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Christine McCarthy, Disney's CFO since 2015, is stepping down; Kevin Lansberry, finance chief for parks business, will work as interim CFO starting July 1 — - Christine McCarthy will step down as Disney's chief financial officer. — She is taking family medical leave and will advise the company as it seeks a successor.
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Alex McCaskill, the Fox News producer who wrote the chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator”, has left the company — Sources identified the culprit to The Daily Beast as Alex McCaskill, a longtime producer on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
After a Fox News chyron called Biden a “wannabe dictator” who is “having his political rival arrested”, Fox says it was taken down immediately and addressed
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Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
The argument that paywalls are blocking access to quality news is flawed because paid content is not a new phenomenon and there is plenty of quality free news — PLUS: CNN is in denial — Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button:
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Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Email: Twitter blocks paid promotion of a campaign video by North Carolina Sen. Rachel Hunt, who is running for lieutenant governor, due to “abortion advocacy” — “The mention of abortion advocacy is the issue here,” a Twitter employee told North Carolina candidate Rachel Hunt, according to emails HuffPost reviewed.
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Insider EIC Nich Carlson tells staff that traffic and subscribers are down, the outlet plans to return its focus to business, the economy, and tech, and more — Insider EIC @nichcarlson addresses the newsroom post-strike, says “after a few years of drift,” the media company is returning to its core focus of business, economy, and tech coverage and becoming “the next-gen WSJ” [image]
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Jules Roscoe / VICE:
Invidious, an open-source “alternative front-end” for YouTube that removes tracking and ads, says YouTube sent a cease-and-desist letter over API violations — Invidious lets users browse YouTube without being tracked. Its developers say they won't make changes until they have to.
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@julesaroscoe and @motherboard, more at Techmeme »
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Guardian announces a global ban on gambling advertising, arguing that taking money from services that can lead to addiction is unethical — Ban will apply worldwide to all of media group's online and print outlets, including the Guardian, Observer, and Guardian Weekly
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
How a local news site founder and an ex-Microsoft engineer created an AI to listen to meetings and write usable summary articles, and how human nuance gets lost — “Is it ready for primetime, ready to be released to the masses? Absolutely not...But can it be done?
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: News Corp's HarperCollins and private-equity giant KKR are among the bidders for Simon & Schuster; second-round bids are due in mid-July — Simon & Schuster is pursuing a sale once again after the U.S. government blocked its attempted merger with Penguin Random House
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Publishers Weekly and @heybonanos
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
Sources: Disney+, which hasn't made an original content commission in Canada yet, pauses commissioning work in the country through 2023 and possibly into 2024 — Sources indicate that the Mouse House has put a pin in local programming from across its brands in Canada, and isn't actively commissioning.
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@amber_dowling and @hertzbarry
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Post launches an iOS app and says 440K+ users have joined the news-focused social network that lets users make micropayments for news from various publishers — One of many buzzy apps competing to be “the next Twitter,” Post launched its iOS app on Thursday.
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Kari Paul / The Guardian:
The CCDH estimates Google made $10M in two years from anti-abortion organizations' ads misdirecting users to “pregnancy crisis centers” that do not provide care — Study finds the search giant has profited since Roe was overturned from anti-abortion groups buying misleading search terms
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