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The Daily Beast:
Trump sues NYT, three of its reporters, and his niece, Mary Trump, claiming they hatched a plot to obtain his private records for a story about his tax history — The ex-president claims there was an “insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records.”
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
ViacomCBS bundles Paramount+ and Showtime for a promotional price of $10/month with ads and $13/month without — ViacomCBS has officially begun marketing Paramount+ and Showtime's streaming service as a combined offering, with an initial promotion starting at $10 a month.
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Mark Savage / BBC:
UK government asks its competition watchdog to review Sony, Warner, and Universal Music and weigh YouTube's streaming dominance, amid poor returns for musicians — The UK's major record labels could face an inquiry into whether their practices are distorting the music market.
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Billboard, musically.com, Variety and Financial Times
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Chapek says Disney+ global subscriber growth slowed this quarter, citing production delays and challenges for Latin America's Star Plus launch — Disney Plus global paid subscribers will increase by “low single-digit millions of subscribers” for the quarter ending September 2021, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said.
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Matthew Keys / FierceVideo:
YouTuber Bill Omar Carrasquillo and two others indicted on charges of copyright infringement, wire fraud, and more for allegedly offering pirated streaming TV — A popular YouTube personality and two other individuals are facing criminal charges for allegedly operating a large-scale pirate television service over the Internet.
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@sixfever and @matthewkeyslive
Knight Foundation:
Survey: adults 18 to 34 years old care most about outlets' transparency and fact-checking; older adults care deeply about reputation and “no political slant” — - Differences in citizens' trust in the national media and attitudes about the media's role in democracy vary not just by political partisanship but age as well.
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@knightfdn, @gallupnews and Nieman Lab
Sara Fischer / Axios:
WaPo expands its Zeus Prime ad network, adding Ad Council, Dallas Morning News, and soon Graham Media Group; non-targeted ads will cost $9 per thousand views — The Washington Post on Tuesday launched an ad network as part of its Zeus advertising technology business, executives told Axios.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A history of incoming UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries' clashes with the media, including threatening to nail a reporter's testicles to the floor in 2013 — Nadine Dorries, the UK's new Culture Secretary, has has had some colourful clashes with the media over the last decade.
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@sturdyalex, @mikebutcher and @paullewismoney
Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:
Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn't include music licenses, and Twitch will issue warnings before suspensions — Twitch and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have reached a long-awaited agreement focused on building …
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Engadget, @verge, Tubefilter, @colinstutz, @devolore, @sir_wheatbread, @concordmusicpub, PC Gamer, The Verge, GameSpot, Forbes, Music Business Worldwide, Variety and @runciedan, more at Techmeme »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Business outlet Industry Dive, which expects ~30% profit margins and $80M in revenue in 2021, buys trade pub PharmaVOICE, its fourth acquisition in 18 months — Industry Dive, a Washington, D.C.-based business journalism outlet, is acquiring PharmaVOICE, a trade publication …
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@seangriffey, @joshsternberg, @seangriffey, @sarafischer and Talking Biz News
Panyi Szabolcs / Direkt36:
Photojournalist Dániel Németh is the latest to join the list of Hungarian journalists surveilled using Pegasus spyware, very likely by state actors — Have a good story? Contact us! — On June 24, 2021 in Amalfi, near Naples in Southern Italy, Lő …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
When Politico announced a new feature, Congress Minutes, someone else bought CongressMinutes.com the same day, pointing to rival Punchbowl News — On Monday, Adweek received a tip that a new Politico initiative, Congress Minutes, has been the subject of a mysterious act of cyber sabotage.
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