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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney depart Saturday Night Live after its 47th season finale; McKinnon was in a female-record 211 episodes — Saturday Night Live bid farewell to four veteran cast members tonight, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A look at Lara Logan's journey from being a star at CBS News to working on far right fringe causes, like vaccine skepticism, denying the 2020 election, and more — The former chief foreign affairs correspondent is now a popular guest on podcasts hosted by vaccine skeptics and deniers of the 2020 election.
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Felix M. Simon / Taylor & Francis:
Research paper: platform companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft will increasingly control news production and the connection to news as outlets adopt AI — - https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2 063150 — Theorising Dependency, Control, and News Autonomy in an Age of AI and Technology Behemoths
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Wall Street Journal:
Conan O'Brien sells his hit podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, and Team Coco media company to SiriusXM, sources say for ~$150M — The sale of Team Coco comes as audio companies make deals with podcasters with large followings — Conan O'Brien found a friend—and a buyer—in Sirius XM Holdings Inc. SIRI 1.15%▲
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Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter:
How the new, more inclusive editorial leadership in broadcast, cable, digital, and print media is changing newsrooms and guiding coverage — Following the racial reckoning amid the 2020 protests, heads of broadcast, cable, digital and print media became more diverse. Here's how the new guard is guiding coverage.
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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
YouTube takes down 70K+ videos and 9K+ channels about the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including videos referring to a “liberation mission” — Exclusive: Platform takes ‘unprecedented action’ to address content guideline violations since invasion
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts approached Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson earlier in 2022 with a plan to merge NBCUniversal with EA; the plan fell apart — For months, the media elite have been wondering what the Comcast impresario might buy to scale up in the content wars.
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Reuters:
Netflix agrees to settle a tax dispute in Italy for $59M; prosecutors argued cables and servers used by Netflix amounted to a physical presence in the country — U.S. streaming service Netflix has agreed to settle a tax dispute with Italy, the company and legal sources said on Friday.
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Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Roger Angell, a baseball writer and editor at The New Yorker widely considered among the best the US has produced, dies at his Manhattan home at age 101 — In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The compensation and profile of TV news anchors have grown as the demand for content rises, due to news outlets' push into social media, streaming, and podcasts — The business of agents turning anchors into A-listers is being boosted by growth in social media and the rise of digital media and podcasts.
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
Meta is hosting up to 300 content creators for two days at a villa in Cannes; an Instagram “Reels Squad” of 120 creators is covering The Cannes Film Festival — The social giant formerly known as Facebook is taking the Croisette by storm and rolling out the red carpet for creators at the festival.
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Marie Woolf / Canadian Press:
Canada sanctions Alexander Lebedev, an ex-KGB agent who finances Novaya Gazeta and owns the Evening Standard and the Independent, as part of Russia sanctions — Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced a fresh wave of sanctions against Vladimir Putin's regime on Friday, including a ban on importing Russian vodka, caviar and diamonds.
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