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2:00 PM ET, May 18, 2023

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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.
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
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 over 10% Thursday on news that the streamer had signed up almost 5 million customers for its ad-supported plan within six months of its launch.
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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
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.
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.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
TikTok is testing a feature to integrate music streaming services via a button that lets users 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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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a two-year deadlock after Republicans opposed an earlier nominee  —  President Joe Biden intends to select veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez to serve on the Federal Communications Commission …
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.
Columbia Journalism School:
Columbia Journalism School announces a loan repayment assistance program to provide recent graduates working in nonprofit media up to $50K over five years  —  The program is the first of its kind for graduate journalism schools.  With its inception, Columbia continues to stake its claim …
Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
A NY court dismisses a 2020 defamation suit against Maxwell Tani, The Daily Beast, and Noah Shachtman filed by Carson Griffith, an editor hired to revive Gawker  —  - A defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast was dismissed by a New York appeals court.  — The suit was filed …
Matthew Keys / Fierce Video:
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch says the company still thinks cable and satellite TV offer the best consumer value and reach for its news and premium sports programs  —  Fox Tubi TV linear television sports  —  Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the media company still believes traditional cable …
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Reuters:
Several Polish news websites were hit by DDoS attacks, which a Polish minister says were carried out by Russian hacking groups
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024 and deprecate third-party cookies in H2 2024
Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times:
SAG-AFTRA asks its members to authorize a strike even before it starts negotiations with studios, set for June 7, to give it “maximum bargaining leverage”
Jaime Brooks / The Seat of Loss:
An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads on top-performing videos on TVs and says 150M+ unique US viewers watched YouTube or YouTube TV on TVs in December 2022
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Wall Street Journal:
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Associated Press:
Photographers pursued a car carrying Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after a NYC charity event on May 16, forcing them to briefly take refuge in a police station
Jo Yurcaba / NBC News:
Penguin Random House, PEN America, and others sue a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and LGBTQ topics after a teacher complained
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times launches New York Times Audio for iOS after ~1.5 years in private beta, offering short-form stories, daily news show The Headlines, and more