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Sara Fischer / Axios:
An interview with LinkedIn EIC Dan Roth on investing in journalism and news, work with over 400 news publishers globally, launching a podcast network, and more — - Unlike Facebook and X, traffic referrals to news publishers have increased slightly from LinkedIn over the past three years, per Similarweb.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
News sites are closing due to the collapse of programmatic ad revenue; a case study of Talking Points Memo shows how subscriptions kept the site in business — Over the years I've written about structural problems in the digital news industry, often driven by the growth of platform monopolies and other issues.
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Media Nation, @gbdonart, @joshtpm, @joshtpm, @laurarbelin, @danb11, @joshtpm, @joshuamzeitz, @joshtpm and @fishertktk
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Patronus AI releases CopyrightCatcher and says OpenAI's GPT-4 produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts in its test of AI models for copyright infringement — - Patronus AI, an AI model evaluation company founded by ex-Meta researchers, on Wednesday released research showcasing …
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@parkert@threads.net, Anand Kannappan on LinkedIn, @mark_riedl, @kn4qdg and Quartz, more at Techmeme »
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Dish Media announces it has formed an advertising partnership with streaming service Philo, letting Dish Media clients purchase Philo's addressable ad inventory — Dish Media has formed a strategic, advertising-driven partnership with wallet-friendly general entertainment streaming service Philo, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Police in Azerbaijan detained about a dozen journalists after raiding offices of Toplum TV; EIC Khadija Ismayilova said no explanation for the raid was given — Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, detained about a dozen journalists from the online Toplum TV channel on March 6 after searching …
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Road & Track magazine quietly pulls a piece by socialist writer Kate Wagner covering an F1 race in Austin in a trip funded by UK petrochemicals company INEOS — Editors for Road & Track aren't saying why they yanked Kate Wagner's story from the website shortly after it published
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CNBC expands its Make It personal finance brand with new ventures like a weekly TV series and online classes, and says Make It is its largest vertical — A ‘Make It’-branded TV series and an online course are among the projects in the works. — CNBC is expanding its presence …
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Kamelia Angelova on LinkedIn and Jessica Leibowitz on LinkedIn
Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD plans to shut down Rooster Teeth after failing sell the unprofitable fandom, gaming, and comedy entertainment unit, resulting in layoffs of ~150 employees — Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to sell shows like ‘RWBY,’ ‘Red vs. Blue’ and ‘Gen:Lock’ and will shop the Roost podcast network
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IndieWire, Gizmodo, Deadline, @chris_short1991, @chadjamesrt, Popverse Latest, Evan Bregman on LinkedIn, @themilesluna, @g0ffthew, @eoinjleahy, @ordinarygamers, cream and five sugars, I Have Hope For A Better …, The Hollywood Reporter, Not Word With Goods, Fanfictions and RWBY … and Cord Cutters News
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Tidal plans to combine its HiFi and HiFi Plus plans into a single $10.99/month “Tidal” plan, below HiFi Plus' $19.99/month; students will still pay $4.99/month — Tidal seems to have decided that there just aren't enough people willing to pay upward of $20 per month for the highest-possible audio fidelity.
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Radio Ink, Music Business Worldwide, Music Ally, CMU, Engadget, TIDAL and Billboard
Cormac Pearson / The Independent:
More than 100 MPs back an amendment to the UK's Digital Markets Bill requiring parliament's approval before UK news outlets can be bought by foreign governments — The amendment would require parliament's approval before UK news media organisations could be purchased by a foreign government
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@robertjenrick, @pressgazette and @tinastowell
Todd Spangler / Variety:
At a tech and media conference, Bob Iger says Disney is working to catch up with Netflix's tech capability and downplays the effects of activist investors — CEO says Nelson Peltz's activist investor proxy fight ‘designed to distract us’; reveals studio has ‘killed a few’ movie projects
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The Streamable, Screen Rant, Quartz, Deadline, Media Play News, Broadband TV News, Business Insider, The Hollywood Reporter, @xpangler, Next TV, TVBEurope, The Wrap and Deadline
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Studios CEO Tom Fussell plans to spend “tens of millions” of pounds to find the next global hit like Bluey; BBC Studio raised its debt facility to £600M — Commercial arm of broadcaster will ‘really go out to the market’ to develop new shows
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Adweek, Deadline, @danielthomasldn and Advanced Television
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