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Websites that shut down make it hard for journalists to preserve writing clips, but maintaining a defunct site creates technical issues including security risks — Vice workers scrambled this week to save their work, just in case. Would keeping it online really cost so much?
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Vice leadership failed to act as responsible stewards of a good product, and instead paid themselves lavish salaries and burned through hundreds of millions — Vice was a good website. On Thursday it was killed by its private equity owners, in a characteristically cruel and sudden maneuver …
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Former TV news executives and others criticize Ofcom for allowing GB News to violate broadcasting impartiality rules by dragging its feet with investigations — Ofcom is accused of not treating all broadcasters the same and of dragging its feet with investigations into the rightwing channel
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Mediaite and The Media Leader
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UK's Ofcom delivers its roadmap for implementing the Media Bill, saying regulation of streaming services will not come into place in full for two years — Streamer regulation in the UK will not come into place in full for two years, Ofcom said today. — Delivering its roadmap for implementing …
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Australian businessman Kerry Stokes launches The Nightly, a daily online newspaper with backing from billionaires Katie Page, Chris Ellison, and Gina Rinehart — Billionaires Katie Page, Chris Ellison and Gina Rinehart are the key backers of Kerry Stokes' new daily online newspaper …
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Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey and Mumbrella
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A profile of Dale Anglin, first director of Press Forward, a philanthropic effort to invest $500M over five years in local news and aiming to raise $500M more — Dale R. Anglin has spent more than twenty years in the nonprofit sector, channeling millions of dollars to social service organizations.
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Media Nation, NewsLab, MediaPost, Inside the News in Colorado and @geisler_jill@threads.net
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While Netflix is profitable in South Korea, local rivals Tving and Wavve lost a combined ~$165M in 2023 and are reportedly in talks to merge — After years of pumping out hit shows, South Korea's biggest media companies are cutting back and consolidating to survive a global pullback in entertainment.
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CMU
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A look at possible effects of Walmart's Vizio purchase: a negative impact on Roku, for whom Walmart is a big retail partner, and Vizio's data unit shutting down — Big box bucks — Together with … Tuesday's news that Walmart is acquiring Vizio for $2.3 billion has the potential …
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Janko Roettgers on LinkedIn and Fast Company
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A preview of the NetChoice cases to be argued at SCOTUS on February 26, about the constitutionality of Texas and Florida laws regulating social media content — The ruling could impact other publishing industries and future social media regulation. … Social media companies have long …
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Reuters, Washington Post, Raw Story, New York Times, CNN, Politico, Kirk T. Schroder on LinkedIn, @lauren_feiner, The Hill and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
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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.
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Three years after Spotify's original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature — I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do this again. Last year, it seemed like there was no reason to believe Spotify would ever roll …
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Cord Cutters News lays off EIC Roger Cheng, who joined in July 2023, and two staff writers, as the outlet plans to focus more heavily on its YouTube channels — The publication favored by streamers will publish guides and focus on the production of YouTube videos moving forward.
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@cordcuttersnews, @shelbybrown91, @rogerwcheng and Cord Cutters News
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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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Forbes, @royprice, @lucas_shaw, @picklemaddierix, The Wrap, @jbflint, @richlightshed, @jbflint, @lmoses, The Hollywood Reporter, The Desk, CNBC, The Wrap and Warner Bros. Discovery
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