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3:50 PM ET, May 3, 2022

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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.
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.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount is launching Paramount+ in the UK and South Korea in June 2022 and in India in 2023
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 …
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.
Discussion: Variety
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 …
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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An NBC News review finds 11 articles by reporter Teaganne Finn has plagiarized passages; NBC added an editor's note to each article and removed the passages