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The Walt Disney Company:
Disney plans to acquire NBCU's 33% stake in Hulu, gaining full ownership, and expects to pay ~$8.61B, representing NBCU's share of a $27.5B guaranteed floor — The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it will acquire the 33% stake in Hulu, LLC held by Comcast Corp.'s (NASDAQ …
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Ad intelligence service MediaRadar acquires Vivvix, a Kantar ad intelligence unit; MediaRadar tracks $200B+ in annual ad spend and has 20K customers — Exit Content Preview — MediaRadar has acquired Vivvix, Kantar Group's North American advertising intelligence business, executives tell Axios.
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Mark Caro / Local News Initiative:
Q&A with Ken Doctor on the Press Forward's philanthropic commitment to invest $500M in local news, his local digital news outlet Lookout Santa Cruz, and more — Veteran journalist Ken Doctor had been analyzing “Newsonomics” for many years when he jumped back into the game to launch …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least 27 local and international journalists covering recent political rallies in Bangladesh's Dhaka were attacked by demonstrators and the police — Bangladesh authorities must immediately and impartially investigate the assaults on at least 27 journalists covering recent political rallies …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube begins raising Premium's price globally, including in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Germany, Poland, and Turkey, after raising the US price in July — Following the United States in July, YouTube Premium's international price increase is starting.
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Gerardo Arbaiza / Reuters:
El Salvador's Congress repeals a law that criminalized the publication of gang messages, which critics said unjustly targeted journalists; no arrests were made — El Salvador's Congress repealed a law on Wednesday that criminalized the publication of gang messages, as ruling party leaders declared victory …
Eve Sampson / ICIJ:
Q&A with Patrick Forbes, the director of “The Price of Truth” documentary on Dmitry Muratov, on his attempts to keep Russia's last independent newspaper going — The film follows Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov as he tries to keep the country's last independent newspaper in operation.
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Amanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge:
A critical look at the SEO industry: users complain that Google isn't as useful anymore, some SEO experts say gaming Google's algorithm is now harder, and more — As the public begins to believe Google isn't as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Economist Director of Podcasts John Prideaux on putting all the outlet's podcasts behind its paywall, except its biggest, The Intelligence — The Economist's biggest podcast, The Intelligence, will be the only one remaining outside the paywall.
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Salem Media Group, Inc.:
Salem Media partners with Just The News to add podcasts by John Solomon, Victor Davis Hanson, and Bauer and Rose to the Salem Podcast Network — Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM) announced today a new partnership between the Salem Podcast Network and Just The News to place the podcasts of John Solomon …
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
David Mitchell, former editor and co-publisher of a tiny newspaper that exposed the Synanon cult and won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, dies at 79 — His tiny California newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its exposé of Synanon, a renowned drug rehabilitation program that had turned into a violent operation.
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Joe Duball / IAPP:
The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta's use of personal data for behavioral ads across the EU member states and EEA countries within two weeks — An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe. Changes are coming to adtech's approach to privacy …
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