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Rahat Sandhu / Reuters:
Vice files for bankruptcy and agrees to sell its assets to some lenders, including Fortress and Soros Fund, for ~$225M; assets and liabilities are $500M to $1B — Vice Media Group, popular for websites such as Vice and Motherboard, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday to engineer …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A history of Vice Media, which raised $1.6B+, was valued at $5.7B at its peak in 2017, and owns a slew of assets, including Refinery29, Virtue, and Vice Studios
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A.G. Sulzberger / Columbia Journalism Review:
The New York Times' publisher examines the value of journalistic independence and objectivity, which he says are only achieved by being prepared to upset people — The debate around “objectivity”—if that's even the right word, anymore—has become among the most contested in journalism.
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Jonathan Lai / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A cyberattack over the weekend stopped the print edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer in the largest disruption since 1996; restoration timelines are unclear — The Philadelphia Inquirer and outside cybersecurity experts continued Sunday to scramble to restore systems after an apparent …
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Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Nielsen: CNN averaged 335K viewers during Friday's primetime, two days after Trump's town hall, behind Newsmax's 357K, MSNBC's 1.1M, and Fox News' 1.4M viewers — CNN pulled on average 335,000 viewers — 18,000 less than Newsmax — CNN might have earned itself a rare primetime ratings win …
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Wall Street Journal:
The NFL strikes a deal, sources say worth ~$110M, to have Peacock carry a playoff game next season, the first time a postseason game would stream exclusively — Deal marks first time an NFL playoff game will mostly be available on a streaming service — The National Football League …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Jimmy Finkelstein debuts his free-to-read digital news outlet The Messenger, which reportedly aims to generate $100M+ in 2024 revenue and hire ~550 journalists — The Messenger aims to make $100m in revenue next year with up to 550 journalists. — Jimmy Finkelstein's digital news start …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
The Guardian EIC Katharine Viner says the outlet's investigative team has grown “about four times” since 2015 and plans to launch a US investigations team soon — Katharine Viner said The Guardian's is “a really inspiring model for investigative journalism”.
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
The Irish Times apologizes for running an opinion piece on May 11 about women's use of fake tan that was submitted by a hoaxer who created the article using AI — The piece ran on 11 May and accused people who use fake tan of mocking those with naturally dark skin
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Sources: a handful of Fox anchors have reached out to Tucker Carlson, expressing interest in joining his Twitter venture once their contracts are up — On April 26, Carlson spoke by phone with one of Fox Corp.'s eight board members, who told the host that his recent benching was a condition …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MoffettNathanson: US pay TV users fell 7% YoY to 75.5M in Q1 2023, with household penetration at 58.5%, the lowest level since 1992; only YouTube TV grew in Q1 — As streaming video continues its ascendancy, cable, satellite and internet TV providers in the U.S. turned in their worst subscriber losses …
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Jared Newman / Fast Company:
Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin's Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500K 55-inch 4K HDR TVs, which have a second screen for constantly showing ads, in 2023 — Would you take a free TV if it constantly ran banner ads beneath everything you watched? — That's the proposition for Telly …
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BBC:
In a money laundering case, UK judges rule the BBC could reveal the identity of Tory donor Javad Marandi, a press freedom milestone as privacy laws tighten — A top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party.
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