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New York Times:
A former colleague and records indicate WaPo's Will Lewis and Robert Winnett used fraudulently obtained records in Sunday Times articles in the early 2000s — Years before becoming the Post's publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.
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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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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Pixar's Inside Out 2 grosses $155M in the US and Canada, 2024's biggest opening weekend, and $295M globally, the biggest in history for an animated film — - Animated sequel tops ‘Dune: Part Two’ for 2024's highest bow — Opening is boon for theaters and for Disney's rebounding Pixar
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Adam Ganucheau / New York Times:
The defamation suit from former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant against Mississippi Today could become a political playbook to dismantle US press freedoms — Slow-moving lawsuits intended to drain newsrooms of their limited financial resources and editorial bandwidth.
Associated Press:
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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Jack Herrera / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of Lorena López, the founder and editor of La Prensa de Iowa, an improbably successful Spanish-language paper serving rural farm towns in western Iowa — At a Spanish-language newspaper in rural Iowa, Lorena López proves that the best counter to online misinformation is human connection.
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@andreafrantz221 and @jherrerx
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.
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Jason Parham / Wired:
Q&A with HuffPost editor Phil Lewis on aggregating news on X, being a “newsfluencer”, Black media and Black newsrooms, the future of news, and more — Editor and news aggregator Phil Lewis isn't afraid of YouTubers or TikTokkers. He says the real threat is misinformation.
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@nonlinearnotes
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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@davemorgannyc, @catherineperlo1, Catherine Perloff on LinkedIn and Digiday
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding — After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down.
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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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