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Sources: the NFL plans to launch its own streaming service, NFL Plus, in July 2022; the centerpiece will be live games on phones and tablets for ~$5 per month — Today in Unpacks: SBJ's Ben Fischer with the latest from the NFL owners meetings in Atlanta. — PGA Championship finale lower than Phil's win in 2021
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Reuters:
The UK launches a review of the BBC focused on impartiality and staff diversity and asks it to aim for 25% of its staff to be from low socioeconomic backgrounds — The British government asked the BBC to aim for one in four of its staff to be from low socio-economic backgrounds as it launched …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How a 2019 joint investigation by the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle led to the disclosure of sex abuse by Southern Baptist church leaders — A 2019 investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News prompted this week's massive disclosure about church leaders implicated in sex abuse cases.
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
The Daily Telegraph reports 740K subscribers, on track to hit 1M by the end of 2023, as 2021 revenue grew 4% YoY to £245M and profit jumped 25% YoY to £33.3M — Telegraph Media Group Ltd Chief Executive Officer Nick Hugh is counting on Silicon Valley to pay the British newspaper for content …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google starts rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their video ads on Shorts more shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.
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Reuters:
Russia's foreign ministry says it told YouTube that every time it blocks a weekly briefing the country will expel an American journalist or outlet — Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that reporters from Western countries will be expelled from Russia if YouTube (GOOGL.O) blocks access to its spokeswoman's briefings.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news outlet that covers education at the local level, raises $3.1M to permanently launch Votebeat, a newsroom for covering voting locally — Chalkbeat, the nonprofit news outlet that covers education at the local level, has raised $3.1 million to permanently launch …
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Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
A Q&A with Justin Peden, a 20-year-old Alabama college student who uses OSINT to document the war in Ukraine through his popular Twitter account, The Intel Crab — Justin Peden, a 20-year-old Alabama college student, runs one of the most-followed Twitter accounts documenting the war in Ukraine.
CNN:
An investigation finds new evidence suggesting that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli forces in an attack targeting reporters — This story contains a disturbing image. — (CNN)Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank.
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Capital Cities Communications CEO Thomas S. Murphy, who bought ABC for $3.5B in 1985 and sold the combined company to Disney for $19B in 1995, dies at 96 — As the head of Capital Cities Communications, he engineered the acquisition of the TV giant. He later sold the company to Disney, at a huge profit.
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Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
An interview with Novaya Gazeta's UK correspondent Evgeniya Dillendorf on the Russian media, why BBC in Russia is “not as influential as it could be”, and more — Russian independent media failed to gain wider public trust in the country because it did not try …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Hipgnosis acquires Justin Timberlake's song catalog for an undisclosed sum — The star lauded the fund and its founder, saying the latter “values artists and their creative work and has always been a strong supporter of songwriters and storytelling.” … Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed.
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