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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney says Jimmy Kimmel's show will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment” — The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.”
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sinclair and Nexstar say they will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live!, meaning about a quarter of the ABC stations in the US won't be airing the show — Together, the two TV station groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, control more than 20 percent of ABC's local affiliates.
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@wearesinclair, Nexstar Media Group, Inc., Deadline, The Hill, Mediaite, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, TV Tech, Business Insider, Variety, Washington Examiner, Global News, Tech Advisor, El País, Hollywood Life, AM New York, Consequence, Newser, The Verge, Bloomberg, American Greatness, Daily Caller News Foundation, Blaze Media, Cord Cutters News, @goldy.horsesass.org, @newsjennifer.bsky.social, Plain Dealer, New York Daily News, NOTUS, NBC News, NPR, New York Post, Axios, Radio & Television … and NBC Bay Area
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Internal report: global revenue at the Financial Times Group grew by 6% YoY to £540M in 2024; UK accounts for Financial Times Ltd show revenue up 2% to £454.6M — Advertising dips but paid-for content and events revenue grows in 2024. — Global revenue at the Financial Times Group …
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Talking Biz News
Reuters:
Reuters launches its Arabic website, the company's third dedicated language platform after English and Japanese, and says it will provide 100+ stories daily — By: Reuters Communications — Reuters today launched its new Arabic website, marking the company's third dedicated language platform in addition to English and Japanese.
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Talking Biz News
Jason Zweig / Wall Street Journal:
Jonathan Clements, who wrote 1,009 personal finance columns for the WSJ between 1994 and 2008, died on Sunday at 62, after being diagnosed with cancer last year — He wrote more than 1,000 personal-finance columns for the Journal and was a favorite of readers
Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
UK High Court orders Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke to pay The Guardian at least £3M to cover the outlet's legal costs after he lost his £70M+ libel suit — Order comes after British actor loses case against the news organisation over sexual misconduct investigation
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The Guardian and Screen
Quinn Moreland / New York Times:
An interview with Noah Johnson, the new editor of the fashion magazine Highsnobiety, about “authenticity” as a core editorial principle and more — Noah Johnson, the new editor of Highsnobiety, wants to bring the glossy down to earth. — “The most important editorial principle …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video — The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach.
Discussion:
Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn and @carnage4life@mas.to, more at Techmeme »
Julian Wyllie / Current:
Cascade PBS in Seattle lays off 12% of staff, or 17 employees, due to the federal funding rescission and will stop producing long-form written journalism — Cascade PBS in Seattle is cutting 17 employees in response to the rescission of federal funding to public broadcasting.
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KING-TV, FOX 13 Seattle and MediaPost
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Note to staff: WaPo says journalists can now use video to respond in the comments section of their articles, and it's using AI to block “hateful” comments — In a note to staff, WaPo says it is introducing video comments for staff, allowing staff to engage in the comments section of their articles (while using AI to block “hateful” comments and surface interesting comments) [image]
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Fast Company and twitchy.com
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Future launches Collab, an initiative that integrates creator-led content across its portfolio; creators are hand-selected and paid flat fees as contributors — Future has launched Collab, a new initiative for creator-led content that runs across its portfolio of media brands including Marie Claire …
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Future
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch file to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein report, saying “the article is true” — “In an affront to the First Amendment, the President of the United States brought this lawsuit to silence a newspaper …
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would help Fox promote TV programming to young audiences, and redeem Rupert Murdoch's disastrous $580M Myspace purchase in 2005 — A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would give the Murdoch media empire a platform with 170 million US users to promote a broad range …
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Cord Cutters News, @robbendigo, @kennysmith.bsky.social, CNET, Tomorrow USA and Australian Financial Review
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Axios:
White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app
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Bloomberg:
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government
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