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Wall Street Journal:
Conan O'Brien sells his hit podcast “Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend” and his 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 …
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Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter:
How the new, more diverse editorial leadership in broadcast, cable, digital, and print media is changing newsrooms and guiding coverage to be more inclusive — Following the racial reckoning amid the 2020 protests, heads of broadcast, cable, digital and print media became more diverse.
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@eugene_scott, @javimorgado, @jayrosen_nyu, @michellemanafy and @catesevilla
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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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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Daily Chronicle …, @janelytv, Reclaim The Net, @dewaleadesanya, @dimitrilascaris, @lezluthor, @timothyjgraham, @evelyndouek and @spencerguard
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Interview with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie on building “a true alternative to the attention economy” by expanding into podcasts and videos, and more — The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” …
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@danfriedman81, @imao_, @mattnippert, @joepompeo, @helentobin, @lulumeservey, @joepompeo, @kait_tiffany, @brianstelter, @mlcalderone and @joepompeo
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A look at Lara Logan's journey from being a CBS News star to working on far-right fringe causes, like vaccine skepticism, denying the 2020 US 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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@jwpetersnyt, Overtime, @mtaibbi, @nprinskeep, @ameshiacross, @mjfree, @chwangjulian, @mtaibbi, @ggreenwald, @davetroy, @brianleiter, @soledadobrien, @garethicke, @skirchy, @tati_wm, @redsteeze, @nytimes, @bradmossesq and @willsommer
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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Broadband TV News, @ajayrotti, @reuterslegal, Light Reading, @pauljmonaghan and Media Play News
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The Weather Channel will add a livestream of its cable channel to its connected TV apps, available for free to cable subscribers or for $2.99 per month — The executives at the company that owns cable's venerable Weather Channel know they have a popular service. The network has been around since 1982.
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Next TV, Junghoon's Direct Media …, @2xaught7 and Radio & Television …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta plans to give outside researchers more info on political ad targeting on Facebook and Instagram and to update Ad Library with more info starting in July — Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram.
Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of Twitter account New York Times Pitchbot, run by a math professor mocking the NYT's lazy constructions, half-baked hot takes, and diner interviews — A few weeks ago, the person behind the New York Times Pitchbot—not a bot at all, but a Twitter account whose posts satirize …
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@_cingraham, @syardi, @walldo, @patterico and @calaesthetic
Lara Seligman / Politico:
US Air Force rescinds a rule banning foreigners from using electronics on its planes and apologizes to Reuters' Idrees Ali for seizing his phone on a DoD trip — The Pentagon seized a foreign reporter's phone and would not allow him to use his electronics while traveling with the Defense Department's …
Los Angeles Times:
A look at the rapid growth of free streaming channels in recent years, as users get more sophisticated about mixing and matching services amid rising inflation — There's a new hot buzzword in the streaming video business — it's spelled f-r-e-e. — While Netflix is reeling …
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@nemalki, @jf_darwin, @nemalki, @artsjournalnews, @producer_jayc and @tvgrimreaper
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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