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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount considers shutting down its Showtime streaming service in the US and moving its content to Paramount+, matching some international markets — Move would bring together two of entertainment company's offerings in a crowded sector — Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak, Here's How It Plans to Keep Growing
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:
[Thread] Most links have broken for AllThingsD, started by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who unsuccessfully tried to buy its archives from the WSJ in 2013 — This is a thread on the ephemeral nature of content, who owns your work & why creators need to own their IP, which just hit home when I was doing research for my memoir on covering the rise of Silicon Valley. Why? Because most the work we did at All Things Digital has gone poof. https://twitter.com/...
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Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Netflix told ad buyers the company expects its ad-supported tier to reach 4.4M unique viewers globally in 2022, and ~40M by Q3 2023, with 13.3M in the US — Streaming giant shared projections for ‘unique viewers’ across a dozen launch markets with ad buyers
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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Some opponents of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act predict the bill won't become law in 2022 due to partisan differences about content moderation — Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment barring content-moderation prompts partisan bickering over bipartisan bill
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Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In a memo, Semafor announces 19 founding editorial members and new hires — Thrilled about the team we're building @semafor, and just sent this out. Sign up https://www.semafor.com/ to be part of the launch. https://twitter.com/...
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Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends:
Fox's Tubi launches a free, ad-supported FIFA World Cup channel, showing past World Cup matches, 29 live games from Qatar, and replays of all 64 games — Tubi — the free and ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox — today announced that it's fired up a “FIFA World Cup FAST Channel.”
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Axios:
An analysis of 82 major US publishers: their largest collective following is on Twitter, followed by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok — Twitter is still the place where media publishers collectively have the largest audiences, followed by Facebook and Instagram …
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@hernandezma5, @kerrymflynn, @jason_kint, @rasmus_kleis and Media Voices
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT Cooking plans to sell $95 at-home cooking kits curated by guest chefs on The New York Times store, to grow revenue and boost readership for the recipe site — The kits offer a new avenue to increase revenue and readership for the paper's subscription cooking site.
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Observer, @alexweprin and New York Times
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Bergen on his book “Like, Comment, Subscribe”, chronicling YouTube's evolution from a scrappy startup to a pivotal part of Google and social media — Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box … YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it's such a black box …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at making web platforms monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, and other objectionable behaviors.
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Techdirt, Gizmodo, Washington Post and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu, if Disney would sell; Disney's CEO has said he wants Comcast's third — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called Hulu a “phenomenal business” — and said that if Disney were willing to sell it …
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Sarah John / Teen Vogue:
Q&A with Jack Corbett, who produces TikToks for NPR's Planet Money, on explaining complex and weird economics topics via a platform first known for dance videos — Corbett, 25, is a producer on NPR's Planet Money and a TikTok wunderkind. — Jack Corbett has been a producer …
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