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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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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Disney will start purging dozens of Disney+ and Hulu shows on May 26; the company announced a $1.5B-$1.8B impairment charge at its last earnings call — Disney is starting to pull content from streaming, with dozens of series and specials slated to leave Disney+ and Hulu on May 26, Deadline has learned.
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines” online to offer more information on how reporters did their work, after running the experiment 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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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer users its channel for streaming in the 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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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Christiane Amanpour says she and CNN CEO Chris Licht exchanged “robust” views over Donald Trump's town hall, becoming the first CNN anchor to publicly dissent — 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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Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Real estate billionaire Sam Zell, whose $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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Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Requiring Big Tech to pay news outlets is the wrong approach, as their destinies will become linked, an increase in news investment isn't guaranteed, and more — 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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New York Times:
A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more — A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
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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
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
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
In Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, SCOTUS sides with the photographer, who says Warhol violated copyright by using her 1981 photo to create Prince artwork — - 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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Mahender Singh Manral / The Indian Express:
Indian authorities arrest freelance defense journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi, accusing him of espionage and of being in possession of “classified secret documents” — A source said initially the Delhi Police had lodged an FIR against Raghuvanshi, and the investigation was later transferred to CBI …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p — Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
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Associated Press:
A Tunisian appeals court sentences a journalist to five years in prison for refusing to reveal his sources after publishing counterterrorism operation details — A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism operation …
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