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3:50 PM ET, July 15, 2022

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney plans to raise ESPN+'s monthly subscription from $6.99 to $9.99 and its annual price from $69.99 to $99.99, 43% increases, starting on August 23, 2022  —  The Disney-backed streaming-video sports service intends to raise its monthly subscription fee by $3 a month …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Protocol names MIT Technology Review Executive Editor Michael Reilly as editorial director; Protocol Editor-In-Chief Tim Grieve is leaving after four years  —  Michael Reilly, the executive editor of MIT Technology Review, has been hired as editorial director of tech news site Protocol.
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Hasbro is paying The New York Times a licensing fee to release Wordle: The Party Game, a Wordle board game, on October 1 for a suggested price of $19.99  —  New York (CNN Business)Wordle is jumping from the P-H-O-N-E to the B-O-A-R-D.  —  Hasbro is partnering with the New York Times …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Beyoncé joins TikTok, gaining 3.3M+ followers in her first day on the platform, and offers her entire catalog for users to choose from as music for their videos  —  Pop superstar Beyoncé has joined the short-form video app (link) — and her entire catalog is now available …
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Report: in the days before January 6, Chinese hackers targeted US journalists with malicious emails to find out if there would be a peaceful transfer of power  —  Washington (CNN Business)In the days before the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Chinese hackers sent out a flurry of malicious emails …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Simone Oliver steps down as global editor-in-chief of Vice Media Group's Refinery29 “to pursue other opportunities”; Oliver took on the role in September 2020  —  Just shy of two years into the role, Simone Oliver is stepping down as global editor-in-chief of Vice Media Group's Refinery29.
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Gavin Bridge / Variety:
Analysis and estimates: the annual value of US TV and streaming sports rights will reach $21.5B in 2022 and $26.5B by 2023, a 74% increase since 2015  —  F1's recent huge U.S. media rights hike — from $5 million a year to a reported $75M (+1,500%) to $90M (+1,700%) — has the feel of déjà vu.
Maria L. La Ganga / Los Angeles Times:
A Los Angeles Times reporter says two former top LA Times editors tried to kill a story on drug use by the University of Southern California's med school dean  —  It would be hard to find a worse couple of years than 2016 and 2017 for two major Los Angeles institutions: the University of Southern California and The Times.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The UK's The New European closes its fundraising scheme after raising £1M from 2,000 readers who it says now own 16.7% of the business  —  UPDATE 14 July 2022: The New European last night closed its fundraising scheme having raised £1m from 2,000 new co-owners.
The Guardian:
Guardian News and Media appoints The Intercept's EIC Betsy Reed as editor of Guardian US, replacing John Mulholland, who earlier announced he would step down  —  GNM press office  —  Guardian News and Media today announces the appointment of Betsy Reed as new editor of Guardian US.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
After Roe, reporters may have to rely on a single source, on the record, to tell stories about the end of legal abortion, as others stay quiet to avoid arrest  —  In America after the end of Roe v. Wade, one brave source, on the record, is often the best we are going to get.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Glenn Kessler's Washington Post “fact check” of an IndyStar story on a 10-year-old who had to get an abortion in Indiana mainstreamed doubting its credibility
 
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
LiveOne, formerly called LiveXLive and owner of Slacker Radio, says it has raised $8.1M for its PodcastOne subsidiary as part of a plan to spin it off
Claire Atkinson / Insider:
Sources: former Disney CEO Bob Iger clashed with the company's board over succession planning and “greatly regretted” choosing Bob Chapek “as soon as COVID hit”
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market
Nate Hochman / National Review:
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who started at her father's WND and became Trump's White House communications director, changed her public posture as she sought TV jobs
Science:
A study comparing the consumption of partisan online news to TV news suggests that television is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans