B+ valuation — Kajabi, an e-commerce platform that serves knowledge-based businesses, said on Tuesday it raised $550 million in its latest round …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bright, a live video platform built on top of Zoom, launches with celeb partners to let fans engage in ticketed video sessions with creators, actors, musicians — What if you could Zoom with your favorite creator and ask them questions? That's the promise of Bright, the new live video …
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Deadline, Rolling Stone, Variety, Tubefilter and Forbes
Reuters:
Thomson Reuters beat Q1 estimates, with total sales up 4% to $1.58B and overall profit rising by a third to $387M; Reuters News grew sales by 2% to $160M — Thomson Reuters exceeded first quarter revenue and operating profit estimates on Tuesday, helped by gains in its three main divisions …
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Patrick Sisson / Bloomberg:
How Albuquerque became Netflix's North American production hub, as tax incentives spur the company to invest in infrastructure to hedge against unpredictability — New Mexico spent millions in corporate incentives to bring a massive Netflix production hub to a struggling suburban development outside its largest city.
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