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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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Hollywood Reporter, Sirius XM Holdings Inc., Variety, Deadline, Inside Radio, The Desk, RAIN News, Mediaite, Insider, New York Post, TechCrunch, @nizzalie, @russellholly, The Wrap, @davidgura, @firstadopter, @coopercooperco, @yaelkohen, @henereyg, @danhausenad, @ashleyrcarman and @lanceulanoff
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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@javimorgado, @jayrosen_nyu, @michellemanafy and @catesevilla
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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Reclaim The Net, @dewaleadesanya, @dimitrilascaris, @lezluthor, @timothyjgraham, @evelyndouek and @spencerguard
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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@jwpetersnyt, @garethicke, @nprinskeep, @ameshiacross, @mjfree, @chwangjulian, @ggreenwald, @davetroy, @brianleiter, @soledadobrien, @skirchy, @tati_wm, @redsteeze, @nytimes, @bradmossesq and @willsommer
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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Deadline, SlashFilm, Hollywood Reporter, YouTube, Us Weekly, Page Six, Collider, New York Times, Hollywood Life, The Guardian, Nerdist, @chrisabraham, Los Angeles Times, @bristei, @bristei, @hannibalburess, @jessedmcanally, @stevenpetrow, @davidlaz, @alexgelhar, @gilesferrell, Hollywood Life, SlashFilm, Next TV, Page Six, Washington Post, Decider, Vanity Fair, NME, Us Weekly, Rolling Stone, TVLine, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, TMZ.com, Mediaite, The Wrap, ScreenRant, E! Online, NME, al.com, The Mary Sue, The Wrap, New York Post, Variety, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, NBC10 Philadelphia, NPR, The Daily Beast, CBS News and Variety
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:
Weather Channel will add a livestream of its cable channel to its connected TV apps, available free to cable subscribers or $2.99 per month for others — 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, Radio & Television … and @2xaught7
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Interview with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie: Substack aims to become a “true alternative to the attention economy” as it expands into podcasts and videos — The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” …
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@joepompeo, @helentobin, @lulumeservey, @joepompeo, @kait_tiffany, @brianstelter, @mlcalderone and @joepompeo
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.
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@jason_kint, @justinhendrix, @profcarroll, @whotargetsme, Protocol, @ianclucas, Reuters and The Financial Express, more at Techmeme »
Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of NYT Pitchbot, a Twitter account run by a 52-year-old math professor mocking NYT's lazy constructions, half-baked takes, and obsession with diners — 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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@calaesthetic, @syardi, @_cingraham, @walldo and @patterico
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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@michellemanafy, @_felixsimon_, @djeditorialteam and @_felixsimon_
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon seized Reuters reporter Idrees Ali's phone on a DoD trip on Sunday, citing a new rule banning foreigners from using electronics on Air Force planes — The Pentagon seized a foreign reporter's phone and would not allow him to use his electronics while traveling with the Defense Department's …
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@idreesali114, American Press Institute, Mediaite, @michaelstone, @nancyayoussef, @humeyra_pamuk and @ak_mack
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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SlashFilm, The Wrap and Tubefilter
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