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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the 96th Oscars averaged 19.5M viewers in the US, up 4% YoY, the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when the Oscars drew 23.64M viewers — The 96th Academy Awards draw 19.5 million viewers, the most for any awards show since 2020. — The 2024 Oscars were the most watched in four years.
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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Netflix won only one Oscar award, for Wes Anderson's short film, and Apple TV+ won zero, despite 32 combined nominations; Universal won big with Oppenheimer — The streamers combined for 32 nominations but Netflix won just a single award. — Despite combining for 32 nominations …
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Associated Press:
Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for best documentary, a first for AP and PBS' Frontline — Mstyslav Chernov's “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
G/O Media sells Deadspin to European company Lineup, which won't keep the sports news outlet's staff; CEO Jim Spanfeller says G/O didn't actively shop Deadspin — The beleaguered media company has sold its key sports property off to a European publisher who will gut the website and replace its staff.
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Reuters:
Getty, Reuters, AP, the AFP, and other news outlets withdraw a photo issued by the UK's Princess of Wales, after analysis suggested the photo had been altered — Several leading news organisations have withdrawn a photograph issued by Kensington Palace of Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
In a video, Disney warns shareholders that adding Nelson Peltz and former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo to the company's board would be “disruptive and destructive” — Walt Disney Co. is stepping up its campaign against activist investor Nelson Peltz, warning shareholders in a new video that it would be …
Financial Times:
Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker says the group has $8B to spend on AI acquisitions and investments, to transform its businesses of supplying professional data — Media and data group will develop its own technology and scoop up targets with AI capabilities
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Associated Press plans to launch AP Buyline, a product recommendations site powered by Taboola, on March 18, part of plans to attract more consumer revenue — - The company, which has historically made most of its money from licensing its content to other media organizations …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Apollo Global Management has reached out in recent days to a special committee formed by Paramount Global about a possible takeover or asset purchase — - That rival group, which includes private equity firms KKR and RedBird Capital Partners, is evaluating an all-cash bid for Paramount's parent …
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Scholastic invests $186M to acquire full economic interest in 9 Story Media Group, a Canadian children's content producer and distributor — The book publishing giant proposes taking 100 percent of the economic interests and a minority of voting interests in the Canadian kids and family content producer.
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
A profile of Donna Langley, NBCUniversal's chief content officer and studios chairwoman, who has led Universal to creative dominance and commercial supremacy — Under Donna Langley's leadership, Universal has managed the rare feat of achieving creative dominance and commercial supremacy at the same time.
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Alex Perry / Nieman Lab:
Pulitzer Prize administrator says five of this year's 45 finalists disclosed using AI in the process of researching, reporting, or telling their submissions — Two of journalism's most prestigious prizes — the Pulitzers and the Polk awards — on how they're thinking about entrants using generative AI.
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