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8:35 AM ET, April 6, 2022

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar is leaving on April 8; sources: Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav and some Discovery executives plan to take over within a week  —  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: WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group CEO Ann Sarnoff will leave the company as soon as this week as WarnerMedia completes its merger with Discovery  —  LOS ANGELES — Ann Sarnoff, the chief executive of the WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, will leave the company …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
LinkedIn plans to add 80 news roles in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, 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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Variety:
In the last year, at least sixteen women of color have left the BBC's news and D&I departments, due to factors including a glass ceiling and racism  —  At least 15 women of color have left the BBC in the last year saying they are “exhausted” from fighting a system that …
Pew Research Center:
Study: the number of statehouse reporters is up 11% since 2014 to 1,761, of which 20% work for nonprofits, up from 6% in 2014, and 48% cover capitols full time  —  As newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void  —  As newspapers employ fewer …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
iHeartMedia purchases the rights to roughly a dozen NFTs to create the Non-Fun Podcast Network based around characters and voices from prominent NFT collections  —  iHeartMedia, the holding company of iHeartRadio, is pouring several hundred thousand dollars into purchasing the rights to roughly …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter begins “drastically” reducing the reach of Russian government accounts and will remove tweets from government-affiliated accounts with prisoners of war  —  It'll ‘ask government or state-affiliated media accounts’ to take down pictures featuring prisoners of war
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Jami Floyd, the director of New York Public Radio's Race & Justice Unit and the author of 45 WNYC and Gothamist articles retracted for plagiarism, resigns  —  WNYC staffer Jami Floyd authored 45 articles that were removed from wnyc.org and Gothamist websites last week …
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Edo, a TV ad measurement service co-founded by actor Edward Norton, raises $80M from Shamrock Capital at a $200M+ pre-money valuation  —  Company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton, wants to compete with Nielsen by helping advertisers see whether consumers take action after seeing a commercial
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
An Iran court indicts Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi on a claim he stole the idea for his film, A Hero, from a documentary by one of his former students  —  An Iran court found evidence the celebrated filmmaker based his new movie on a documentary made by one of his film students.
 
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Kevin Marks:
Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users deleted their tweets
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple confirms it has been piloting a feature, launching “very soon”, that lets developers like Disney+ automatically charge users for subscription price hikes
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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
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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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

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

 
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