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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
An interview with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner about the end of the magazine era, not reading Rolling Stone anymore, how his son Gus saved it, and more — The Rolling Stone founder talks about LSD, not reading the magazine anymore and how the Stones now look like “Lord of the Rings” characters onstage.
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
JustWatch research: Netflix has a 27.3% share of global streaming, Amazon Prime Video has 24.3%, Disney+ has 18.2%, HBO Max has 7%, and Apple TV+ has 6.2% — The streaming market has gained several new players in recent years, and this has been affecting consolidated platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp. pay package was $18.4M in fiscal year 2022, down from $31.1M YoY, while Lachlan Murdoch's fell to $21.7M from $27.7M YoY — Don't feel too bad, however. Rupert Murdoch still took home more than $18 million, while son Lachlan Murdoch earned $21.7 million and a contract extension.
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@alexweprin, Deadline and The Wrap
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A Q&A with Disney CEO Bob Chapek on the future of Hulu and ESPN, buying out Comcast's 33% stake in Hulu, a seamless Disney bundle, activist investors, and more — “You should see the backstage,” actor Diego Luna told the D23 Expo crowd Saturday morning as he talked up his new “Star Wars” …
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Financial Times, Reuters, The Wrap and @kirbyslastsnack
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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@brandolightshed, @xrsidotorg, Ad Age, CNBC, Washington Post, @digitalshields, @abebrown716, @abebrown716, @eric_seufert, @laurengoode, @ballmatthew, MediaPost, Adweek and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
A report from Kara Swisher's last Code conference: a backroom poker game, politics in the air, the tribute to Steve Jobs, and genuinely surprising interviews — Inside the poker room and the tribute to Steve Jobs. — “The queen herself, Kara Swisher, big round of applause please,” …
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@ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @jason, @alexeheath, @jayrosen_nyu, @cityofthetown, @thekenyeung, @jeffreyswisher, @jeffreyswisher and @karaswisher
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
How Wikipedia's editors worked to update Queen Elizabeth II's page, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more — RIP, Queen Elizabeth II. There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people …
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@blakersdozen, @tguemes and @jodyserrano, more at Techmeme »
Hirun Cryer / GamesRadar:
Ubisoft says it is developing three mobile games exclusively for Netflix: Mighty Quest 2, Valiant Hearts 2, and a new Assassin's Creed title — There's also a new Valiant Hearts game in the works — Ubisoft just announced a partnership with Netflix for three games.
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Media Play News and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Over 500 US-based Condé Nast workers at 11 publications win union recognition, under the NewsGuild of New York; magazines include Vanity Fair, Allure, and Vogue — Condé Nast employees won union recognition Friday from their company, making workers at iconic …
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
How two colleagues of murdered Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German staked out the house of his alleged killer while continuing to report on the story — Two members of Jeff German's four-member team told The Daily Beast how they found out about their colleague's death—along with how they knew to look at Robert Telles.
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@laprensasd, @robertfaturechi, @bgrueskin, @thedailybeast, @benjamingoggin, @dmihalopoulos, @jfkucinich, @corbinbolies, NBC News and Boing Boing
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announces that from now on, he will simultaneously stream on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter — The mainstays of Twitch's ‘Fortnite’ era recently made big moves. The receptions were quite different.
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@vahn16, @vahn16, @vahn16, @willoremus, @ninja, @ninja, @ninja and The Jacob Wolf Report, more at Techmeme »
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Charter's Spectrum Networks launches Spectrum News CTV, a TV app with original content and news from its 30+ local TV news outlets, free to Spectrum customers — Spectrum Networks today announced the launch of a Spectrum News CTV app for Roku and Apple TV, a compliment to the Spectrum News mobile app the company launched in 2020.
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The Streamable, @charlierybak, @tvgrimreaper and Light Reading
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