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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Spotify Greenroom, a new app that allows Spotify users worldwide to join or host live audio rooms, and turn those conversations into podcasts — In March, Spotify announced it was acquiring the company behind the sports-focused audio app Locker Room to help speed its entry into the live audio market.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Biden apologizes for snapping at CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at his news conference in Geneva when she asked why he's confident Putin's behavior would change — President Joe Biden offered his regret for losing his temper with CNN's Kaitlan Collins during his news conference in Geneva.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
In an email to creators, Facebook says it will launch its podcast platform on June 22; podcasters can link up RSS feeds and decide if users can clip shows — Along with podcast clips — Facebook is planning to start rolling out its podcast product next week, on June 22nd, and, eventually …
Jasper Jolly / The Guardian:
GB News, which launched in the UK with a mission to produce “anti-woke” US-style news content, faces an advertiser backlash as Ikea and Nivea pull their ads — Ikea, Grolsch and Kopparberg have suspended adverts due to station's perceived conflict with their values
Politico:
Biden's administration has granted The 19th, which launched last year and has fewer than 30 employees, more access than many larger and established outlets — With help from Allie Bice and Daniel Payne — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.
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@eramshaw, @tiffanydcross, @eramshaw, @joyannreid, @jmsummers and New York Times
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is suing a branch of the IAB and others over real-time bidding, calling the data shared “the world's largest data breach” — The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is suing a branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) …
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN announces Vault by CNN, a collection of NFTs it will sell of key historical events from its archives, and says the service will launch in late June — The WarnerMedia-owned cable news channel is branching into the burgeoning NFT space with a new offering it is calling the “Vault by CNN.”
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT's oral history of Pentagon Papers includes an interview with researcher Linda Amster, whose name was left out of credits, allegedly due to risk of prison — Linda Amster says that her husband bore the “brunt” of her outrage when she looked at her copy of the New York Times on Sunday, June 13, 1971.
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@janhoffmannyt, @paulwilczynski, @jswatz, bookforum.com and @gadflymovie
John Eligon / New York Times:
Zimbabwe releases a local reporter working for NYT after he spent three weeks in jail, accused of improperly helping two NYT journalists enter the country — The government said that it would not oppose bail for Jeffrey Moyo, a freelance journalist in the capital, Harare …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sony Music acquires Somethin' Else, one of the UK's largest independent podcast and audio producers, and forms a global podcast division — Sony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin' Else, which touts itself as the U.K.'s largest independent podcast and audio producer …
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Music Business Worldwide, The Guardian, musically.com and Digital Music News
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
USC study found 19.8% of music executives in the US are from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, including 7.5% who were Black; 35.3% were women — The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examined 4,060 executives at six types of companies, and found 19.8 percent were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
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@nytimesmusic, @musically, @michellemanafy, @drsheila, @nytimes, @diverserep, musically.com and Los Angeles Times
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
Examining the commercialization of ideas and interactions via newsletters, NFTs, and tip jars, where money empowers but reduces expression to mere commerce — Back in 2011, when Twitter was young, the artist and musician Leon Chang made a joke that you might remember even if you didn't see it …
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