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Pew Research Center:
Survey: 69% of US Twitter users get news on the site, of which 70% use it for live news, up from 59% in 2015; 67% have at least some trust in news on Twitter — Seven-in-ten U.S. adult Twitter news consumers have followed breaking news there — Pew Research Center conducted this study …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for both English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles sells for $1.8B, $500M more than projected three months ago, to Hackman Capital and Square Mile — Hackman Capital and Square Mile have winning bid for complex where classic television shows such as ‘Seinfeld’ were shot
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New York Post, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The FTC recently announced plans to crack down on companies, including news publishers, using “dark patterns that trick or trap consumers into subscriptions” — Most U.S. news organizations won't let readers cancel online. The Federal Trade Commission wants that to change.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
A look at the Dotdash and Meredith merger, as some question whether People magazine, with an average print circulation of around 3M, fits in Dotdash's portfolio — Still a hit in print, the weekly chronicle of celebs and ordinary people who make news is set to become the property of a company specializing in informational websites.
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Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NetEase's online music business Cloud Village revives plans for a Hong Kong IPO by the end of 2021, aiming to raise $1B at a $5B-$6B valuation — Cloud Village earlier shelved Hong Kong listing plans during a selloff in Chinese internet stocks — HONG KONG—The online music business …
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Bloomberg
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
More than 100 NYT workers and their supporters protest outside the outlet's Manhattan headquarters, accusing the company of delaying union contract talks — More than 100 New York Times workers and their supporters protested outside The Times's Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, accusing the company of delaying contract talks.
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WWD, @wirecutterunion and @nyguild
Megan Chan / The Keyword:
Google's GNI and Northwestern's Medill School announce The Data-Driven Reporting Project, to award $2M to journalists working on document-based investigations — Investigative journalism has changed drastically over the past decade. Technology is playing a growing and evolving role …
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@smfrogers, @northwesternu, @googlenewsinit and @googlenewsinit
Axios:
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.
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Peter White / Deadline:
Vox Media acquires podcast studio Criminal Productions, producer of Criminal and This Is Love — EXCLUSIVE: Criminal Productions, the rising podcast studio founded by Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, has been acquired by Vox Media. — It is the latest major acquisition in the audio space …
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Diane Haithman / The Wrap:
The California Film Commission says the state's Film & TV Tax Credit Program is expected to generate $2.6B in in-state spending in its first fiscal year — The third iteration of California's Film & TV Tax Credit Program is expected to generate $2.6 billion in production spending across California during …
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Variety
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: ByteDance's gross revenue is on track to rise 60% YoY to $63B in 2021, slightly slower than last year's growth — ByteDance's gross revenue is on track to rise about 60% to 400 billion yuan (about $63 billion) this year, cementing the TikTok owner's position as one of the world's …
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