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7:15 PM ET, April 4, 2024

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Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September  —  New York CNN —  —  Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
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CNBC:
Disney prevails in the proxy fight with Nelson Peltz's Trian Partners as shareholders vote to reelect its full board, a stamp of approval for Bob Iger's efforts
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Forbes ran an alternate version of its website for years with reformatted articles, promoted on Taboola and others, to maximize ads intended for Forbes.com  —  Slideshows on parallel site—which Forbes shut down Tuesday—were loaded with ads and promoted through clickbait-style paid links
Clay Wirestone / Kansas Reflector:
Facebook removed every post linking to the Kansas Reflector on April 4; the issue coincidentally arose on the day the Reflector ran a piece critical of Facebook  —  Facebook has blocked the sharing of Kansas Reflector stories and removed all posts linking to our website.  (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross  —  Video platform provider Vimeo named Philip Moyer, a senior exec at Google Cloud overseeing AI applied engineering and business development, as CEO and member of its board.
Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo:
Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers  —  And it'll be worse this time around!  —  The writing life, which has never exactly been a picnic for independent journalists and freelancers …
Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian:
Guardian journalist Hella Pick dies at 96; she spent seven decades as a foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor after fleeing Nazi-annexed Austria in 1938  —  Former colleagues pay tribute to Pick, who broke into male-dominated world of foreign affairs journalism in 1950s
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use  —  Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”
ProPublica:
ProPublica creates a dedicated newsroom team to sustain future investigative projects of current and prior Local Reporting Network partners  —  ProPublica announced on Wednesday a commitment to publishing accountability journalism in every state over the next five years.
Reuters:
Sources: Alphabet is considering an offer for the marketing software company HubSpot, which has a $35B market cap, in what would be its largest acquisition yet  —  Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot (HUBS.N) …
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Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
X adds blue checks to some accounts, including journalists, as part of its plan to give free Premium status to those with 2,500+ “verified subscriber followers”  —  Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.
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Melissa Evans / Long Beach Post:
The Long Beach Post CEO says the outlet has been the target of lies and sabotage from some former and current staff amid layoffs, a union campaign, and a strike
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memos: Jonathan Greenberger is departing ABC News, where he has been bureau chief in Washington, DC, to become executive vice president of Politico
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Adam Morgan / Literary Hub:
Small book publishers worry following the abrupt closure of Small Press Distribution, which was one of the last independent book distributors in the US