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3:55 PM ET, April 11, 2024

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly  —  Prime Video has a big audience, and now Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has put a new number on it: The premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.
Flipboard:
Flipboard makes 400 creators and 11,000 of their curated magazines visible in the fediverse and integrates fediverse notifications into the Flipboard app  —  Today Flipboard is taking two big steps toward opening its platform to the fediverse, making 400 creators and 11,000 …
Discussion: TechCrunch
The Information:
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers  —  TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following.  But the company has begun discussing with advertisers …
Doja Daoud / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Q&A with Gaza journalist Diaa Al-Kahlout, Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, on being held for 33 days in Israeli custody  —  Diaa Al-Kahlout, the veteran Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed …
Variety:
Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, after UMG pulled her songs as part of an ongoing dispute with TikTok  —  As of Thursday morning, multiple Swift songs — including “You Belong With Me,” “Lover,” “Cardigan,” “Mirrorball,” “Fearless …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012  —  The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed …
Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders says Hong Kong authorities detained and deported a Taiwan-based RSF advocacy officer who had planned to cover the Jimmy Lai trial  —  A media watchdog said Wednesday that Hong Kong authorities expelled one of its officials who had arrived to cover the trial of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC names Alex Kay-Jelski, currently The Athletic's UK and Europe EIC, as Director of BBC Sport, starting in June 2024  —  The Athletic's Editor-in-Chief for UK and Europe is joining the BBC to run its sports coverage.  —  Reporting into content boss Charlotte Moore …
Discussion: BBC
 
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Avi Asher-Schapiro / Context:
Unions representing animation and VFX workers plan to demand rules for how studios deploy AI, as most entertainment executives see AI displacing workers
Richard Smirke / Billboard:
The UK parliament's CMS Committee urges the government to address “pitiful returns” for songwriters from music streaming, including changing the revenue split
Jeff Jarvis / Nieman Lab:
Excerpts from an analysis of the California Journalism Preservation Act, which has yet to pass the state Senate, including its many weaknesses and alternatives
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
ESPN and Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions strike a nine-year media rights deal, which includes Monday Night Football's ManningCast and other programming
Voice of America:
FCCC survey: reporting conditions in China have improved since the pandemic, but foreign journalists still face visa problems, surveillance, and harassment
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”