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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Bloomberg doesn't plan to cover staff's Twitter Blue verification and CNN says it's “highly unlikely”; Puck calls the cost an extension of its marketing budget — - Twitter is planning to require users to pay to keep their verification. — Insider asked 14 newsrooms whether …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Journalists rethink using Twitter due to uncertainty around identity verification and its utility for reporting; Twitter's traffic-boosting value has been minor — The complaints, fears and angst surrounding changes at troubled tech giant Twitter began unraveling on its own platform …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney misses on Q4 revenue, up 9% YoY to $20.15B vs. $21.24B est., but adds 12.1M Disney+ subscriptions for a total of 164.2M, vs. 160.45M est.; stock down 6%+ — - Disney reports earnings after the market closes on Tuesday. — The company will hold an earnings conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers …
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Media Partners Asia: Disney+ overtook Hulu as Japan's third largest streamer in Q3, with 3.6M subscribers, ahead of Amazon Prime Video's ~16.5M and Netflix's 7M — Disney+ was the biggest component of the growth in the Japanese streaming market in the July to September quarter.
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Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q1 revenue down 1% YoY to $2.48B, vs. $2.5B expected, boosted by its Dow Jones unit's subscription sales, helping partially offset ad weakness — News Corp (NWSA.O) missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as a prolonged weakness …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix bid on some ATP tennis tour streaming rights but dropped out and has considered bidding on other sports events or buying lower-profile leagues — Streaming giant eyes sports like tennis and surfing; Co-CEO Reed Hastings has been wary of rising costs for rights
Jon Keegan / The Markup:
A look at data brokers selling “comprehensive” profiles of potential voters to campaigns, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time auctions — Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar, which owns The Hill and a 75% stake in The CW, reports Q3 net revenue up 9.7% YoY to $1.27B and political ad revenue of $129.3M, up 84.3% from Q3 2018 — The TV station group will look for a mix of scripted and unscripted content and shows that “appeal to a broader audience” on the CW.
Thania Garcia / Variety:
Condé Nast sues Drake and 21 Savage over a fake Vogue cover that promoted their album, with the image posted on Instagram and fake Vogue copies spread in cities — Drake and 21 Savage have been sued by media company Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, over the fake magazine cover used to promote their new album “Her Loss.”
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David Gritten / BBC:
Iranian security forces made “credible” threats to two journalists for UK-based Persian-language TV channel Iran International, per parent company Volant Media — Two British-Iranian journalists for the UK-based Persian-language TV channel Iran International have been warned …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: The Recount has ~12 employees left after October's cuts, as the outlet tries to sell for a nominal sum after losing $10M on $1M in revenue in 2021 — Around a dozen staffers are left at The Recount, a video news startup that launched in 2018, after the company's latest round of cuts last month …
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