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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Patrick Soon-Shiong says LAT opinion pieces will show an AI-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views — Los Angeles paper's ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: the Academy has talked informally with Netflix and others about airing the Oscars in future years; its exclusive negotiating window with Disney lapsed — The audience for the Oscars has declined more than 50% over the last decade. Will that lead to a break-up with its home of more than 50 years?
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Ryan Coleman / Entertainment Weekly:
Hulu faced technical difficulties during its live airing of the Oscars; in the Oscars' first hour, 34K+ users told Downdetector that the service wasn't working — More than 34,000 users reported the streaming site was down within the ceremony's first hour.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Hulu cut its live stream before the Oscars ended, falsely stating “the live event has now ended” while Best Actress and Best Picture were still to come
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Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Independent films triumphed over more popular titles at the 97th Academy Awards, with Neon's Anora claiming five Oscars and A24's The Brutalist winning three — The 97th Academy Awards marked a celebration of independent film, with Neon's “Anora” claiming five Oscars, including for best film, lead actress and director.
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
No Other Land, about Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, won Best Documentary at the 2025 Oscars, a rebuke after no distributor picked it up in the US — In their acceptance speeches, the Israeli and Palestinian co-directors called for “serious actions to stop the injustice.”
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: YouTube is preparing a Netflix-like redesign of its TV app, with paid content from other streamers like Max and Paramount+ on the homepage — It should have been easy. — YouTube in late 2022 began including in its app video-streaming services operated by other media companies …
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Wall Street Journal:
MLB plans a TV model where teams cede local rights to MLB for a unified streaming package; teams get ~25% of revenue from local media, the most of any US sport — The big sports network is walking away from the national pastime, accelerating baseball's need to cope with the demise of the TV economy that fueled its growth for decades.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox Nation has 2M to 2.5M subscribers, suggests a new stand-alone Fox streaming outlet would be aimed at “cord nevers” and “cord cutters” — At Fox Corp., executives are counting more heavily on streaming subscribers.
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Vermillio, whose TraceID tool monitors online content for the use of IP, name, image, and likeness, raised a $16M Series A co-led by DNS and Sony Music — Vermillio, the Chicago-based AI licensing and protection platform, has raised a $16 million Series A co-led by DNS Capital and Sony Music, executives exclusively tell Axios
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
How FCC Chair Brendan Carr was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 when he was a commissioner — Dozens of pages of emails reveal how Brendan Carr, the FCC's Republican chairman and close confidante of President Trump …
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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Prime Video UK Director Chris Bird, one of Amazon's longest-serving streaming executives, plans to leave this month after 14 years — Chris Bird is leaving his role as Director of Prime Video UK after 14 years. — In the past few minutes, head of Prime Video's EU Established division …
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Jamie Heller / Business Insider:
Business Insider hires former Daily Beast EIC Tracy Connor as the outlet's new standards editor — I'm thrilled to share that Tracy Connor has joined Business Insider as Standards Editor. — In this critical role, Tracy will work with our journalists on questions during the reporting process …
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Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Docs: TikTok generated $1.7B globally in sales from TikTok Live in one 2023 quarter, with $400M+ from the US, projects Live will generate $77B globally by 2027 — - App's financial details part of unsealed child safety lawsuit — TikTok faces possible US ban if not sold by early April
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