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Chloe Berger / Fortune:
The NYT faces criticism for its sympathetic Elizabeth Holmes profile, which glossed over the potentially massive consequences of her fraud — Elizabeth Holmes, the former entrepreneur who was convicted of one of the biggest frauds in business history, swapped out her trademark black turtleneck …
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Axios:
Sources: NBCUniversal is finalizing a settlement with CNBC's Hadley Gamble, who is leaving the company and whose complaint led to CEO Jeff Shell's firing — NBCUniversal is finalizing a settlement with CNBC senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble, sources tell Axios.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AMC Networks Q1: revenue up 0.7% YoY to $717M, operating income down 0.8% YoY to $173M, US ad sales down 20% YoY; streaming subs fell to 11.5M from 11.8M in Q4 — This drop in subs follows a slight increase of 700,000 paid streaming customers between Q3 and Q4 of last year.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Crypto outlet Blockworks raised $12M at a $135M post-money valuation led by 10T Holdings to further develop its nascent research and data analytics offering — Blockworks, a media company that covers cryptocurrency for professionals, has raised $12 million at a $135 million post-money valuation …
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J. R. Moehringer / New Yorker:
The ghostwriter of Prince Harry's memoir Spare on becoming a ghostwriter, gaining a new perspective on the tabloids after the UK media covered him, and more — Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg voluntarily dismisses one of her lawsuits against the network; her lawyer says she intends to refile in the coming weeks — The lawsuit, brought by Abby Grossberg, accused the cable network of pressuring her to lie in a deposition.
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over a suspicion of bots posing as human listeners — Platform cracks down on bots posing as listeners as flood of content rattles music industry
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
How Something Awful plans to archive millions of Imgur images by May 15, the deadline for Imgur deleting nudity, porn, and “old, unused, and inactive content” — A long-running web community enlisted its goons to stop an Imgur extinction event.
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta tests paying Facebook creators based on public Reels' performance, instead of ad earnings, and plans to roll out payouts to Instagram in the coming weeks — Meta is testing a new payout model for its Ads on Reels monetization program that pays creators based on the performance of their public Reels …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp. reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $4.08B and a $50M loss, primarily due to the Dominion settlement; ad revenue rose 43% YoY 1.86B due to the Super Bowl — The Super Bowl helped Fox's advertising revenue improve by 43%. — The high-profile settlement between Fox Corp …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Nexstar reports Q1 net income down 65% YoY to $88M, net revenue up 3.9% YoY to $1.26B, and record digital revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$92M, thanks to the CW — Nexstar reported its first-quarter 2023 earnings Tuesday, revealing its overall ad sales were down 6% year-over-year …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules GB News breached the Broadcasting Code for a second time when the network aired “unopposed” claims made by Naomi Wolf about the COVID-19 vaccine — Ofcom said Dr Naomi Wolf promoted “a serious conspiracy theory without challenge or context”.
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The Pulitzer Prizes:
List of 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners, including WSJ for Investigative Reporting, WaPo for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting — New York, NY (May 8, 2023) — Columbia University today announces the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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