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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Rachel Maddow, intrigued by streaming and podcasting opportunities, is considering leaving MSNBC when her contract ends early next year — As her contract draws to a close, sources told The Daily Beast, the MSNBC icon has been weighing taking her brand elsewhere.
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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Disney beats expectations in Q3, with net income of $923M on revenue of $17.02B, paid subs for Disney+ at 116M, ESPN+ at 14.9M, and Hulu at 42.8M; stock up ~5% — DIS) reported fiscal third-quarter results Thursday that beat Wall Street's estimates, with user growth at the company's key …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
NYT lawyers mistakenly emailed a document listing strategies to fight a tech union to a union organizer; the paper opted for trying to keep membership under 400 — While locked in a contentious battle over tech staffers unionizing, Times management's counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the union.
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Reuters:
A Philippine court dismisses a libel case against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa; the case is one of several against Ressa, who calls the suits a harassment campaign — A Philippine court has dismissed a libel case against Maria Ressa, a lawyer said on Thursday, one of several lawsuits filed …
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
In “symbolic deportation”, Russia won't renew a BBC journalist's visa that ends in August in retaliation for Britain not issuing visas to Russian journalists — Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation …
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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and The Moscow Times
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Right-wing video platform Rumble is paying some media personalities, including Glenn Greenwald, to post videos to its site with a two-hour exclusivity window — The video site has exploded during the pandemic as a home for anti-vaccine misinformation and conservative complaints about Big Tech censorship
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Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
Profile of former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, who runs Grazia USA, bought OK Magazine's website and Radar Online, and has signed a podcasting deal — Dylan Howard, known for the “catch and kill” deals during the #MeToo reckoning, teams up with an Italian publisher for a publication aimed at the Hamptons crowd.
Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Three Australian publishers say Facebook has used their work on its news service after refusing to negotiate, highlighting possible shortcomings of the law — Three Australian publishers of lifestyle content say Facebook Inc (FB.O) used their articles on its just-launched news service …
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@byronkaye and Breitbart
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times is launching seven subscriber-only opinion newsletters and making 11 other existing newsletters exclusive to subscribers beginning August 16 — The New York Times is rolling out a slew of new, subscriber-only newsletters from news and opinion writers.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen announces it is putting its Media Rating Council accreditation on hiatus as it faces pressure from the TV industry for undercounting viewers — Nielsen said it would move forward without the backing of the media industry's Media Rating Council, the latest eyebrow-raising maneuver …
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Antoinette Siu / The Wrap:
TikTok talent agent Ariadna Jacob sues NYT and reporter Taylor Lorenz for defamation, claiming she lost clients after an August 2020 article about her business — Ariadna Jacob, an agent who represented TikTok stars like Charli D'Amelio and other online Influencers, filed a defamation lawsuit …
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@sharonwaxman, @sharonwaxman, @sharonwaxman and @sharonwaxman
Andrew Deck / Rest of World:
As Substack expands abroad, writers say it needs local payment options and customer service in other languages; some worry about legal support in hostile states — From India to Brazil, Substack is awarding grants and lending journalists editorial resources. How far will that support really go?
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
TVN owner Discovery tells Poland it will take legal action under a US-Poland treaty after Polish lower house passes a bill restricting foreign media ownership — The Polish parliament passed a controversial bill this week that would ban most foreign ownership of national television channels …
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Digital TV Europe, C21Media, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Broadband TV News and Variety
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