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Bloomberg:
Sources: Vanguard Group, the biggest investor in Disney with a roughly 8.3% stake, is voting for Disney's board nominees at the annual meeting on April 3 — NYC Comptroller on Disney Proxy Fight, Congestion Pricing … Vanguard is the biggest investor in Disney, with a roughly 8.3% stake, Bloomberg-compiled data show.
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CNBC, Reuters, Business Insider, Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn, Rohan Bansal on LinkedIn, Reuters, Variety and Fox Business
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A profile of Dana Walden, who is in the running to be Bob Iger's successor as Disney CEO, as some colleagues and friends discuss her strengths and faults
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Awful Announcing, Fortune, @sherman4949 and New York Post
Financial Times:
US-based hedge fund Hunterbrook launches its newsroom, Hunterbrook Media, after raising $100M to make trades based on scoops uncovered by its reporters — Target of Hunterbrook's first story questions ethics of it taking a short position in its stock — A US hedge fund has raised $100mn …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her” — - “Apple's conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech.
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The Daily Show on YouTube, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Paul Lobosco on LinkedIn, Jon Lam on LinkedIn, HuffPost, The Guardian, CNN, Vanity Fair, @lutherlowe, The Hill, @ashleygjovik, @jason_kint, @ddayen, @carlyshandle, @douglaslfarrar, @benremaly, IndieWire, @wbm312, Ars Technica, The Verge, @jason_kint, @thedailyshow, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, New York Post, Quartz, @jason_kint, Decider, @lutherlowe, @linakhanftc, @nick_field90, Fortune, Business Insider, Fox Business, UPROXX, The Wrap, Rolling Stone and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
David Pierce / The Verge:
Yahoo acquires the news app Artifact, shuts down its standalone app, and plans to use its technology on Yahoo News and other services in the coming months — Instagram's co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale.
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Yahoo, Quartz, Sona Iliffe-Moon on LinkedIn, @mikeisaac, @tomwarren, @2ajit2tweet, @parkerortolani@threads.net, @mcwm, @jlanzone, @simondowens@threads.net, Andrew Machado on LinkedIn, @y_molodtsov, The Wrap, @carnage4life@threads.net, @mgsiegler, @artifact_news, @mediaevan, @mjburnsy, @eaustinj@threads.net, @kerrymflynn, @yevp, @alex, @imdavidpierce@threads.net, @ryanspoon, Observer and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Christopher Kuo / New York Times:
George Carlin's estate settles with the makers of Dudesy, who agree to remove their YouTube video and podcast they originally claimed used an “AI” George Carlin — The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin's work.
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The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
John Hanna / Associated Press:
The Marion County Record's parent and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, file a federal lawsuit over police raids of its offices and Meyer's home in 2023 — A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices …
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Kansas Reflector and Media Nation
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
A look at the lawyers using defamation lawsuits to fight political disinformation with a focus on key spreaders, like Alex Jones — “I've always despised bullies that pick on defenseless or seemingly defenseless people,” said Michael J. Gottlieb, who has represented clients targeted …
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@jesseapaul, @mannyortiz51, Shomik Dutta on LinkedIn, @walterolson, Miguel A. Lopez on LinkedIn, @strobie, @tribelaw, LinkedIn, @walterolson and @ddayen
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
MoffettNathanson forecasts YouTube TV will have ~12.4M US subscribers by 2026's end, passing Comcast and Charter to become the country's biggest pay TV provider — Google's streaming cable television alternative YouTube TV is on track to overtake Comcast's Xfinity TV and Charter's Spectrum TV …
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Next TV, 9to5Google, @tvgrimreaper, MediaPost, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News
Tyler Jett / Des Moines Register:
Iowa officials settle a suit with independent political blogger Laura Belin, who was denied a press pass to the legislature; Iowa will pay her attorneys $49K — Iowa state officials agreed Tuesday to pay attorney's fees and change state House policies to settle a lawsuit from a liberal blogger …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200+ others sign a letter to AI developers and tech companies decrying “predatory” AI that steals voices, replaces artists, more — - Jen Jacobsen, executive director at The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), the trade group representing the artists signing the letter …
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Observer, Fox News, CNN, Billboard, Deadline, Artist Rights Alliance, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Sun, @carnage4life, Ars Technica, Wccftech, The Hill, The Hollywood Reporter, Music Ally, Variety, Rolling Stone and Consequence, more at Techmeme »
Kristen Lopez / The Wrap:
Miramax names Jonathan Glickman as CEO and acquires his independent film and TV studio, Panoramic Media — The move comes six months after Bill Block vacated the role — Jonathan Glickman will fill the position of CEO at Miramax, the studio announced Tuesday.
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Variety, Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter
Laya Neelakandan / CNBC:
Private equity firm Silver Lake says it plans to take sports and talent agency Endeavor private at a $13B equity value, or $27.50 per share — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices — News Tips
John Maher / Publishers Weekly:
Nonprofit library tech cooperative OCLC, which owns WorldCat, acquires CloudLibrary, a digital lending service used by ~500 libraries in 20 countries — Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world's largest global catalog of library collections …
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