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Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival — Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. — Elon Musk's social media platform X …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA journalists, their unions, and Reporters Without Borders sue USAGM, acting CEO Victor Morales, and Kari Lake, alleging their moves to close VOA are unlawful — Six Voice of America journalists sued Kari Lake and the Trump administration on Friday, alleging their moves to shut …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Max Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994, has died at the age of 94 — Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apollo is exploring a sale of Cox Media, including TV and radio stations, at a possible $4B valuation; Nexstar and Gray Media are potential buyers — The New York-based alternative asset manager has hired Moelis & Co. to help it explore a potential sale of Cox Media Group …
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Netflix shrugs off The Electric State, which cost $275M+, getting far fewer views than other features, showing how different it is from traditional studios — The film's struggles have elicited no more than a shrug inside the company, demonstrating how different Netflix is from traditional studios.
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Australian Financial Review, SlashFilm and Washington Examiner
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
IFPI: global music streaming revenues hit a record $20.4B in 2024, driven by paid subscription revenues up 9.5% YoY to $15.15B; paid subscribers reached 752M — MBW's Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
After leadership changes and an internal studio closure, Netflix aims to refine its gaming strategy, focusing on smaller-scale games rather than big-budget ones — The company will focus on four areas: narrative, mainstream, party and kids — Hi everyone.
Richard Zoglin / Bloomberg:
A new biography of The Onion shows how American satire has evolved and provides clues about how it can respond to a president who seems beyond parody — A history of The Onion provides some clues on how American comedy can rise to the occasion of Trump's second term.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: YouTube is preparing to test a feature that will let host-read ads be dynamically inserted and swapped out within individual YouTube videos — The Scoop — YouTube is preparing to test a technical change that could upend the way YouTubers, podcasters, publishers …
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Podcast Strategy Weekly and The Media Leader
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Popular UK comic book makers form a trade association to lobby for government recognition of comics as an important export industry and source of valuable IP — Trade association Comic Book UK to lobby for recognition over importance as export industry and value as IP developer
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week — Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm.
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Brendan Carr says the FCC is prepared to block M&A proposals, including the Paramount-Skydance deal, from companies with “invidious forms of DEI discrimination” — The US Federal Communications Commission is prepared to block mergers and acquisition proposals from companies that promote …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The LA Times' use of AI-generated political labels makes opinion pieces less persuasive by telling readers whether or not they're supposed to agree with them — At a time of increasing polarization and rigid ideologies, the L.A. Times has decided it wants to make its opinion pieces less persuasive …
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