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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roku reports more than 70M accounts globally at the end of 2022, up 16.5% from 2021, and says streaming hours reached 87.4B in 2022, up 19% YoY — The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming hours reached 23.9 billion …
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Roku, @tvgrimreaper, WORLD SCREEN, Next TV, Collider, Broadband TV News, TechCrunch, Deadline, Light Reading, The Wrap, MediaPost, CNET, Media Play News and The Streamable
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Roku let Burrow, a channel dedicated to QAnon conspiracy theories, launch despite seemingly violating its content rules; Burrow got 300K+ installs in 20 days — Roku may be making money on the channel via ads, despite its rules against such content — Streaming platform Roku has allowed …
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CNET, @cnet, @ogreporter and @nandoodles
Camila DeChalus / Washington Post:
The US House allowed C-SPAN to let cameras roam the chamber until a speaker is elected, showing loud booing, animated conversations, sleeping kids, and more — Loud booing. Animated conversations in the aisles of the House chamber. Sleeping children. Lawmakers scrolling on their phones.
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CNN, VICE, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Boston Globe, Media Matters for America, National Review, Slate, @wsj, @seungminkim, @brianstelter, Newser, @jaketapper, The Week, @clancyreports, @bysarahkrouse, @kejames, New York Times, @karly_ruth_luvv, @jackmjenkins, @motherboard, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, New York Magazine, PolitiFact, The Atlantic, The Hollywood Reporter, New Republic, Insider and The Streamable
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Pop-Up Magazine shuts down after hosting live storytelling shows since its 2009 launch, citing the pandemic and economic downturn and affecting 18+ employees — The live events publisher explored a sale or investment prior to closing — The live performance publisher Pop-Up Magazine …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Vince McMahon plans to return to WWE to pursue a sale of the business, after retiring as CEO and chairman in July 2022 amid sexual misconduct claims against him — Vince McMahon, the majority owner and former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., WWE 2.26%increase …
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CNET, Vince McMahon, Fox News, corporate.wwe.com, MediaPost, @laurenthomas, The Wrap, CNBC, Variety, The Streamable, Sportico, Insider, Next TV, Deadline, WFLA-TV, Observer, TMZ.com, @davidbix, @tedgruber, @davidbix, @jack_murley, @claytravis, @kellycrandall, @asukasmox, @iamjohnpollock, @wcwworldwide, @ourand_sbj, @therajgiri, @otd_in_wwe, @glennrubenstein, @laurenthomas, @laurenthomas, @_denisesalcedo, @brandolightshed, IGN, New York Daily News, CNN, Front Office Sports, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, The Comeback and Bloomberg
Dan Belson / Capital Gazette:
Families of slain Capital Gazette staff settle their suit against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing, where they claimed the shooting was “preventable” — The families of Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters, along with some Capital employees …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist's fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated” — Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
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Insider, @geoffreyfowler, @ron_fournier, @markfollman, @iansherr, @sub8u, @senmarkey, @_cingraham, @deanobeidallah, @geoffreyfowler, @senmarkey, The Wrap and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT adds an arbitration clause to its TOS, following in the footsteps of Bloomberg, Politico, and others, despite coverage detailing the ills of the practice — Few outlets can match the New York Times when it comes to exposing the pitfalls of forced arbitration.
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@fpbland, CoinDesk and @timothynoah1
Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Hundreds of artists urge the US Copyright Office to approve a proposal to ensure that songwriters who regain control of their music collect streaming royalties — Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, Sting and a slew of other musicians are throwing their support behind a new federal copyright rule aimed …
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@billboard and @kayhanley
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Universal Music Group sues Triller, alleging the short-form video app has not paid its invoices for the past nine months, violating their licensing agreement — Universal Music Group sued Triller on Thursday, alleging that the video-sharing app has failed to make payments for the last nine months …
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Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, Rolling Stone and Music Ally
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times has yet to hire a media columnist, a year after Ben Smith left; sources: the NYT has talked to Sarah Ellison, Brian Stelter, and Dylan Byers — One of the highest perches in the industry has been vacant for a year, leaving journalists inside and outside the paper puzzled about management's lack of urgency.
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@charlottetklein, @risj_oxford, @spj_tweets, @vanityfair, @nbj914 and @joshgerstein
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A profile of New Lines, an online-only magazine with a remote staff of 25 focused on local reporting from around the world, now printing quarterly editions — “Often when an editor declines or dilutes a good story, it's to say it's too in the weeds. I always joke, 'What's wrong with weeds?'"
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@bysurbhigupta, @hxhassan, @rashaalaqeedi, @kshaheen and @hanaatameez
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