Mediagazer: A study finds that installing NewsGuard's extension increased reliable news consumption among US participants who tended to spend time on unreliable news sites (Shraddha Chakradhar/Nieman Lab)

8:15 AM ET, May 13, 2022

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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:

The US DOJ secretly subpoenaed a Guardian reporter's phone info in 2020, as part of a leak investigation into stories about Trump's child separation policy — Newspaper decries ‘egregious’ move by DoJ to obtain details of Stephanie Kirchgaessner as part of investigation into media leaks

Richard Lawler / The Verge:

Disney CEO Bob Chapek weighs going “more aggressively into the DTC area of ESPN” but doesn't share specifics and says linear networks are “huge cash generators” — Disney isn't ready to ‘pull the trigger’ on its linear cable network

Discussion: Deadline, The Streamable, The Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, The Wrap and Awful Announcing

Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's streaming subscribers hit 205.6M globally in Q2: Disney+ added 7.9M subscribers to reach 137.7M, Hulu added 300K to 45.6M, and ESPN+ added 1M to 22.3M

Discussion: The Drum, @thr, @pabl0hidalgo, The Week, Billboard and IndieWire

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q2 revenue of $19.25B, up 23% YoY, missing financial estimates due to several one-time charges, but beats Disney+ subscriber growth estimates

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix updates its corporate culture policy, adding that it avoids censoring specific artists and that staffers should vow to spend money wisely — Netflix loves to tout its culture of avoiding rules and minimizing corporate red tape. But of course, the company does have operating guidelines …

Discussion: Deadline, @lpbradley, @lpbradley, @megbasham, @kateaurthur, @loudmouthjulia, Next TV and Hollywood Reporter

Shraddha Chakradhar / Nieman Lab:

A study finds that installing NewsGuard's extension increased reliable news consumption among US participants who tended to spend time on unreliable news sites — As more companies and platforms adopt ways to figure out whether fact-checking, flagging questionable content …

Discussion: @andyguess, @dpfunke, @csmap_nyu and @niemanlab

Ben Mullin / @benmullin:

[Thread] Source: Insider founder Henry Blodget told staff the company is pulling back on making new hires; spokesperson: Insider is slowing down its growth plan — Insider founder Henry Blodget just told staffers the company is pulling back on making new hires, according to a person familiar with the matter. His remarks came during a quarterly update meeting.

Discussion: @benmullin

New York Times:

Bloomberg Media launches Bloomberg UK with a website, video series, podcast, and a summit in 2022, to compete with The Financial Times and The Sunday Times — A new venture, Bloomberg UK, is the first inkling of a new international strategy for the business news giant. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Discussion: Future News & Web3 Media, @emilybell, @bgrueskin, @msh200, @benmullin and Bloomberg

Bevin Fletcher / Fierce Video:

Comcast Cable president of advertising Marcien Jenckes will lead the Comcast-Charter joint venture to build a streaming service on 4K devices and smart TVs — Charter and Comcast have tapped advertising executive Marcien Jenckes to head up the partners' recently announced streaming platform joint venture.

Discussion: Variety, @tkgore, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter and Media Play News

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Analysis: 29 English-language news outlets have over 100K digital subscribers; in total, the outlets have 30M subscribers, led by NYT, WaPo, and WSJ with 14M — The world's largest English-language news publishers now have more than 30m digital subscriptions between them, research from Press Gazette today shows.

Discussion: @wturvill

David Ingram / NBC News:

Some local officials have forced schools and libraries to shut down or restrict e-reader apps like Epic and OverDrive after objections by conservative parents — E-reader apps that became lifelines for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries.

Discussion: @pwkidsbookshelf, @wndu, @dashkaslater, @cindyotis_, @oneunderscore__, @stratgleeson and @slpng_giants

John Bartlett / The Guardian:

Francisca Sandoval dies after getting shot in the head while reporting on Workers' Day marches in Santiago, Chile; police arrested a suspect two days later — Francisca Sandoval, 29, is the first journalist to be killed in the line of duty in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship

Discussion: @risj_oxford, Committee to Protect …, @cfwij, @denisrogatyuk, @amybwrites, @janoveliz, @cpjamericas, @amybwrites, @jwbartlett92, @benjalvarez1, @amybwrites and @borisvanderspek

Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:

Spotify promotes Bill Simmons to oversee global sports strategy and names Parcast founder Max Cutler as head of creator content and partnerships — He will lead a new global sports push for the streamer — Spotify has lost a number of top executives in the past month …

Discussion: The Wrap and Deadline

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:

The Chainsmokers partner with NFT music platform Royal to release 5K NFTs, giving holders a cut of streaming royalties, priority access for tickets, and more — Pop music duo the Chainsmokers plan to release nonfungible tokens that will give fans a cut of the streaming royalties from their new album, “So Far So Good.”

Discussion: @newsynick and @cpen

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