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John Shiffman / Reuters:
Review of court records details AT&T's role in creating and funding OANN; 90% of OANN's revenue comes from contracts with DirecTV and other AT&T services — As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump.
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Inside Disney's CEO transition, as Bob Iger lingers while successor Bob Chapek provokes anxiety due to his lack of creative background and data-driven approach — Eighteen months into media's most consequential transition, Disney's respected ex-CEO lingers while successor Bob Chapek provokes creative anxiety …
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Case study: the collapse of one Iowa newspaper, replaced by community Facebook groups full of rumors and angry takes on national political news — The grain elevator exploded on a cool April morning in 1987, six years before I was born. My father was testing a clay sample in a lab two miles away when suddenly the dial jumped.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Snap expands Snapchat creator monetization programs, including Spotlight Challenges, which pays $25K+ to creators using specific sounds, topics, or AR lenses — Snap is rolling out new ways for Snapchat creators to make money on the app — part of the company's efforts to keep …
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Snap Inc., Billboard, ScreenRant, TechCrunch, Snap Newsroom, Adweek, Ad Age, The Verge, Tubefilter and Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Daily Mail Online ran a lawyer's full tweet thread as a sidebar to another story, then after he complained, put the tweets into the main story and paid him — On Tuesday Adam Wagner, a British human rights lawyer and law professor, wrote a tweet thread in response to a BBC article …
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Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle:
Twitch acknowledges a “breach” after a 4chan user leaks its source code, creator payouts from 2019-2021, proprietary SDKs, internal AWS services, and more — SOURCE CODES AND USER PAYOUTS AMONG THE DATA RELEASED IN A 128GB TORRENT — An anonymous hacker claims to have leaked …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify says it will let Anchor podcast creators in the US apply to join its programmatic ad marketplace Spotify Audience Network — Earlier this year, Spotify introduced its new audio advertising marketplace, the Spotify Audience Network, which allows advertisers to reach audiences across …
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Adweek, Spotify and @ashleyrcarman
Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired UK:
How the ICIJ coordinated 150 different media outlets in 117 countries to process 2.94TB of leaked data and report on The Pandora Papers — The Pandora Papers leak includes a colossal 2.94 terabytes of data. Unravelling the contents was no easy task — The Pandora Papers have rocked the world.
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@stokel, Arms Watch, The Intercept, CNN and CoinDesk
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Sources: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 are developing a joint streaming service to defend against US tech giants and a planned UK overhaul of TV laws — - BBC and rivals devise common platform to ensure prominence — HBO Max, Sky smart-TV launch turn up heat on European media
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@mattnavarra
Ethan Millman / Rolling Stone:
Tina Turner sells her music rights and more to BMG, which calls the deal its single largest artist acquisition yet; Warner Music will remain her record company — The company calls the Turner deal — which includes her name, image and likeness — its single largest artist acquisition ever
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Variety, @achildof2worlds, @tedgioia, @millmanethan, @exavierpope, @marcusjdl, @rdotspoon, @thecosby, The Wrap and Billboard
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube, which is a top destination for podcast listeners of some shows, is looking to hire its first executive to oversee its podcasting business — The video site is looking for someone to manage the growing number of podcasts uploaded every day
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Podcast Movement and insideradio.com
The New York Times Company:
Blake Hounshell, currently a Politico managing editor, will join NYT to build a team for its On Politics newsletter — Blake, who spent the last eight years in a series of important roles at Politico, is joining us to help re-engineer and build a new team for On Politics, already one of the biggest and best newsletters of its kind.
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Talking Biz News, @suellentrop, @blakehounshell, @rubycramer, @raju, @davidmwessel, @sbg1, @kimseverson and @peterbakernyt
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