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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $23.51B, vs. $23.37B est., direct-to-consumer revenue up 13% YoY to $5.3B, and operating loss rose $0.5B to $1.1B — Overall, Disney posted revenue of $23.51 billion (up 8%) and adjusted earnings per share of 99 cents for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2022 (Disney's Q1 of fiscal year 2023).
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney cuts its workforce by 7,000, or 3.2% of its ~220,000 global headcount, as the company tries to save $5.5B in costs, including $2.5B in non-content costs
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Tyler Wornell / NewsNation:
NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert was freed from jail late February 8 after being arrested giving a live report at Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's press conference — Preston Swigart, a photographer who was with Lambert, said Lambert was approached by police who asked him to stop talking.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times reports Q4 revenue up 12.3% YoY to $667.5M, 2022 revenue up 11.3% YoY to $2.3B, 2022 operating profit of $347.9M, and 9.6M paying subscribers — The company said it added more than a million digital subscribers in 2022, bringing its total number of paying subscribers to 9.6 million.
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Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow Center analysis: ~4,000 journalists at US outlets tweeted 3% less per day on average after Elon Musk's takeover; those at right-leaning outlets tweeted more — b — New research from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism into the habits of journalists on Twitter during …
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David Friend / Canadian Press:
Netflix rolls out its long-anticipated password sharing rules in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain; other countries will be added in the next few months — Under new rules, premium and standard account holders will be given option to add extra members for $7.99 per month
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery plans to keep a standalone Discovery+ service after launching a streaming service that combines HBO Max and Discovery+ content — Move comes amid concerns that some Discovery+ subscribers might not want to move to upcoming pricier, bigger platform
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US House Oversight Committee members questioned three former Twitter executives about suppressing accounts, tweets, and the New York Post's Hunter Biden story — A congressional hearing today promises a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Over 200 staff represented by NBC News Digital's union walked off the job for 24 hours on February 9 to protest the outlet cutting seven union staff in January — It's the latest major labor action to strike a national news organization in recent months as the media industry faces headwinds and cut-backs.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish's Sling TV rebrands Sling Free to Sling Freestream, which will carry 210 free channels, 41K on-demand titles, and expand further by the end of spring — Sling TV, the internet-streaming division of Dish Network, is doubling down on free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) and free …
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google confirms that AI-generated content isn't against its Search guidelines, but using AI content to manipulate search results ranking violates its policies — AI is set to change the game in some big ways in the near future, and AI-generated content is one of the more controversial elements.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Judges including Clarence Thomas propose weakening free speech defenses from 1964's New York Times v. Sullivan case; Congress should pass the defenses into law — For all the misleading claims about “free speech under attack” in place where it is definitively not under attack (i.e. …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Ozy, which imploded in 2021 and is facing US federal investigations over a misleading investor pitch, is raising money again, pitching itself as a “hip” brand — Ozy, the youth-focused media company that imploded in 2021 over a misleading pitch to potential investors …
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