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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Chief Justice Roberts confirms the authenticity of the leaked draft Politico published and orders an investigation into the source of the leak — - Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft opinion from the court that would overturn decades-old abortion rights enshrined by Roe v. Wade.
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Politico publishing a draft SCOTUS opinion on Roe v. Wade is unprecedented in modern times; Politico's EIC says it is “plainly news of great public interest” — A draft Supreme Court opinion has never been disclosed publicly. Media observers were quick to question whether Politico should have run with it.
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
Politico has not explained how it verified the SCOTUS draft opinion and provided little detail on how it got the copy; an explanation would help dubious readers — Politico's editors would help skeptical readers if they explained how they made their decision to publish an unprecedented draft court opinion.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q1 revenue of $7.3B, down 1% YoY, and net earnings of $433M, down from $911M a year ago; revenue from streaming grew 82% YoY to $1.1B — Paramount Global said first-quarter profit fell as the company's investments in content and declines in its traditional business offset gains it made in streaming.
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 62M global streaming subscribers in Q1, up 6.3M over Q4; Paramount+ added 6.8M subscribers for a total of ~40M; Pluto TV has ~68M MAUs — Paramount Global also grew monthly active users for its advertising-supported streamer Pluto TV further in the first quarter.
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Variety, Deadline, The Streamable and Hollywood Reporter
Reporters Without Borders:
RSF publishes the 2022 edition of the World Press Freedom Index; the press freedom situation is “very bad” in a record 28 countries — Organisation: — RSF_en — The 20th World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals a two-fold increase …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Roku and private equity firm Apollo Global Management team up to bid for a stake as large as 20% in Lionsgate's pay-TV and streaming service Starz — Lions Gate Entertainment said in November it would explore a sale or spin-off of Starz, the network behind ‘Outlander’ and ‘Power’
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@pkafka, @pkafka and @dcherring
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
70% of households that wanted to pay less or nothing for the BBC changed their minds after joining a study where they went nine days without any BBC content — After just nine days of living without any BBC services, 70% of the households hostile to paying the full license fee had changed their minds.
Lauren Sherman / Business of Fashion:
Sources: Vogue charged $1M for two six-second spots on its Met Gala livestream and other amplification; in 2021, the stream generated 16.5M views in two weeks — What began as a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute has also become a major revenue opportunity for publisher Condé Nast.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Decrypt, an outlet covering crypto and Web3, is spinning out from parent company ConsenSys Mesh after raising a $10M Series A at a $50M post-money valuation — Decrypt, a media company that focuses on covering cryptocurrency and web3, has spun out from its parent company after raising …
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Talking Biz News, VentureBeat, @twittner, @jeffjohnroberts, @consensysmesh, @garbnzgh and CoinDesk
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Anchor co-founder and Spotify's podcasting tech chief Michael Mignano resigned last week, the third high-profile exit from Spotify's podcast division in a month — The head of Spotify's podcasting tech stack is out — Michael Mignano, co-founder of Anchor and Spotify's podcasting tech chief …
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Engadget, RAIN News, Light Reading, @evoterra, @arshapiro90, Channel News and Billboard
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
A+E, Univision, Fox, AMC Networks, and others are leaning into linear TV to stand out amid a streaming boom, hoping a diversified approach is more lucrative — Betting that they can't compete with Netflix and hoping a diversified approach is more lucrative, A+E, Fox Corp. and AMC Networks …
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