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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada — Company to become latest streamer to lift fees; Disney weighs launching new live-sports tier abroad — plans to raise the price …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Meta VP of Media Partnerships Campbell Brown says she's stepping down from the role in the fall but staying as a consultant, as Meta backs away from news — Campbell Brown, the veteran TV anchor who led Meta's foray into news, is leaving the company, according to an internal note obtained by Axios.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month — European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company's pitch to regulators
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at the scoop wars between NBA reporters Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania, Woj and Shams' impact on other beat reporters and usefulness to the league — In a battle for scoops and attention, it's ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski vs. his former protégé, the Athletic's Shams Charania.
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Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Police say freelance journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed inside his Philadelphia home at age 39; Kruger wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer and others — A Philadelphia journalist was shot and killed inside his Point Breeze home overnight, police said, after a person with a gun entered …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
In honor of “Mean Girls” day, Paramount makes the movie available on TikTok for free in 23 clips — Happy “Mean Girls” day, to all who celebrate! — In observance of so-called Mean Girls Day, Paramount Pictures launched an official account for “Mean Girls” on TikTok …
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Screen Rant, IndieWire, Decider, IGN, Deadline, @flitter, The Verge, @wagatwe.bsky.social, Fox News and Insider
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Wattpad replaces its Paid Stories paywall with a freemium tier letting users read some chapters free and buy others; Premium+ subscribers get two stories/month — After launching its “Paid Stories” program in 2019, the social storytelling platform Wattpad is now replacing it with a new freemium model called …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paris Hilton and her company 11:11 Media sign a partnership with X to create four original video content programs per year to promote X's Live Shopping product — Paris Hilton is getting her X on. — The influencer and entrepreneur — who has 16.6 million followers on X …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix's ad chief Jeremi Gorman, who oversaw the company's ad tier launch, exits the company, replaced by Netflix VP of Studio Operations Amy Reinhard — After just more than a year at Netflix booting up the streamer's ad business, Jeremi Gorman is leaving the company.
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Adweek, The Wrap, The Information, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
A profile of The Examination, a new nonprofit global health outlet with 12 employees and a partnership model to work with outlets based in areas it covers — One of The Examination's first priorities is boosting and diversifying its funding. — The executive director …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: in a letter, DirecTV warned Warner Bros. Discovery that programming on CNN's new streaming channel risks violating the contract with DirecTV — The concern, raised in a letter, signals that cable and satellite providers may push back against streaming services full of shows they're already paying for.
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MediaPost, The Streamable, Variety, The Daily Beast, @pkafka, @edmundlee, @hikingradiomatt, @lizrhoffman, @dylanbyers, @tigerbeat, @sherman4949, @pkafka and Cord Cutters News
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block crawling access for OpenAI and Google, as OpenAI removes ChatGPT's September 2021 training cut-off — Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block GPTBot and Google Bard crawler ASAP. — ChatGPT's threat …