Mediagazer: ITV reports 2023 external revenue down 3% YoY to £3.6B, ITV Studios revenue up 4%, digital revenue up 19% to £490M, linear ads down 15%, and ITVX MAUs up 19% (Variety)

A jury finds Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — Weapons experts and prosecutor witness Bryan Carpenter, explains in court that he found fault with Alec Baldwin's conduct and use of guns.

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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

Q&A with FT Group CEO John Ridding on the benefits of being owned by Nikkei, using AI in the newsroom and for engagement, US growth, and Big Tech's AI missteps — The FT has more than 1.4 million subscribers, including more than 1 million digital subscribers. About 20% are based in the United States.

Discussion: Press Gazette, @worldeditors, Financial Times and @niemanlab

Ben Markus / Colorado Public Radio:

Colorado Public Radio lays off 15, primarily in audio and podcast production, and spares the newsroom of cuts; staff grew from 48 in FY 2006 to 214 in FY 2022 — Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees this week, the largest cut to the public broadcaster's payroll in at least a quarter of a century.

Discussion: @oddryhepburn@threads.net

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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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:

A look at Apple's studio business: sources say the company spent $700M+ of its reported $1B+ annual 2023 spend on just three films, which earned $466M combined — On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and …

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Kasey Moore / What's on Netflix:

Netflix licenses the first season of the OnlyFans original series House of Sims, which debuted on OFTV in May 2023, in the UK — No, we're not making that up... House of Sims is coming to Netflix UK. — There are always headlines I have to write here at What's on Netflix …

Discussion: The Sun

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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Variety:

ITV reports 2023 external revenue down 3% YoY to £3.6B, ITV Studios revenue up 4%, digital revenue up 19% to £490M, linear ads down 15%, and ITVX MAUs up 19% — U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV's annual results for 2023 were revealed Thursday. — Total group revenue was down 2% …

Discussion: The Guardian, ITV, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter

Will Shanklin / Engadget:

Twitch details its 2024 plans: redesigning its mobile app for the first time since 2019 to add mod tools, the ability to upload short videos, and more — It promises “a more modern, immersive viewing experience” later this year. — Twitch is redesigning its mobile app for the first time since 2019.

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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.

Discussion: Digiday, @jbhavan, Jeff Jarvis on LinkedIn, @jeffjarvis, @eriqgardner, @silmonn, @ismaelnafria, @risj_oxford, Dan Horowitz on LinkedIn, Paul Quigley on LinkedIn, Katie Carroll on LinkedIn, Heather Harder on LinkedIn, Michael Learmonth on LinkedIn, CBS News, Media Voices and The Sun, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: @parkert@threads.net, Anand Kannappan on LinkedIn, @mark_riedl, @kn4qdg, Lee Tiedrich on LinkedIn and Quartz

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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