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An Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday — Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank Wednesday, the network said.
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Bethan McKernan / The Guardian:
Al Jazeera accuses Israel of intentionally killing Shireen Abu Akleh, who was wearing body armor marked “press”; Israel says Palestinians could be responsible — Israel denies Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by its troops and says she may have been hit by Palestinian fire
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Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
Sen. Josh Hawley introduces a copyright bill to threaten Disney, retroactively applying rules to strip Disney's IP assets upon bill passage, which won't happen — I can't believe I'm taking Disney's side on anything — I have been told to blog about Senator Josh Hawley's new copyright bill …
Washington Post:
The Washington Post will establish a bureau in Kyiv, led by former Moscow correspondent Isabelle Khurshudyan with Max Bearak as chief Ukraine correspondent — The Post's continued coverage of the conflict will also draw on a rotation of correspondents, photographers and video journalists on-the ground.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 strikes a deal with YouTube to put 1,000 hours of hit shows onto the service for free, the largest such deal with a UK broadcaster — Exclusive: agreement allows broadcaster to sell ads around programmes in potential new era of deals with Silicon Valley
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Meduza.io:
Two Russian journalists for pro-government news site Lenta.ru replaced ~20 articles with posts critical of Putin and his war in Ukraine; Lenta deleted the posts — On the morning of May 9, anti-war articles filled the homepage of the Russian pro-government outlet Lenta.ru.
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Matt Schifrin / Forbes:
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will acquire DVD rental and streaming company Redbox for $375M in an all-stock deal — New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! — Among buggy whip businesses, Redbox Entertainment (RDBX), the Oakbrook Terrace …
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Google signs deals with 300+ outlets in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland to pay for news content and will roll out tools for them — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries …
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
Tom Brady plans to join Fox Sports as its lead NFL analyst and ambassador once he retires; sources: Brady's contract is a record $375M over 10 years — Fox Sports' deal to make Tom Brady its lead NFL game analyst after he retires is for 10 years and $375 million, The Post has learned.
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: staffers at The Business of Business, Thinknum's media arm, say they did not receive April paychecks; co-founder Justin Zhen went on leave last week — The co-founder of media startup The Business of Business was one of WeWork's earliest antagonists. Now he's the one facing questions.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports Q1 external revenue rose 18% YoY to £834M as ITV Studios revenue rises 23% YoY to £458M; ad revenue was up 16% YoY — U.K. broadcaster ITV's quarterly external revenues have soared 18% to £834 million ($1.02 billion), up from £709 million in 2021.
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Financial Times:
Paris-based TV production group Banijay, known for its reality TV shows, and sports betting group Betclic will go public via a SPAC, creating FL Entertainment — Deal backed by Bernard Arnault and Tikehau will create new player in European entertainment — French entrepreneur Stéphane Courbit …
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