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A bankruptcy judge orders the liquidation of Alex Jones' personal assets but dismisses for now the bankruptcy case against the company that runs Infowars — A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Workweek, a publishing platform for creators serving business professionals, raised a $12.5M Series A to expand from its eight newsletters and 500K+ subscribers — The company raised $1.5 million in seed round funding in a round led by LightShed Ventures. — The company provides publishing …
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@adamry_n, @rameeztase and Talking Biz News
Owen Lewis / Defector:
The Longform podcast, featuring weekly interviews with nonfiction writers, is planning to end production after 12 years — Wednesday morning, I saw a tweet from the Longform podcast: Jay Caspian Kang, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was the guest on for their 583rd episode. I perked up.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at the growing popularity of Tubi as streaming prices rise; Nielsen: May was Tubi's most-watched month ever, with an average of 1M viewers, up 46% YoY — In the era of “streamflation,” it's a good time to be Tubi. — Subscription prices for Netflix, Disney+, Max and Peacock …
Catherine Perloff / Adweek:
The Trade Desk threatens to demonetize Yahoo video ad inventory, saying Yahoo had misrepresented inventory as “in-stream”; Yahoo says it's working on changes — The DSP is accusing the publisher of misrepresenting its inventory — The Trade Desk alerted buyers earlier this week …
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Catherine Perloff on LinkedIn and Digiday
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The movie The Apprentice has yet to find a US distributor, suggesting that some media companies may have already been intimidated by Trump and his supporters — This week I finally got to see “The Apprentice,” an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump.
Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Sources say the publisher Little, Brown canceled prominent journalist Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, partly due to Carlson's mainstream absence — A major publisher just canceled a big-budget book on the former Fox News star, cementing his mainstream absence.
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute:
How news outlets Newslaundry, The News Minute, The Wire, The Caravan, and Scroll, joined forces to report on India's elections with the help of audience funding — Our contributor Raksha Kumar spent the day with them — At 7:30 on 4 June, a regular bungalow in South Delhi was swarming …
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Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified briefly at the fraud trial for Carlos Watson of Ozy Media, denying Watson's alleged claims that Google sought to buy Ozy — Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, said he never discussed a potential acquisition of the digital media start-up.
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Nieman Lab, Bloomberg, Courthouse News Service, Bloomberg and Associated Press
New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos appears to be standing by Publisher and CEO Will Lewis and has envisioned WaPo growing to reach 100M subscribers from its current 2.5M — The Amazon founder has expressed his support to Will Lewis, the C.E.O., who has faced widespread criticism this month.
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TVNewsCheck:
NBCUniversal unveils 27 members of its Paris Creator Collective for Olympics social media content, partnering with Meta, Overtime, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube — Continuing its efforts to reach Olympic fans of all generations, NBCUniversal today unveiled its first-of-its-kind …
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Reuters, NBCSports.com, Broadband TV News, Adweek and Media Play News
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
A Chinese court sentences Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, to five years in jail for state subversion — Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, sentenced along with labour activist Wang Jianbing
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@jfsteinfeld, @sophiedrich, Committee to Protect …, CBS News, Voice of America and New York Times
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Yahoo debuts a revamped version of its free Yahoo News app, powered by Artifact's AI tech, after acquiring the Instagram co-founders' news app in April 2024 — Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram's cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year.
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