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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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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 …

Discussion: The Wrap, The Guardian, SlashFilm, TVLine, Screen Rant, The Hollywood Reporter, ComingSoon.net, @tvgrimreaper, The Playlist and Deadline

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 — Entertainment giant adds streaming customers as it swings to a loss as a result of charge from India media venture

Discussion: Dylan Jones on LinkedIn, @tvgrimreaper, 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 — Disney+ will add a new ESPN tile by the end of 2024. — The new tile, which will grant U.S. subscribers access to “select live games …

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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney reports Disney+ 153.6M subscribers, vs. 155.66M est., and raises its guidance for FY 2024 earnings growth from 20% to 25%, vs. 25.5% est.; DIS drops 8%+

Discussion: Advanced Television

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Disney+ Core, which excludes Disney+ Hotstar in India and other Southeast Asian countries, subscribers up 6% QoQ to 117.6M in Q2, above forecasts

Discussion: The Streamable

Ren LaForme / Poynter:

2024 Pulitzer Prize winners: NYT for Investigative Reporting, WaPo and Reuters for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting for Oct. 7 coverage — A live list of the winners of journalism's top honor, including links to the winning stories. — The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes …

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Joseph Ax / Reuters:

Lookout Santa Cruz, a digital-only local news outlet, won the breaking news reporting Pulitzer for its 2023 California floods coverage; Reuters won two prizes — Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, taking home the national reporting award for a series of investigations …

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NYT and WaPo won three Pulitzers each; the prize for public service went to ProPublica for its coverage of Justice Clarence Thomas' financial entanglements

Discussion: Politico, Poynter, @rachael_levy, @stevenwaldman, @tomburtonwsj, Newser, Edmund Carlevale on LinkedIn, @propublica.bsky.social and The New York Times Company

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

Discussion: TechCrunch, New York Times, Reuters, ZDNet and Microsoft On the Issues, more at Techmeme »

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 — - OpenAI will also collaborate with Dotdash to create new AI products and features for its readers.

Discussion: The Wrap, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Information, Dotdash Meredith, @sarafischer and @sarafischer

Max Tani / Semafor:

Memo: Business Insider Global Editor-in-Chief Nic 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.

Discussion: The Wrap, @julie188, @nichcarlson, @thestalwart, @mjnblack, @sarafischer, @sportsrapport and The Daily Beast

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Amazon announces three new interactive ad formats for Prime Video: shoppable carousel ads, interactive pause ads, and interactive brand trivia ads — Three new formats will let users easily include products featured in ads to their Amazon carts, with no need for QR codes.

Discussion: AdExchanger, Variety, Adweek, Ad Age, Amazon Ads, MediaPost, Next TV and Deadline

Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:

Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining — The company on Monday reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized employees who said they were willing …

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Condé Nast's tentative agreement to contract terms came after the union leaders had explicitly threatened to stage a picket line at the 2024 Met Gala

Discussion: Page Six, UPROXX, Vogue and New York Post

Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:

Tubi partners with Issa Rae's ColorCreative initiative to launch Stubios, an incubation program for up-and-coming filmmakers looking to break into the business — Tubi is partnering with Issa Rae's Color Creative initiative to launch an incubation platform for up-and-coming filmmakers looking to break into the business.

Discussion: Adweek, Variety, StreamTV Insider, TechCrunch, Media Play News, CNET, Next TV, TubiTV Corporate and Cord Cutters News

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with comedians Bert Kreischer, Taylor Tomlinson, and Chelsea Handler on the boom in standup comedy, which grossed $900M+ in 2023, and Netflix's role in it

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and @lucas_shaw

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead, which uses AI to let users jump to parts of a video where most viewers skip ahead, to all US Premium members using its Android app

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A viral Politico story on Democratic donors funding the pro-Palestine protests against Joe Biden is full of inaccuracies; Politico issued some corrections

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Simon & Schuster acquires Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, its first deal for a non-English book publisher; VBK will maintain its editorial independence

Discussion: The Bookseller, Publishing Perspectives and Publishers Weekly

Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of ESPN's First Take host Stephen A. Smith, whose longevity and uncanny ability to deliver opinions made him the most famous talking head in sports

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
UK film and TV execs say the industry is struggling to recover from the Hollywood strikes and the spending contractions among UK broadcasters and US streamers

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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business

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Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are

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