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3:15 AM ET, June 15, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Apple and Major League Soccer announce a 2023-2032 broadcasting deal, with games available via MLS Apple TV app or Apple TV+; source: deal is worth $250M+/year  —  Deal underscores iPhone maker's streaming ambitions and battle for sports programming  —  Apple Inc. AAPL 0.73%▲ …
Pew Research Center:
Journalist survey: 67% say social media has a negative impact on journalism, 82% think they should keep their views out of reporting, 55% oppose bothsiderism  —  77% would choose their career all over again, though 57% are highly concerned about future restrictions on press freedom
Peter White / Deadline:
Netflix orders a 10-part reality series, Squid Game: The Challenge, with 456 English-language speakers from around the world competing for a $4.56M cash prize  —  Squid Game is becoming reality.  —  The dystopian Korean drama series - Netflix's biggest series ever - is being turned …
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
A Q&A with Axios EIC Sara Kehaulani Goo on the daily coverage in its Business Suite package, bundling newsletters as an audience engagement strategy, and more  —  Bundling appears to be the new strategy for newsletter publishers like Axios that are hoping to lock in loyal readers.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Washington Post has licensed its Arc XP CMS to 2,000+ companies, up from ~1,500 a year ago; sources: Arc XP generates ~$40M-$50M in ARR but isn't profitable  —  The Washington Post is looking to double down on its investment in its tech publishing arm, Arc XP, despite outside sales interest valuing …
Natasha Turak / CNBC:
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  —  - The United Arab Emirates' Media Regulatory Office announced it would ban Disney Pixar's “Lightyear” …
Discussion: BBC and Deadline
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 …
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment sign a deal to create scripted and non-scripted film and TV based on the outlet's archive and current reporting  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film …
 
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Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch expands its ad incentive program to more partners and offers bigger payouts by shifting from a flat rate for every 1,000 ads to sharing 55% of ad revenue
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney considered firing Peter Rice for months; for some, he was an impassioned creative executive, for others, a malcontent off in his own fiefdom
Axios:
Pinterest strikes a multimillion-dollar, multiyear deal with Tastemade that will result in 50 new TV shows with about 20 episodes each, live videos, and events
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Madeleine Lim / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg journalist Haze Fan was released on bail in January 2022 per Washington's Chinese embassy; she was detained in December 2020 and arrested in July 2021
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Netflix, which has released 23 mobile games since November 2021, plans to double its games by the end of 2022 to have one “for every single one of our members”
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Spotify announces a Safety Advisory Council to provide non-binding third-party input on issues such as hate speech, disinformation, extremism, and online abuse