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9:15 PM ET, April 5, 2022

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar is leaving the company; sources: incoming Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav and some Discovery execs are expected to take over  —  Executive leaves as Discovery prepares to take over company; CEO shook up entertainment industry during his stint
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: Ann Sarnoff, head of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, will leave the company as soon as this week as WarnerMedia nears its merger with Discovery  —  LOS ANGELES — Ann Sarnoff, the chief executive of the WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, will leave the company …
Pew Research Center:
Study: the number of statehouse reporters has risen 11% since 2014 to 1,761, of which 20% work for nonprofits, up from 6% in 2014; 48% cover capitols full time  —  As newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void  —  As newspapers employ fewer …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
LinkedIn says it is adding 80 editorial roles around the world, an expansion that will bring its total number of editors to nearly 200  —  Linkedin is tripling the number of editors it employs in the UK as part of wider growth that will see it employ nearly 200 journalists worldwide.
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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Canadian government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia  —  Bill demands that companies like Google and Facebook pay news businesses to use their content  —  The federal Liberal government …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple confirms that it has been piloting a feature with Disney+ that would let developers automatically charge users when subscription prices rise  —  Apple may be changing how iOS subscriptions operate when price increases are involved.  Recently, some developers noticed that the streaming service Disney …
Julia Angwin / The Markup:
Q&A with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa on the impact of technology on information ecosystems, funding independent media in the Global South, and more  —  Journalists are under attack around the world.  Last year, the number of journalists who were jailed for their work hit …
Lynette Rice / Deadline:
DailyMailTV, a daily TV news magazine that launched in 2017 and featured top stories from DailyMail.com, will end its run this summer  —  It's official: DailyMailTV, the syndicated show from Stage 29 Productions and syndicated by CBS Media Ventures, is wrapping up this summer.
Discussion: @pressgazette
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Plex updates its app with universal search across users' streaming services, a watchlist, and other discovery features; the company says it has 13M MAUs  —  Plex has an audacious plan to become the daily go-to app for everyone's streaming needs: The media center app rolled out new universal search …
 
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Nielsen: the 2022 Grammy Awards drew 8.93M total viewers, up 1.4% from 2021's record low but down 50% from the 18.8M that watched the January 2020 telecast
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
The UK government decides to put Channel 4 up for sale; reports say the goal is to sell Channel 4 by the UK general election in May 2024 for at least £1B
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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