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Eva Mathews / Reuters:
Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units — Music streaming firm Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) plans to cut 6% of its workforce, the company said on Monday …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The unprofitable Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, and Time rely on their billionaire owners' goodwill to survive while trying new business models — Starting a decade ago, a generation of new-money billionaires rode to the rescue of American journalism:
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BBC:
The UK Commissioner for Public Appointments William Shawcross to review the process behind Richard Sharp's hiring as BBC Chair in addition to a BBC board review — The process of hiring BBC chairman Richard Sharp is to be reviewed by the Commissioner of Public Appointments William Shawcross.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
BBC chair Richard Sharp says he's asked the BBC board to review any potential conflicts of interest over his reported role in securing a loan for Boris Johnson
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Hamish Morrison / The National:
Report: BBC chairman Richard Sharp helped Boris Johnson secure an £800,000 loan in 2020, just weeks before the then-prime minister recommended Sharp for the job
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Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
Sources: Samsung is considering launching its free TV Plus streaming service on third-party smart TVs and is approaching some rival manufacturers about the idea — Move FAST and make money … To grow the audience of its free TV Plus streaming service, Samsung is considering a move …
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The Streamable, @astaniscia86, @jank0@sfba.social and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Friends and colleagues of Deadline founder Nikki Finke, who died in October 2022, recall her last years and try to make sense of Hollywood's brashest chronicler — Was Nikki Finke a genius or a monster? Friends and colleagues try to make sense of the entertainment industry's brashest chronicler.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A look at Informed, an app that curates and bundles articles from FT, NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and other partners, which raised a €5M seed round and costs £52 per year — Paywalled publishers such as the Financial Times, Economist, Bloomberg and NYT are on board.
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@informed_app, @janebsinger and @johnmcm1
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Netflix is well-positioned due to a low debt load, huge scale, and first mover advantage; long-term success still ultimately relies on making compelling content — Netflix's moment of greatest peril is, in retrospect, barely visible in the company's stock chart:
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@stratechery, @gibsonbiddle, @dhmontgomery, @thecompoundnews and The Guardian
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Reuters:
Prominent Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo's body was found Sunday, five days after being abducted, a sign of the perils of reporting in the country — The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist was found on Sunday near the capital Yaounde five days after he was abducted …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
SCOTUS asks the Biden administration for its views on the constitutionality of Florida's and Texas' social media laws, likely putting off a decision until 2024 — The laws, enacted by Florida and Texas in response to conservative complaints about censorship, have been challenged under the First Amendment.
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Fox News, Reuters and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Emily Gould / The Cut:
An interview with fitness writer Casey Johnston on amassing 21,000 subscribers for her She's a Beast newsletter, her book, rejecting Substack's deal, and more — In a TikTok video she made to promote Liftoff, her beginners' step-by-step weight-lifting manual, fitness writer Casey Johnston demonstrates …
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@choire, @thecut, @libbycwatson and @caseyjohnston
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
How artists Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and Sarah Andersen found each other due to their AI concerns and sued Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt — “This [tech] effectively destroys an entire career path.” — Last year, Kelly McKernan, a 36-year-old artist from Nashville …
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Boing Boing, @markyarm, @libshipwreck, @pranavdixit, The Register and How to “Keep Pace” …, more at Techmeme »
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Chris Shaw, editorial director of the UK's ITN, is stepping down after 25 years; Shaw worked at ITV News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, and ITN Productions — ITN's CEO called Shaw “one of the most talented editorial minds to have ever worked across ITN”.
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