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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: rival strategies for CNN+, combined with unexpected events like Jeff Zucker's resignation and the Discovery merger, fueled the service's rapid demise — Chris Licht wasn't supposed to start his new job as CNN's chief until May. — But on Thursday he found himself addressing …
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Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondent's Club scraps the Human Rights Press Awards days before it was due to announce the winners, citing national security law fears — Foreign Correspondent's Club's decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix staff morale is sagging amid its cratering stock price, subscriber losses, and an engineering restructuring to create levels, such as “junior” — As Netflix shares plunge to their lowest point in five years, the company risks losing its most valuable resource: its star employees.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Journalists from The Guardian, FT, and Daily Mirror were excluded from the UK Home Secretary's trip to Rwanda, where she signed a controversial immigration deal — Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel's trip to Rwanda this month.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Joe Kahn's openness to criticism can help The New York Times, which hasn't had an ombudsman since 2017, rethink its approach to politics and government coverage — I know him. Here's why I think he might be the man for this perilous moment. — Unlike The Washington Post …
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Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times:
Analysis: Bloomberg Terminal had a 32.5% share of market data industry in 2021, with its revenue up 5.2% to $11.6B; Refinitiv had a 19.7% share — MS-DOS for finance nerds refuses to die. — Like vampires, Freddy Krueger and goldbugs posting dual axis charts of US M2 overlaid with the S&P 500 on Twitter …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Roku partners with Analytic Partners, Ipsos, IRI, and Nielsen to provide more ad data for marketing mix modeling and help it better compete with traditional TV — To catalyze the shift of TV ad dollars to streaming will require not only proof of streaming's performance but evidence of what makes it perform.
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Joy Press / Vanity Fair:
Streamers are acting like TV networks, pulling back on edgy content and seeking “elevated broadcasts”, like sitcoms, under financial pressure and competition — Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution.
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Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 — Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
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Leon Gettler / The Conversation:
Investigation: in the past two years, regional Australia saw 100+ out of 435 newspapers cease printing, comprising 68% of the country's 182 news “contractions” — Australia's regional news outlets are dying a not-so-slow death, and COVID-19 has accelerated their decline.
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill revoking Disney's special tax status, effective as of June 2023, after a clash over the state's “Don't Say Gay” law — Gov. Ron DeSantis's move to revoke the company's special tax status in Florida showed how combative his party …
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