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8:40 AM ET, May 3, 2024

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New York Times:
Sources: Sony Pictures and Apollo Global formally express interest in acquiring Paramount for ~$26B; Paramount's negotiating period with Skydance ends May 3  —  Paramount has been exploring a potential deal for months, talking to suitors including Skydance, producer of “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fubo reports 1.51M FuboTV subscribers at the end of Q1, down from 1.61M in Q4, revenue up 24% YoY to $394M, and a $56.1M loss, down from $83.6M a year ago  —  The streaming platform shrunk its losses on higher subscription and advertising revenue.  —  Sports streaming platform FuboTV …
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: MLB is in advanced talks to make Roku the new home for Sunday morning baseball this season, in what would be Roku's first major live rights deal  —  Major League Baseball and Roku are in advanced talks to make the service the new home for Sunday morning baseball this season …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Guardian outlines plans for a “small number of voluntary redundancies”, says it is 60% funded by readers, and had a £39m loss in the year to March 2024  —  Editor Katharine Viner said the business foresees revenue pressures continuing into the next year at least.
Discussion: Telegraph and The Drum
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
For weeks, grad students at The Columbia Journalism School have chronicled protests, and professors worked to ensure access and safety as the campus locked down  —  They've gotten a crash course in breaking news, capturing the Hamilton Hall occupation and the NYPD's crackdown, while surviving on pizza and operating on little sleep.
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
A look at 2023 media CEO pay amid industry contraction: Charter CEO Chris Winfrey, $89M; Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, $84M; WBD CEO David Zaslav, $49.7M; and more  —  It was a year of pain for the entertainment industry and shareholders of (many) media companies with months-long Hollywood strikes and layoffs.
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A look at Hunterbrook, whose hedge fund makes trades based on investigations by its newsroom, and well-connected founders Sam Koppelman and Nathaniel Horwitz  —  The hybrid media-finance company wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest.  Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy?
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Universal Music Group and TikTok strike a new music licensing deal to bring UMG music back to the platform, including “improved remuneration” and AI protections  —  The months-long standoff between Universal Music Group and TikTok over royalty payments and AI policies is finally over …
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Indonesia's Vidio, a local streaming competitor to Netflix, aims to double its paid subscribers to 8M in the next two to three years ahead of an IPO  —  - Youthful population of over 270 million a draw for streamers  — Low 5G penetration remains an obstacle to increasing customers
 
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Jack Mirkinson / Discourse Blog:
Dana Bash's May 1 CNN monologue about pro-Palestinian student protests included lies, regurgitated others' spin, and repeated lines of pro-Israel propaganda
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
In a letter, Fubo, DirecTV, and others call on Congress to hold hearings on the Fox, Disney, and WBD's sports streamer, citing “serious competition concerns”
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen signs a deal to be SAG-AFTRA's third-party provider of streaming content measurement, to help the union cross-check viewership data from streamers
Jim Edwards / Press Gazette:
A look at 1440, a media brand with a single daily newsletter that aggregates news and has 3.5M subscribers, 15 staff, and ~$15M in annual revenue
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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which feel more like social media, with aggregation and more
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
Pen America's 2023 Freedom to Write index: at least 339 writers are in prison for exercising their freedom of expression, including 107 writers in China alone
Tom Jones / Poynter:
The Dallas Morning News hires Duke University professor Stephen Buckley as its public editor, an increasingly uncommon role across US media organizations
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Three House Republicans call on NPR CEO Katherine Maher to appear at a hearing on May 8 following ex-staffer Uri Berliner's allegations of bias in news coverage
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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