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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
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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 …
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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
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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
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
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Ron Cassie / Baltimore Magazine:
After shutting down in 2020, alt-weekly Baltimore Beat is relaunching as a bi-monthly, Black-led print newspaper and website using a $1M gift from a charity — Baltimore isn't getting one additional news outlet this summer, it's getting two. — The Baltimore Beat, which had emerged …
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
UK's Ministry of Justice publishes “reporters' charter” listing journalists' rights in court, including remote access and ability to post on social media — The Ministry of Justice has published a “reporters' charter“, a document listing in one place the “rights” journalists should be afforded during court reporting.
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