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The Washington Post's choices with respect to covering the flag outside Justice Alito's house illustrate how deferential the coverage of SCOTUS was before Dobbs — In January 2021, the Washington Post's Supreme Court reporter and his editors agreed: The upside-down American flag seen flying …
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The Washington Post says it knew about the upside-down US flag at Justice Alito's house in 2021 but did not report it as it didn't seem related to politics — In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Push alerts from the BBC News app have become hugely influential in the UK; the app has an estimated 12M installs, with ~60% of its users getting notifications — With BBC news app alerts reaching as many as 7m Britons, parties are desperately trying to influence what gets pushed out
Caroline Frost / Deadline:
Martine Croxall, one of the four female BBC journalists who brought a tribunal claim against the BBC, returns to screen after being off-air for more than a year — BBC news presenter Martine Croxall has returned to screen after being off-air for more than a year, while her legal battle with her employer still plays out.
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Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comscore: Memorial Day weekend box office grossed an estimated $128.3M, a 29-year low, excluding 2020 and 2021, and down ~37% YoY; Furiosa led with just $32M — Overall revenue for the four-day holiday also hits a 29-year low as the early summer calendar suffers from an unprecedented absence …
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
How a struggling actor duped friends and investors in a $690M+ Hollywood Ponzi scheme, claiming to buy cheap movie rights and sell them to major streamers — A struggling actor struck it rich in Hollywood—then the F.B.I. showed up. — Anyone who visited Zach and Mallory Horwitz in 2019 …
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle for use during the EU elections, in a bid to address EU concerns over Meta's plan to shut down the tool in August 2024 — Meta Platforms (META.O) has added safety features to its misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle for use during European Parliament elections …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
A look at the growing importance of ads for video streaming services, as Antenna says that 56% of new subscribers chose the cheaper ad-supported tier in Q1 2024 — Ads are here, there — almost everywhere — on streaming services now. — Not long ago, streaming TV came with a promise …
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on the state of Hollywood, shifting US tastes, programming strategy, ads, corporate activism, YouTube, live events, AI, and more — Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — If you're anything like me, you probably spent some large portion of this week sitting on your couch watching Netflix.
Max Tani / Semafor:
OpenAI seems to be uninterested in doing content licensing deals with partisan news sites, like left-leaning HuffPost or right-wing outlets like Breitbart News — The News — The partisan publishers that thrived during the social media age — most of all, high-flying right-wing outlets …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
As traffic from social media drops, nonprofit news outlets are experimenting with in-person outreach to distribute journalism to new and underserved audiences — As social platforms falter for news, a number of nonprofit outlets are rethinking distribution for impact and in-person engagement.
Andrew Buncombe / The Guardian:
A look at efforts to revive the community newspaper The Black Lens in Spokane, WA, as a printed monthly distributed by the Spokesman-Review for now — The Spokane community revived the paper to capture the nuance of the Black community - beyond the ‘feel-good stories’
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