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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Disney now owns 100% of streaming tech company BAMTech after paying $900M for MLB's 15% stake in November 2022; Disney acquired a majority stake in 2017 — Disney acquired a majority stake in the tech company in 2017, and has used it to power its streaming services.
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Elaine Díaz Rodríguez / LION Publishers:
LION Publishers' sustainability audits show more independent news founders are focusing on revenue and audience research to deal with some industry challenges — Takeaways from the LION-GNI Sustainability Audits and Funding program — Independent news founders are seeing …
Semafor:
Sources: CoinDesk, which has ~$50M in annual revenue, attracts takeover interest from PE firms, rivals, and others; a party offered $300M which was deemed low — for Semafor Business: Follow the money (and the memes.) Your Email addressSign Up — THE SCOOP
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Wall Street Journal:
AMC Networks plans to lay off 20% of its staff, or around 200 people, and CEO Christina Spade steps down abruptly, after joining in September 2022 — Company has been under pressure from cord-cutting as Americans turn to streaming services — AMC Networks Inc. said it is planning to lay off …
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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
People can help protect democracy by supporting their local news outlets, rather than spending time on platforms and TV networks that deepen partisan divides — Like a lot of folks, I have been thinking quite a bit lately about how to shore up our democracy. We voted in November, and that seems to have gone pretty well.
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Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2022 for users, adding a “music personality” feature, and says Joe Rogan, Emma Chamberlain, and others were its top podcasters — Spotify Wrapped is here, and with it, a slew of year-end charts, data, and graphics ripe for sharing.
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Mark Kennedy / Associated Press:
Apple's 2022 listener data shows the rise of non-English-language songs: 21 non-English songs were in the global Top 100, more than double the number in 2021 — “Stay,” the smash hit by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber topped Apple Music's global song chart in 2022 as the giant music streamer released …
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Platformer:
Internal messages: Twitter's EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY and weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees — Revenues are in free fall, employees say. Can Musk turn the tide? — and Zoë Schiffer
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Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Memo: Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke will oversee MGM effective immediately, including scripted TV and film, distribution, and creative marketing — Shocking no one, on Tuesday night Amazon informed employees that Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke will now also oversee MGM …
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The Intercept:
Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed to Elon Musk — Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network's new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Research: women of color are “completely locked out” of the UK news industry and face “extraordinary exclusion” in the US, both in leadership and news coverage — Women of colour are “almost completely locked out” of the UK news industry making them “effectively invisible”, a new report has found.
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Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Pinterest plans to end its creator rewards program, launched in 2021, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed certain goals — Pinterest is ending its creator rewards program, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed goals such as hitting certain engagement metrics, The Information is first to report.
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