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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
News Corp has shut down its news aggregation service Knewz after just 18 months, citing a lack of profits — News Corp shuttered its the aggregation site Knewz on Friday, just 18 months after its launch. Users who navigated to the site found an announcement declaring, “Knewz is no more.”
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix will benefit from Biden's EO as net neutrality resurfaces and competitors' mergers face scrutiny, such as the Amazon-MGM and WarnerMedia-Discovery deals — The streaming giant should welcome — even celebrate — the White House's efforts to promote competition. Why? Look closely.
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Josh Sisco / The Information:
Sources: the FTC has opened an in-depth investigation into Amazon's purchase of MGM — Any hopes that Amazon had of completing its $8.5 billion purchase of movie and TV studio MGM anytime soon may have just gone out the window. — The Federal Trade Commission on Friday opened …
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Apple has had discussions with NFL execs to buy streaming rights for Sunday Ticket games, which currently air on DirecTV — Apple has expressed interest in the streaming rights for a package of National Football League games the NFL is now auctioning, said people familiar with the situation …
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Sources: a BBC board member with close government ties stalled the hiring of ex-HuffPost UK EIC Jess Brammar to oversee news channels, on political grounds — Sir Robbie Gibb concerned that preferred candidate would damage relations with government — BBC News is facing a test …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
G/O Media's editorial head Jim Rich has left the company, sources say after clashes with other executives at the company — GONE — G/O Media's top editorial employee has left the company following internal clashes with other higher-ups at the company, according to multiple sources with knowledge.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Industries with digital presences, from Walgreens to Home Depot, are developing ad revenue lines, following in the footsteps of media and tech giants — Now that the ad market is booming again, all sorts of businesses are doubling down on their investments selling ad space.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job: in industry survey, 86% of station managers said they made security changes in the past year — TV reporter Dillon Collier went to cover the aftermath of a house fire in a San Antonio neighborhood Monday morning. A routine story, he thought.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sources: NYT international picture editor David Furst was sometimes a “cruel bully” who required personal loyalty, often with bad consequences for freelancers — In the mid-2010s, freelance photojournalist Andrea Bruce was having difficulties with her assignments for the New York Times.
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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
Juul paid $51K to have the American Journal of Health Behavior devote an entire issue to 11 Juul-funded studies, including a fee to make the issue open access — The company faces declining sales and thousands of lawsuits claiming it knowingly sold its trendy vaping products to minors.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix hires former Apple executive N'Jeri Eaton to oversee podcasting; Eaton, who previously worked for NPR, will be part of the editorial and publishing team — Netflix Inc. has hired former Apple Inc. executive N'Jeri Eaton to oversee its podcasting business, a sign of the video streaming giant's growing ambitions in audio.
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Samsung quietly launched its TV Plus streaming service on the web in May and has added to its mobile app the ability to cast videos to devices via Chromecast — Samsung is expanding its ad-supported streaming efforts: The company quietly launched its TV Plus streaming service on the web in recent weeks …
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