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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Christiane Amanpour says she had a “robust exchange of views” with CNN CEO Chris Licht over Trump's town hall, becoming the first CNN anchor to dissent publicly — It has been one week since CNN's town hall with Donald Trump — and the fierce fallout stemming from the event is still reverberating.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer the channel as a streaming service in coming years by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals — Internal project code-named ‘flagship’ lays out shift in coming years, as talks with leagues and cable partners have begun
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney cancels plans to build an Orlando office complex and move 2,000+ workers from California to Florida; sources: the DeSantis feud influenced the decision — A new office complex, and relocation of a division from California, would have created more than 2,000 jobs but was scuttled …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines” online, with more information on how reporters did their work, after experimenting with them since January 2022 — “This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It's more colloquial, it's more plain-spoken.”
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Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Real estate billionaire Sam Zell, whose disastrous $8.3B leveraged buyout of Tribune Co. led to layoffs of 4,200 people and bankruptcy, dies at 81 — Sam Zell, the billionaire investor who called himself “the Grave Dancer” for his bets on distressed assets, including a losing wager that drove the Tribune Co. into bankruptcy, has died.
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Brian Fung / CNN:
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh — Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Requiring Big Tech to pay news companies is the wrong approach: it ties news companies' success to that of tech giants and doesn't guarantee more money for news — It's no longer controversial to claim that Big Tech is a parasite on the news business. But there's still a raging controversy …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
In Andy Warhol Foundation vs. Goldsmith, SCOTUS sides with the photographer, who says Warhol violated copyright by using her photo to create images of Prince — - The Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a copyright dispute over the use of a celebrity photographer's image of the musician Prince.
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Associated Press:
A Tunisian court sentences a journalist to five years in prison for refusing to reveal his sources after publishing details of a counterterrorism operation — A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism operation …
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Committee to Protect … and Agence France-Presse
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix shares jump 10%+ after the streamer reported it has almost 5M global monthly active users for its ad-supported plan introduced in early November 2022 — Shares of Netflix jumped more than 10% Thursday on news that the streamer had signed up almost 5 million customers …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix says its ad tier has nearly 5M MAUs globally six months after launch and makes up 25%+ of signups in countries with the option; the median age is 34
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Institute for Nonprofit News:
Institute for Nonprofit News executive director and CEO Sue Cross is stepping down by the end of 2023 after eight years at the helm — Veteran journalist and news leader Sue Cross will step down as executive director & CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) by the end of this year, INN announced today.
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American Press Institute, @ckrewson and @d_holli
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
TikTok is testing an integration with music streaming services that lets users tap a button to add songs to a music app; so far, Apple Music is the only option — “Short-form video that doesn't lead anywhere is the most dangerous thing I've seen the music business face in a long time,” …
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Variety:
A look at CEO salaries and their year-over-year changes at Disney, Netflix, Comcast, Apple, WBD, Paramount, Fox, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet, as they do layoffs — Economists are fretting about a recession. Media stocks are in the toilet. Layoffs are being enacted monthly as a spirit of cut …
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@zaackhunt, @variety, @variety and Techdirt
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