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Los Angeles County's sheriff launches a criminal leak probe into journalist Alene Tchekmedyian for revealing a cover-up of a deputy kneeling on an inmate's head — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas; it's unclear if this will continue under Musk — For all the talk of how Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter to make it more supportive of free speech, there remain a ton of questions about what it will actually mean in practice.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval — - Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
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Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn as Kahn succeeds Baquet as The New York Times' executive editor, on growing subscriptions, objectivity and democracy, and more — · Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What's next for the New York Times? — Last week, after years of public speculation on the matter …
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The New York Times Company:
Dean Baquet will lead a new one-year local investigative journalism fellowship at The New York Times, which will offer free co-publication to local news outlets — The New York Times announces a new fellowship for investigative journalism focused on the state and local level.
Variety:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery cuts development of new TBS and TNT scripted shows; it's unclear what will happen to the current slate of scripted programming — TNT and TBS are moving out of the scripted game under new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which CEO David Zaslav has promised …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Discovery reports Q1 revenue rose 13% YoY to $3.16B; the CFO estimates the WarnerMedia part of 2022's profit baseline will be about $500M lower than expected
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Marie Woolf / Canadian Press:
Rachel Curran, a Meta Canada policy manager, tells a parliamentary panel the company has “serious concerns” about an online news bill modeled on Australia's law — OTTAWA - Digital giant Meta says it has “serious concerns” about the federal government's online news bill …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue of $6.87B, up 14% YoY but below estimates of $7.48B, and blames Q1 2021's “exceptional” direct response ad performance — YouTube advertising sales for the first three months of 2022 grew 14%, to reach $6.87 billion …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding audio and graphics staff and beefing up copy-editing and fact-checking — The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding new departments for audio and graphics …
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
IFC Films, which previously held distribution pacts with Showtime and Hulu, and AMC Networks announce a deal for a weekly exclusive IFC movie premiere on AMC+ — IFC Films is moving its first pay television window to AMC+, in a bid by AMC Networks to carve out a weekly exclusive movie premiere every week …
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Peter White / Deadline:
Warner Music Group launches podcast network Interval Presents with talk shows and narrative-driven episodic shows, such as from Lupita Nyong'o and Jason Derulo — Warner Music Group is launching a podcast network and has set shows from stars including Lupita Nyong'o and Jason Derulo.
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@marzdodge, @intrvlprsnts, Music Business Worldwide and Hollywood Reporter
Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
The Mail on Sunday editor rejects a meeting with the House of Commons speaker about a story saying Labour's Angela Rayner distracted Boris Johnson with her legs — David Dillon had been called to a meeting with Sir Lindsay Hoyle after running a story widely condemned as sexist
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