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8:20 AM ET, April 5, 2023

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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Court doc: David Pecker, then-CEO of National Enquirer's owner, agreed to help Trump's campaign in a 2015 meeting; Pecker later helped suppress negative stories  —  - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new details Tuesday about the role the National Enquirer's then-publisher played …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery is close to a deal for a Harry Potter TV show with one season based on each book, a cornerstone of HBO's new streaming strategy  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is close to a deal for a new online TV series based on Harry Potter, the best-selling young adult books …
Matt Novak / Forbes:
Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception  —  Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Despite Twitter's decline, reporters keep using it due to established audiences, the drama of Elon Musk's erratic leadership, and alternatives lacking features  —  Today, Donald Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a series …
Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter:
Many current and former Amazon executives, showrunners, and agents say Amazon Studios is confusing and frustrating; one showrunner says Studios has “no vision”  —  Despite ambitious bets like ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and the upcoming ‘Citadel,’ insiders complain that there's still …
Pew Research Center:
A survey finds men make up 83% of US journalists covering sports and 60% of those covering government and politics, while 64% of those covering health are women  —  The beats American journalists cover vary widely by gender and other factors, according to a new analysis of a Pew Research Center survey …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Tom Krazit, a former editor at now-defunct Protocol, bought Protocol's enterprise newsletter list of 20K+ emails to help launch Runtime, his newsletter on Ghost  —  A news organization shuts down, and its writers move to Substack while they're trying to decide what to do next: We've seen that before.
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers say WSJ's Evan Gershkovich faces steep odds in Russian court, including a secret trial, government influence, and uncertainty about access to his lawyer  —  WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich will face steep odds in Russian court that gives few means for defense
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
In a letter to the Delaware judge in the Dominion lawsuit, Fox News names Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity among witnesses to be made available at the trial  —  Attorneys named other hosts and executives as witnesses in the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems
Discussion: Reuters, @imtoblame, CNN and Mediaite
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Bob Iger says Disney is “not looking to license core Marvel, Disney, Pixar, or Star Wars” content to third parties but may “on occasion” license other content  —  Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company has reached a new stage of its evolution in streaming and will consider …
Discussion: The Streamable and Miami Herald
Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
How the FTC's efforts to severely limit noncompete clauses could help reporters, anchors, sportscasters, meteorologists, producers, editors, and others in media  —  Job-switching barriers are routine at TV stations, even for workers not on the air.  A proposed federal rule would curb the practice across all fields.
Amos Zeeberg / Wired:
How surveillance industry blog IPVM's investigations of Chinese mass face recognition systems caught the attention of US policymakers and national news outlets  —  Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
 
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Lucy Knight / The Guardian:
Book Depository, whose acquisition by Amazon in July 2011 sparked worries over Amazon's “stranglehold” on the UK book trade, is closing at the end of April 2023
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Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
FOIA docs: ICE used custom summonses 170K+ times from January 2016 to August 2022, seeking data from organizations, like to get outlets to reveal their sources
Remy Tumin / New York Times:
Nielsen: the 2023 NCAA women's basketball tournament final averaged 9.9M viewers, up 103% YoY; ESPN: the game was the most viewed college event ever on ESPN+
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
How Netflix, which long thought ad spending doesn't increase viewers, shifted its strategy under new marketing chief Marian Lee to push content that can “pop”
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live, previously called Locker Room, acquired as part of its €57M Betty Labs deal in March 2021