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Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers: Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, and Mohammad Mansour — Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today, has also been killed in a separate Israeli attack.
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The Atlantic EIC says he was inadvertently included in a Signal chat group with Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and others revealing the attack plans on Houthi targets — U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
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3D tech company Infinite Reality buys Napster for $207M; CEO John Acunto says the one-time file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse — A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …


Chris LaCivita, an ex-Trump campaign manager, files a defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast over an October 2024 article on how much the campaign paid him — The lawsuit accuses the news site of knowingly publishing false information about how much Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager, was paid by the campaign.
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The Daily Mail crosses 250K digital subscribers, including more than 163K Mail+ subscribers, and appoints Celia Duncan as its first global women's editor — Femail, Inspire and Secrets & Lives said to be key Mail+ subscriptions drivers. — The Mail has crossed the quarter …
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Internal TikTok memo: Blake Chandlee, who oversaw TikTok's ad sales globally, is moving to an advisory role; TikTok faces an April 5 deadline for a US sale — A TikTok executive responsible for its core advertising business is stepping aside as part of a reorganization …
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Fashion magazine i-D, bought by Karlie Kloss' Bedford Media after Vice's 2023 bankruptcy, returns to UK newsstands, priced at £20; i-D plans two issues per year — Publication makes long-awaited return to UK newsstands amid renewed interest in luxury and indie titles
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A look at Apple's strategy missteps with TV+, including trying to rival Netflix by building a platform from scratch and using TV+ to boost device sales — “Apple is Losing Over $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Service” - the literal headline number in this report about Apple TV+ by The Information looks scary.


Q&A with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on the music creation platform, the economics of creator platforms, why creatives “deserve better” than AI tools, and more — Today, I'm talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice.
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Q&A with Nick Denton on moving to Hungary, Gawker, how Peter Thiel actually did him a huge favor, and Thiel funding the Gawker suit mainly over a PayPal story — The former Gawker publisher has had it with America under Trump. As he prepares to move to Budapest, Denton talks Cybertrucks …
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As TV production and movie ticket sales collapse in South Korea, producers hope China will lift its unofficial ban on Korean programs, in place since 2016 — As TV production and movie ticket sales collapse, producers are hoping China will lift its unofficial ban on Korean programs
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Some French booksellers are limiting orders of Hachette's books to protest the growing influence of Hachette owner and conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré — Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company's books and placing them on lower shelves
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