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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Chris Licht's political ties and early moves as CNN chairman and CEO, as the longtime ratings obsessive tries to position CNN as above partisanship — In 2010, Chris Licht, then the executive producer of MSNBC's Morning Joe, suffered a brain aneurysm and, as he later put it in a memoir …
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Sports Business Journal:
Sources: F1 renews its ESPN US media rights deal through 2025, rejecting Amazon and Comcast, for around $75M-$90M per year, up from the current $5M per year — F1 has agreed to renew its rights deal with ESPN through 2025, sources told SBJ. The three-year deal still doesn't have a signed contract …
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Seth Smalley / Poynter:
YouTube faces criticism for a failure to enforce quality standards, a lack of communication, and more during an International Fact-Checking Network conference — The tech giant has been under particular scrutiny since the international fact-checking community sent a critical open letter to its CEO in January
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction — On May 17, as several states held their primary elections, Jesse Littlewood searched the internet using a tool called CrowdTangle …
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Adam Johnson / The Column:
Police PR departments often invite local news to cover training simulations to sell the “community” on the idea that use of force is inevitable and preferable — Technology that allegedly “trains” officers for “split-second” “life or death” decisions is far more about P.R. than preventing violence.
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
PwC M&A survey for media and telecom: deals for the 12 months ending May 15 totaled 1,014, up 28% YoY, with a record value of $469B, but the pace has slowed — Media and telecom M&A activity was lively in the first half of 2022 with deals for the 12 months ending May 15 totaling 1,014 …
ITV News:
Channel 4 announces it will broadcast a documentary made by Alison Millar about Lyra McKee, who was shot dead while observing riots in Northern Ireland in 2019 — Channel 4 has announced a film about the life and death of “trailblazing” investigative journalist Lyra McKee - who was shot dead in 2019 in Londonderry.
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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
How TikTok is cashing in on its exploding popularity; source: TikTok plans to grow its e-commerce gross merchandise volume to $2B in 2022 and $23B in 2023 — Alyssa McKay used to work part-time at a frozen yogurt store in Portland, Oregon, making minimum wage to cover her college tuition.
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple quietly raised the prices for the Apple Music student plan, from $4.99 to $5.99 per month in the US and Canada and from £4.99 to £5.99 per month in the UK — Apple last month quietly raised the price of the Apple Music student plan in several countries such as South Africa …
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Washington Post:
A look at the techniques used in the live broadcasts presenting the House January 6 committee's evidence, produced by former ABC News president James Goldston — The panel probing the Capitol attack is trying to turn its investigative grind into must-see television
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
A look at the 20-year-old SCOTUSblog, founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe, who see it as a public service and say it loses ~$400K/year — New York CNN Business — … Where will you be at 10am ET on Thursday? Like tens of thousands of other people …
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@sarahscire, @brianstelter and Bloomberg
Variety:
Netflix lays off roughly 300 people out of its ~11,000 global employees, with the bulk of the jobs lost in the US, after initial job cuts of 150+ in May 2022 — Layoffs have hit Netflix again, with the streamer letting go of roughly 300 staffers on Thursday, Variety has learned exclusively.
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Sarandos confirms Netflix is talking with potential partners to help launch an ad-supported tier and says the company might build its own ad business later
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Nation quietly starts running commercials; EVP says they are “very rare,” for “major partnerships,” and consist of billboards at the bottom of the screen — Streaming outlet Fox Nation is already running the commercials its larger rivals say they want to sell.
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