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No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed after being beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by soldiers — Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten …
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Al Jazeera:
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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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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 …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
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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New York Times:
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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Axios, @mediaevan.bsky.social, Fortune, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Wrap and The Daily Caller
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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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@chronotope.aramzs.xyz, @michaelsderby.bsky.social, Daily Mail and ResponseSource
Ian Youngs / BBC:
Barb: Netflix's Adolescence becomes the first streaming show to top the UK's weekly TV ratings, with the first episode drawing 6.45M viewers in its debut week — Netflix drama Adolescence has become the first streaming show to top the UK's weekly TV ratings, beating BBC shows like The Apprentice …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at Apple's bad Apple TV+ strategy, including dismissing Netflix's growth, building a platform without a back-catalog, 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.
Discussion:
@tvgrimreaper
Anna Peele / Vanity Fair:
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 …
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
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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@ebbooksellers.bsky.social and @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Lawyers for USAGM say they notified RFE/RL of their intention to disburse $7M+ by next week, following a lawsuit filed by the broadcaster — The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) on Monday said it will make a multi-million dollar payment to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty that is intended …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher are set to testify to Congress on March 26 at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's “Anti-American Airwaves” hearing — Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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TVNewsCheck and @benmullin
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