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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Internal memo: Vice Media executives plan to lay off hundreds of its 900+ employees over the next week, and the company is in advanced talks to sell Refinery29 — Vice Media, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, is planning to cut hundreds of its more than 900 employees, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Wall Street Journal:
Internal memo: Vice Media “will no longer publish content on vice.com” and may partner with established media companies to distribute its content — Cuts follow failed effort by owner Fortress to sell embattled digital publisher and its brands — Vice Media said it would stop …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WBD reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $10.3B, adjusted EBITDA down 5% YoY to $2.5B, 97.7M global streaming subscribers, and a $103M streaming profit for 2023 — The owner of the TNT and TBS cable networks,. the Warner Bros. studio and the Max streaming service reported a loss of $400 million …
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Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap:
WBD's David Zaslav says the joint venture sports app in development with Fox and Disney will include the ability to bundle with Max — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO confirms that joint venture app with Fox and Disney will access non-sports content — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed Friday …
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU — - Reddit on Thursday filed to go public. — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, giving Google access to the Reddit Data API to surface more Reddit content and train AI models
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
S-1: the Newhouse family's Advance owns 30.1% of Reddit, Tencent owns 11%, and Sam Altman owns 8.7%; post-IPO, the Newhouse family will hold two board seats
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
NPR affiliate WAMU is shutting down local news site Dcist and laying off 15 employees to focus on audio and plans to add 10 new positions — - “We're making the choice to invest in what we're better at than anyone else in this town, and that's audio,” Pulley-Hayes said.
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with studio owner Tyler Perry, who says he's putting an $800M studio expansion in Atlanta on hold after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI's Sora — The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, “I feel like everybody in the industry …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Tim Burke is charged with 14 crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News, including six counts of accessing a protected computer without authorization — Burke, a nationally recognized media consultant, is scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday in Tampa.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Google confirms “a small subset of users” have been temporarily unable to access the News tab filter in search results pages as part of ongoing testing — News publishers are worried — with good reason — about changes coming to Google Search.
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Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
A look at Matthew Belloni's What I'm Hearing newsletter, which covers the structures of Hollywood's business and has become a must-read among the power elite — How Matthew Belloni became the must-read columnist for Hollywood's executive class. — The Hollywood journalist Matthew Belloni …
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Bloomberg:
Bill Ackman hires a law firm, which demands “immediate retractions and corrections” from Business Insider in a “final attempt to avoid litigation” — - Law firm issues demand letter on behalf of Ackman's wife — News outlet published stories saying wife committed plagiarism
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New York Times:
Instagram's news influencers, like Jessica Yellin with 650K+ followers and Mo News with 438K, have become popular even as Meta de-emphasizes political content — In this year's presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.”
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@hannah_flom, @sapna, @grynbaum, Dale L. Cressman, PhD on LinkedIn and The Information, more at Techmeme »
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