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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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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights — Miramax filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for “Pulp Fiction.”
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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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Google partners with PBS Student Report Labs and other journalism organizations to create programs that promote media literacy — Over the past few years, Google has been trying to repair its reputation as a source for disinformation by launching multiple programs, particularly the Google News Initiative.
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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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
US agrees to provide renewable yearlong visas to Chinese journalists, while China lets WSJ, WaPo, and NYT reporters return — The deal tones down a diplomatic confrontation that led Beijing to expel some American reporters during the last year of the Trump administration.
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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 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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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Samba TV, which tracks smart TV viewership across 46M TVs, files for an IPO and reports $82.8M in revenue and a $17.1M net loss in the first nine months of 2021 — Samba TV, which tracks programming and advertising viewing via smart TV data, has filed to go public.
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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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USAGM reports that it reached 394M people in 62 languages each week in 2021, up 42% since 2017, with top audiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine — The 2021 report and audit results demonstrate the Agency's ability to achieve strategic impact by prudently managing resources and nimbly responding to global challenges.
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