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David Folkenflik / NPR:
John Lansing, the CEO who led NPR through turbulent times during the pandemic, dies at 67, just six months after stepping down from the network — Former NPR chief executive John Lansing died Wednesday at his lakeside home in Wisconsin, just six months after relinquishing his role at the network …
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Eli Tan / New York Times:
A look at San Francisco's local news scene, which boasts 27 news orgs, ranging from hyperlocal nonprofits to legacy survivors to billionaire-backed outlets — The city has become a hothouse for experimentation in local news. Could it serve as a model for the rest of the country?
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A US judge temporarily blocks the launch of Venu Sports, the streaming service from Fox/WBD/Disney, a week before rollout, after Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit — - Judge bars new streaming platform until Fubo lawsuit proceeds — Venu was scheduled to launch next week for $42.99-a-month
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion relaunches a monthly print edition for online subscribers, a perk alongside live events, and others; it stopped running ads from Taboola in July — This week, The Onion began distributing a print edition for the first time in more than a decade. — The funniest writers …
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Justin Bachman / Legal Dive:
A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI — A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of others, without permission to help train their generative AI learning models.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Top WaPo editors are “looking into” Taylor Lorenz's private Instagram story that sources say labeled Biden a “war criminal” in a photo taken at the White House — Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist's private story on social media …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Condé Nast hires Elizabeth Herbst-Brady as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Pamela Drucker Mann, who was CRO since 2019 and left earlier this month — The veteran executive joins the media company from Yahoo — Legacy media company Condé Nast—which houses iconic …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group will take oversight of 20+ WBD cable networks in 2025 after Kathleen Finch retires — Channing Dungey will take oversight of entertainment networks following the retirement of Kathleen Finch at year's end
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Akash Pasricha / The Information:
Source: film production company Petra Media acquires Creator+, a startup producing and streaming films for creators; Petra had earlier invested in the startup — We've got a trio of creator economy scoops for you today, so let's get right to it. — Creator+, a startup producing …
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
Appfigures: consumers spent $3.8B on entertainment apps for mobile devices worldwide in Q1 2024, including $2.1B on streaming apps and $0.9B on short video apps — One unlikely culprit: TikTok — Entertainment continues to be a big money maker for publishers and app stores alike …
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
A NY appeals court rules that Nexstar fraudulently collected $10.5M in retransmission fees from DirecTV by hiding that an NBC affiliate had become independent — Broadcaster concealed loss of NBC affiliation at WHAG — Nexstar Media Group collected $10.5 million in retransmission consent fees …
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Guy Chazan / Financial Times:
A German court's injunction suspending a ban on far-right magazine Compact highlights the tension between limiting extremist views and protecting rights — Before being prohibited last month, few Germans had heard of Compact. Now it claims ‘everyone wants a copy’
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