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Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:
Behind the online battle between notable tech figures including a16z partners and Balaji Srinivasan, and the journalists who tweet and report on the industry — Late last fall, the New York Times was preparing a bombshell article about Coinbase, a financial exchange that had become …
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TikTok launches #FactCheckYourFeed, a media literacy campaign with creators and public figures discussing recognizing fake news, balanced news diets, and more — TikTok has always been a place that inspires creativity and brings joy. Every day we are blown away by the inspirational …
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Amazon signs multi-year deal with the WNBA giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 regular season games and the Commissioner's Cup game — Amazon and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced a multi-year agreement giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights …
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WNBA.com, @caiti326, @ramonashelburne, The Verge, Engadget, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Discord announces Stage Discovery, a tool to help people find communities through live audio events, and says it will soon test paid, ticketed audio events — If you're new to Discord, you might be thrown off by the lack of an endless feed peppered with ads.
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog:
Substack acquires People & Company, which focuses on community building, to expand its support infrastructure for writers, including workshops and legal support — In 2014, journalist Anna Codrea-Rado, publisher of Lance, pitched a story to editors at a major news outlet …
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@substackinc, @hamishmckenzie, @hamishmckenzie, @zebriez, @hamishmckenzie and Writers' Library
CNBC:
Disney misses on subscriber estimates for Disney+, reaching 103.6M subscribers, below the expected 109M; revenue was $15.61B vs. $15.87B expected, down 13% YoY — - Disney reported second quarter results Thursday, posting lower-than-expected revenue and subscriber counts for its streaming service.
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Variety, @techjournalist, @cnbcnow, @xpangler and The Walt Disney Company
Lanre Bakare / The Guardian:
UK's Channel 4, commercially funded but owned by the government, could be privatized in the next three years, the British culture secretary says — Culture secretary repeats view that Tory sell-off of public broadcaster before next election is not ‘ruled out’
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku will debut Roku Originals on the Roku Channel on May 20, starting with 30 Quibi shows — Quibi is coming back from the dead next week... sort of. — On May 20, Roku will debut the first batch of Roku Originals — a collection of 30 shows originally produced for Quibi …
John General / CNN:
Profile of DeShuna Spencer, who founded the streaming service kweliTV in 2015 to focus on Black stories; kweliTV now has 43,000 users despite lack of VC funding — New York (CNN Business)When DeShuna Spencer sat in front of her TV to scroll through her options, she noticed a glaring problem …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Slate launches an audiobook store, partnering with Penguin-Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Hachette, with titles accessible via podcast apps — Including from Penguin-Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins — Slate is getting into the audiobooks business.
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Hot Pod News, Podcast Movement and Slate
Paul Cheung / Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation announces $3M initiative to help local news outlets expand AI use; it will initially fund four projects to address knowledge and skill gaps — A new, $3 million Knight initiative will help local news organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to drive success.
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@partnershipai, @pcheung630, @knightfdn, @browninstitute and @dankennedy_nu
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Vizio says Q1 profits from its Platform+ business, which sells viewer data and ad space, hit $38.4M, up 152% YoY; profit from its hardware division was $48.2M — Vizio is finally a public company, after its — 2015 plan for an IPO was derailed during a messy acquisition attempt from LeEco that
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@kylerankin, @karlbode, @benlikestocode, @samfbiddle, @joshbloch and Ars Technica
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