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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney+ will exclusively stream every season of CoComelon starting in 2027, paying tens of millions of dollars annually to take it away from Netflix — One of Netflix's most-watched titles will move to Disney+ in 2027 — Walt Disney Co. has secured the exclusive streaming rights …
Financial Times:
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin — US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets — Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
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Ray Schultz / MediaPost:
The Washington Post Tech Guild plans to pursue its first collective bargaining agreement with the company following a vote of 171-38 to establish the union — The Washington Post Tech Guild will pursue its first collective bargaining agreement with the company following a vote of 171-38 …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: some WaPo staffers say opinion editor Jonathan Capehart's new book pits colleagues against each other and appears to run afoul of editorial guidelines — The Scoop — A new book by a Washington Post opinion editor is spilling a years-old fight back out into the open …
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Semafor:
Inside the “anti-woke” media's identity crisis after Trump's win, amid concerns The Free Press and others are becoming platforms for “moderate Trump sycophants” — The libertarian journalist Michael Moynihan felt the shift on election night 2024, after it had become clear that Donald Trump would win.
Hillel Aron / Courthouse News Service:
An Amazonian tribe sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts — “The NYT portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations …
Financial Times:
JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to over 280M in May, driven by IPL cricket streams, nearing Netflix's global subscriber count of 300M — Subscriptions soar as JioStar consolidates rights for world's richest league in sport-mad nation — Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Mumbai
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Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
A look at the Ditch Weekly, a newspaper run by 20 teenagers and covering Montauk, New York, with a goal to distribute 2,000 copies a week through Labor Day — From left, Teddy Rattray, Harry Karoussos and Billy Stern of The Ditch Weekly. Billy started the newspaper with Teddy and his cousin Ellis …
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A look at Imax's rise thanks to its box office contributions, even as traditional theaters worry it could make moviegoing a luxury and reduce overall attendance — Movie studios are putting more emphasis on the IMAX brand as it stands out as a bright spot in the theater business.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt — Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. … Even at first glance, there's something off about the body on the street.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis on their new newsletter, the Indicator, which covers misinformation and more; Silverman has left ProPublica — “It's just politically expedient in this climate [for platforms] to lay low. And so this manifests in record levels of digital scams …
Abram Brown / The Information:
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders — In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention …
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