Mediagazer: The UAE bans Disney's Pixar movie Lightyear over a “violation of the country's media content standards”, despite saying in 2021 it would no longer censor films (Natasha Turak/CNBC)

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

2022 Digital News Report: the number of people that say they avoid the news has increased in all markets since 2017, doubling in Brazil to 54% and the UK to 46% — The pandemic brought a bump in news consumption that now seems to be fading away, Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Reuters Institute …, Digital Content Next, The Muffin por Mauricio …, What's New in Publishing and newslaundry.com

Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:

YouGov survey for Reuters 2022 Digital News Report finds renewed falling trust, more news avoidance, TikTok and Telegram growth for news, and growth in podcasts — Last year's report contained some positive signs for the news industry, with higher consumption and rising trust amidst a second wave of Coronavirus lockdowns.

Dennis Young / SFGATE:

Fox Sports edited out the first pitch by trans Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider at Saturday's Giants game, instead airing taped video of a NASCAR driver's pitch — On Saturday, Oakland resident and trailblazing “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider threw out the first pitch at the Giants game for Pride Day.

Discussion: Sports Illustrated, @dpyoung13, @stevekopack and New York Post

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Nielsen plans to add data on consumer reactions to ads to Nielsen One, including successful purchases, website visits, and more — Nielsen has for decades been known as the company that counts people. Now it wants to start counting their reactions. — The media measurement giant …

Discussion: Adweek and Next TV

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:

Google says 1.5B people watch YouTube Shorts every month; TikTok said it had 1B MAUs in September 2021, growing to an estimated 1.6B MAUs in March 2022 — Alphabet's Google discloses Shorts monthly viewership for first time amid heightened competition from TikTok and Instagram Reels

Discussion: Variety, Bloomberg, @mhbergen, CNET and @xpangler, more at Techmeme »

Marty Swant / Digiday:

Walmart-owned Sam's Club overhauls its ad network, including adding a self-service platform to let advertisers buy sponsored product ads — As retailers increasingly invest in ways to let advertisers reach consumers on their online properties, Sam's Club is the latest to give its ad network a major overhaul.

Discussion: Adweek, MediaPost, Ad Age and @martyswant

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:

Paramount Global says international CEO Raffaele Annecchino is “on leave” effective immediately and appoints three executives to jointly run the business — Three executives will step in to lead the international business as “interim heads.” — Paramount Global said Wednesday …

Discussion: Broadband TV News, Deadline and Variety

James Vincent / The Verge:

YouTube launches a corrections feature, letting creators add infocards at a relevant timestamp — Instead of having to re-upload a whole video — Everyone makes mistakes, but if you mess up a fact or flub a line in a YouTube video it can be hard to correct the error.

Discussion: @caseynewton and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »

Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:

Russia bans 29 UK journalists from entering the country for the “spreading of false information”, including the EICs of The Guardian, The Times, and Daily Mail — Military figures and MPs on list along with staff from most major British newspapers and broadcasters

Discussion: @lukeharding1968, @ormistononline, @peterrneumann, BBC, Reuters and NPR

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:

A look at Watchdog, a Sri Lanka-based research collective that built a fact-checking app and uses open source data to investigate the country's ongoing crises — From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka's ongoing political and economic crisis.

Discussion: @rinachandran, @yudhanjaya, @gavardvalentine and @indulekha_a, more at Techmeme »

Reuters:

Sources: Baidu is in talks to sell its 53% controlling stake in iQiyi, in a deal valuing the streaming service at ~$7B; iQiyi reported its first profit in Q1 — China's internet search engine giant Baidu Inc is in talks to sell its controlling stake in iQIYI Inc (IQ.O), China's answer to Netflix …

Discussion: Variety

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:

A NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP use YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting the country's Muslims and women — Influencers backing India's ruling Hindu nationalist party have used YouTube videos to spread conspiracy theories …

Discussion: @justinhendrix