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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Comcast is in talks with Disney to sell its 30% stake in Hulu — - Comcast is weighing a number of factors with regard to a sale, including valuation, using sale proceeds to pay down debt and support the dividend, and future controls over Hulu. — Comcast has had a frustrating run …
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Comcast Q1: earnings beat estimates, up 14% YoY to $3.55B; revenue rose 18% YoY to $26.86B with 121K video customers lost; NBCU revenue fell 12.5% YoY to $8.31B — - Comcast reports adjusted earnings per share of 76 cents vs. 68 cents expected in a Refinitiv survey of analysts.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
How tensions among founders built up inside The Markup, based on interviews and internal documents shared by Executive Director Sue Gardner — The Markup was one of the most highly anticipated media startups in recent memory. Julia Angwin, a former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter …
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CNN:
Julia Angwin says she's committed to building a news outlet with The Markup's mission; Craig Newmark says he and other Markup funders will reassess support — New York (CNN Business)One way or another, Julia Angwin is determined to remake The Markup, the publication she co-founded and planned …
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Jeff Larson:
The Markup fell behind its schedule, and trust broke down: “It is ... not true that we intend to be anything other than a rigorous, fact-checked news outlet”
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
After Luminary admits using links that hide some podcast listener data, popular creators like Ben Thompson, Owen Williams, Federico Viticci pull their podcasts — It hid listener data from creators, which they need to make their shows — Major creators are continuing to remove their shows from Luminary …
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James Cridland / Podnews podcasting news:
Barstool Sports joins other high-profile publishers in asking Luminary to remove all of its RSS feeds, which translates to a loss of 26 podcasts — Visit https://podnews.net/update/acast- pippa for all the links, and to subscribe. — Acast have announced the acquisition of Pippa, a podcast host.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump's attitude towards the WHCD has pushed it to become a celebration of First Amendment as originally intended, as opposed to a government-press schmoozefest — For years, the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner was an embarrassment. — Although, for many, an eagerly awaited and richly relished one.
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
UK parliamentary committee criticizes Facebook, Google, and Twitter for refusing to report users to police when they remove criminal posts from their platforms — Facebook, Google and Twitter condemned for not telling police about crimes on their platforms
Antonia Woodford / Facebook:
Facebook's EU fact-checking program grows to 21 members covering 14 languages, with five new partners in Greece, N. Ireland, Croatia, Portugal, and Lithuania — Ahead of the European Parliament Elections in May, we have made fighting misinformation a top priority.
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Gabe Rivera:
Commemorating Lyra McKee, our friend and colleague of 7½ years — On September 25, 2011 I initiated a Skype call with Lyra McKee, a 21-year-old college dropout from Belfast with a spotty resume but an intense passion for journalism. It was a job interview, and I knew midway …
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Elaine Allaby / Columbia Journalism Review:
NGOs are trying to get EU legislation passed that would clamp down on libel suits against reporters, after Maltese EP member called for an anti-SLAPP directive — Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist in Malta, was on her way to the bank when she was killed by a car bomb outside her house in October 2017.
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Poynter:
Gannett launches Imagn, an image licensing service with photos from USA Today and its 109 local papers, available on a per-photo basis or via a subscription — Watch out, Getty. Gannett has launched a platform that makes original images from USA Today and its 109 local newsrooms available to paying customers.
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Time magazine's digital staffers seek to join the company's print union; a Time spokesperson said the company would discuss the proposal with the News Guild — Publication's digital staff say it's unfair for the company to only allow print staffers to join its editorial union.
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