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12:45 AM ET, April 20, 2022

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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Netflix reports losing 200K subscribers in Q1, vs. 2.5M net additions est., and revenue of $7.87B, vs. $7.95B est.; the stock is down 25%+ after hours  —  Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected decline in first-quarter net subscribers as the company navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Reed Hastings says Netflix plans to offer cheaper, ad-supported plans and that Netflix will examine what those plans will look like “over the next year or two”  —  Co-CEO Reed Hastings revealed the move on an earnings call after the streaming giant disclosed it lost 200,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix estimates that its users are sharing passwords with 100M+ non-paying households globally, including 30M+ in the US and Canada, in violation of its rules  —  There's a whole lot of password-sharing going on across Netflix's customer base — and the streaming giant is eager to get money from the freeloading masses.
New York Times:
The New York Times Managing Editor Joe Kahn will succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor, starting in June; Baquet “will remain to lead an exciting new venture”  —  Mr. Kahn, 57, will take over a newsroom undergoing enormous change.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Joe Kahn, whose focus on China shaped his career, during which he won two Pulitzers and helped turn The New York Times into a 24-hour operation  —  Joe Kahn, the next executive editor of The New York Times, has had a steady rise in journalism.  It began with a decision to turn his focus to China.
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
A look at the woman behind Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account that reposts videos along with incendiary framing and is shaping LGBTQ+ right-wing media coverage  —  A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping public discourse
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery suspended external CNN+ marketing and laid off CNN CFO Brad Ferrer, replaced by Discovery's CFO for streaming and international  —  Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN's longtime chief financial officer …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon, Disney, Reliance, Sony, Zee, and Dream11 are vying for the broadcast rights to the cricket Indian Premier League, expected to be worth $5B+  —  Amazon.com Inc., The Walt Disney Co. and billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd. are among those that have signaled …
Discussion: @venkatananth
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner says 2021 was the company's most profitable year in two decades, due to a renewed investment in live events and a focus on creators  —  Rolling Stone will debut its inaugural “Creators” issue Tuesday, featuring the first in-depth profile of YouTube star MrBeast.
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Redacción Regional, a collaborative of four Central American newsrooms covering the rise of authoritarianism, corruption, and militarism in the region  —  In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele hijacked the political party, Nuevas Ideas, which was formed by members of the Salvadoran diaspora to help him get elected.
Discussion: @niemanlab and @hanaatameez
LSM:
Q&A with the chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe, launched as a parallel operation to Russia's Novaya Gazeta, which suspended work due to Russian censorship  —  One of the last independent publishers which suspended its activities in Russia was the influential newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Discussion: @lsm_eng
 
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Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Entertainment Weekly Editor in Chief Mary Margaret is leaving and will be replaced by Executive Editor Patrick Gomez, who will take the title of general manager
Discussion: The Wrap
Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky:
[Thread] Joshua Topolsky, The Outline's founder and BDG's chief content officer for culture and innovation, leaves to start the “I've Seen the Future” podcast
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Spotify says it may restrict and limit the reach of content that touches on sensitive topics but does not cross the threshold of removal in its Platform Rules
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline:
Netflix partners with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture to provide a one-time, $250,000 grant to support five Arab female film producers and directors
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
A US appeals court reaffirms that scraping publicly accessible content on the internet is legal, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against rival Hiq Labs
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Netflix debuts the Exploding Kittens animated comedy series and a game for Android and iOS, launching a series and a game across a single IP for the first time
Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal:
French music streaming service Deezer plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a €1.05B valuation and says it has 9.6M subscribers and had €400M in 2021 revenue
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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