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Sam Jones / Financial Times:
Memo: BI CEO Barbara Peng says an internal review found reporting on plagiarism in Neri Oxman's MIT thesis to be rigorous and fair; Axel Springer stands by BI — Owner Axel Springer says it ‘stands by’ publication amid dispute with academic and her husband Bill Ackman
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Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz:
Luminate: Hindi songs' share of the top 10K global tracks grew from 6.1% in 2022 to 7.8% in 2023; English fell from 62.1% to 54.9%, Spanish from 11.8% to 10.1% — Bollywood music and indie musicians — hip-hop artists especially — are fueling the Hindi music streaming phenomena
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Kevin Systrom / Artifact News:
Kevin Systrom says news sharing app Artifact will shut down after concluding that “the market opportunity isn't big enough to warrant continued investment” — To our Artifact Users and Partners: — We've made the decision to wind down operations of the Artifact app.
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying the outlet doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material — After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Roxi CEO Rob Lewis on launching the UK-based music video streaming service in the US, licensing deals, generating revenue, key competitors, and more — “Building a global a global music video streaming service is way harder than building a Netflix or Disney+,” says Rob Lewis.
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
DirecTV and Tegna reach a carriage deal to end the programming blackout of 64 Tegna stations that affected ~5M US customers since November 30, 2023 — DirecTV and major station group Tegna have struck a carriage deal, ending a programming blackout that began November 30 and affected roughly 5 million customers across the U.S..
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Nielsen: Peacock's exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the “most-streamed event in US history”, with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak average — The streams we were watching mostly held up, if you saw the game, how was the experience for you?
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Apple's September 2023 change to how its Podcasts app automatically downloaded episodes has dramatically curtailed download numbers for some podcasts — The News — Apple has quietly tightened its reporting of how many people listen to podcasts, sending shock waves through …
Washington Post:
Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic who spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive wit, dies at 79 — He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
An interview with GB News' Christopher Hope and Gloria De Piero on joining the broadcaster, launching their new show, being “rooted in the viewers”, and more — The pair have launched a new PMQs show and say GB News is “rooted in the viewers” not spads.
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Washington Post:
HBO led Emmy nominations for 17 of the past 20 years, but its dominance may not last as hit shows end and the company's rebrand to Max seeks a broader audience — Once again, HBO has the most nominations of any network or platform going into the 75th Emmys awards ceremony.
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@jeffjarvis@threads.net, @meowzawowza_, @meowzawowza_, @ajmckay and @orphanednebula
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneering TV and radio journalist who was the first woman to have an on-air news role in LA when she joined KSTL-TV in 1951, died at 101 — Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneering TV and radio journalist who worked with Edward R. Murrow at CBS News and was a fixture on the air in Los Angeles for decades, has died.
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