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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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James Risen / The Intercept:
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