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Joe Otterson / Variety:
Internal memo: Paramount Streaming President and CEO Tom Ryan is stepping down; Ryan became CEO in October 2020 after co-founding Pluto TV — Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Paramount Streaming, is stepping down. — Ryan notified Paramount staffers of his departure in an internal note …
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Bloomberg:
Amazon says it is closing its Wondery podcast studio and will break up its operations as part of a broad reorganization; a source says ~110 will lose their jobs — As podcasting becomes video-oriented, Amazon is shuffling Wondery into Audible and a new “creator services” team while cutting approximately 110 staff members
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Jessica Roy / The Information:
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut — Last August, when CNN's Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launch Status, an email newsletter focused on the media industry …
CPB:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down after losing federal funding and is “committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities” — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following …
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Wall Street Journal:
How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking process while safeguarding IP and addressing legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns — The stakes are especially high for the studio, caught between how to use artificial intelligence in the filmmaking process …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and the US over alleged censorship — Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims — The UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated.
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BBC:
In the UK, X and Reddit are blocking wide-ranging content, including about parliamentary debates, Ukraine, and Gaza, to comply with the Online Safety Act
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Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:
Children's Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza criticizes a Channel 4 documentary on porn star Bonnie Blue for “glamorising and normalising” extreme porn — Programme about performer Bonnie Blue condemned for ‘glamorising and normalising’ extreme pornography
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New York Post, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @zzypt.bsky.social, @bisk.sureis.sexy, The Sun and Mirror
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise — Spotify Technology SA shares gained in premarket trading after the company announced it's raising premium subscription prices across many markets outside the US.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Regal Cinemas will distribute a new Dude Perfect documentary on 800+ screens, including rivals AMC and Cinemark, as it looks beyond Hollywood for content — The second-largest US theater chain is releasing a documentary about the YouTube group Dude Perfect on hundreds of screens
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:
Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation — Bullish, a digital-asset exchange operator and owner of media outlet CoinDesk, is looking to raise as much as $629.3 million in its US initial public offering.
Benjamin Wallace / New York Times:
How the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots, hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, has attracted a wide audience by offering in-depth analysis of economic trends — “Odd Lots” goes deep on lentils in Saskatchewan, the global tractor supply and trucking markets. Is it the skeleton key to understanding this strange economic moment?
Max Tani / Semafor:
In a letter to NYT leadership, ~50 unionized culture staffers express shock and concern over the reassignment of critics, as the section shifts toward video — The Scoop — A shakeup of the New York Times culture section has promoted a fierce internal backlash in a letter of complaint …
Discussion:
@maxwelltani and @faintghostglow
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
A profile of WSJ EIC Emma Tucker, who has positioned WSJ as a rival to NYT through investigative journalism, without falling foul of Murdoch's politics — Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White House
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TVNewsCheck, @bobbradysd1.bsky.social and Raw Story
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