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9:20 AM ET, June 7, 2022

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: The Washington Post suspended reporter David Weigel for one month without pay for retweeting a sexist joke from YouTuber Cam Harless on Friday  —  New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.
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The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee asks staff to treat each other with respect and kindness after two reporters argued on Twitter over a sexist joke  —  Felicia Sonmez and Jose Del Real traded bitter barbs on Twitter about a third reporter, Dave Weigel.
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed stock dropped 41%+ on Monday, after the lockup for executives and institutional investors expired on June 1  —  Move marks worst one-day percentage drop in digital-media upstart's short trading history  —  BuzzFeed Inc.'s stock plummeted 41% on Monday, shortly after a ban preventing executives …
Michael McGowan / The Guardian:
An Australian federal judge orders Google to pay a former politician $715K for doing “nothing to prevent” YouTuber Friendlyjordies' “abusive” videos about him  —  Tech giant and comedian Jordan Shanks may face contempt of court charges over videos published during trial
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The family of Ehud Yonay, whose 1983 article inspired the 1986 movie Top Gun, sues Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick  —  The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” on Monday sued Paramount Pictures …
Axios:
Religion of Sports, a media production startup founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra in 2017, raises a $50M Series B led by Shamrock Capital  —  Religion of Sports, the sports media production company co-founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and filmmaker and entrepreneur Gotham Chopra …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku launches Espacio Latino, a hub for US-based Spanish-speaking audiences with hundreds of hours of free programming, in partnership with Telemundo and others  —  Atención, teleadictos!  —  Roku has unwrapped Espacio Latino, a new destination for U.S. Spanish-speaking audiences …
New York Times:
A look at Chris Licht's first moves as CNN chairman: reducing partisanship and, sources say, making morning TV more inviting and revamping Sunday night's lineup  —  Chris Licht, the new CNN chairman, is encouraging a more nuanced approach to coverage.  Some at the network are skeptical.
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
The Financial Times' How To Spend It rebrand to HTSI seems like hollow virtue signaling and an attempt to insert a modicum of modesty into hard-core wealth porn  —  We know, we know: We live in the era of “eat the rich.”  Conspicuous consumption is supposed to turn our collectively enlightened stomachs.
Claire Atkinson / Insider:
Sources: Netflix is in talks for US Formula 1 rights, which would mark its first foray into live sports; ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Amazon are also interested  —  - Netflix is chasing Formula 1 rights in the US, sources told Insider, in its first foray into live sports.
Variety:
After Hollywood majors withdrew from Russia, some cinemas are turning to illicit screenings, sometimes using different titles and selling handwritten tickets  —  Russian cinemas have responded to international sanctions over the war in Ukraine by going pirate.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify named Maya Prohovnik, its director of R&D for talk content, as its head of talk, replacing Michael Mignano, who announced in May he is leaving  —  Spotify Technology SA named a new executive to oversee its creator and talk-content strategy, the latest in a series of management shuffles at the company.
 
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

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Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

 
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