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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel is going to reduce output and focus on quality by releasing “about two TV series a year” and a “maximum of three” films per year — Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is shrinking the MCU with a new mission to drop the number …
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CNBC:
Disney reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $22.08B, vs. $22.11B est., with Disney+ and Hulu hitting a combined quarterly profit for the first time — The “Partners” statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, at Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom, at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, photographed Saturday, June 3, 2023.
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney's streaming unit reports a loss of $18M in Q2, down from a $659M loss YoY, and says it is on track to achieve streaming profitability in Q4 2024
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@tvgrimreaper, Dylan Jones on LinkedIn, Axios, Media Play News and The Hollywood Reporter
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Bob Iger says Disney+ will add a new ESPN tile by the end of 2024, with “select live games and studio programming” for US subscribers
Austin Fuller / Current:
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a US House committee hearing on May 8 looking at alleged NPR bias due to a schedule conflict, but offers to appear later — NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a U.S. House committee hearing Wednesday aimed at looking into alleged ideological bias at the organization.
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@renee.diresta@threads.net, Fox News, @davidfolkenflik and @davidfolkenflik
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A historical look at Pulitzer winners shows the decline of local and regional newspapers and the growth in online news outlets, especially at the local level — For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
A look at Chicago's Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with about a dozen journalists incorporated in 2015 that won two 2024 Pulitzers — The Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with roughly a dozen journalists, was recognized for local and audio reporting.
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@chrisahowell@threads.net, NewsLab, Poynter, Poynter, Chicago Tribune, Discourse Blog, Newser and Poynter
Max Tani / Semafor:
Memo: Business Insider Global Editor-in-Chief Nich Carlson is stepping down and will become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects — The Scoop — Business Insider's global editor-in-chief is stepping down as the company begins a search for his replacement.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Substack announces Substack Creator Studio, a program to support 10 US-based video creators to “turn their TikTok channels into Substack shows and communities” — The company says its plans are unrelated to a potential TikTok ban. — Newsletter platform Substack is ramping …
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Christina Loff on LinkedIn, Washington Post, On Substack and On Substack
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
Dotdash Meredith unionized workers ratify contracts with management after negotiating since 2021; the deal covers ~160 staffers at People and other magazines — The three-year deal covers approximately 160 staffers at People, Entertainment Weekly and Martha Stewart Living
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@meredithunion, @nyguild and New York Times
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 48% of US adults prefer websites or social media for local news; 15% paid for local news in the last year; 63% believe local outlets do well financially — As news consumption habits become more digital, U.S. adults continue to see value in local outlets — Table of Contents Table of Contents
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@jenrubin9@threads.net, Nieman Lab, @jackshafer, @dustysneakers_@threads.net, @iohn.bsky.social and Poynter
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
A look at Musi, a free music streaming app popular among high schoolers that uses YouTube to source music, opening Musi up to legal action from record labels — Musi's free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model.
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@knibbs, @extremeknibbs@threads.net and 9to5Mac
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Ricky Strauss, who has been head of marketing at Apple TV+ for 16 months, is leaving; he earlier was president of content and marketing at Disney+ at its launch — Ricky Strauss is leaving Apple TV+ after a 16-month stint as Head of Marketing. — In his role, he was involved …
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Variety, The Wrap, Puck, @rarebre3d and 9to5Mac
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse — Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October.
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Facebook, Social Media Today, Neowin, Ad Age, Hadar Dor on LinkedIn, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The Media Leader and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI releases a tool to detect DALL-E 3-created images, claiming 98% accuracy for unaltered images, and joins Microsoft and Adobe's content credentials group — Startup's new tool detects 98% of pictures generated by its DALL-E 3 system, but success drops if the images are altered
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Microsoft On the Issues, Quartz, Engadget, New York Times, Reuters, ZDNet and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dotdash Meredith inks a deal with OpenAI to license its content to train AI models and work together on products, including Dotdash's ad-targeting tool D/Cipher
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Engadget, @sarafischer, @sarafischer, Bloomberg, The Wrap, The Information, Sara Fischer on LinkedIn, Dotdash Meredith, The Verge and Reuters
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