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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar is leaving on April 8; sources: Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav and some Discovery executives plan to take over within a week — Executive leaves as Discovery prepares to take over company; CEO shook up entertainment industry during his stint
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nine top WarnerMedia executives, including HBO Max chief Andy Forssell, will exit the company, ahead of the merger with Discovery, expected to close on Friday — HBO Max chief Andy Forssell and chief revenue officer Tony Goncalves follow the exits of Jason Kilar and Ann Sarnoff.
Kevin Marks:
Twitter quietly changed how deleted tweet embeds work, showing blank embeds on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users delete their tweets — With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it, we're missing a disturbing development …
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Variety:
In the last year, at least sixteen women of color have left the BBC's news and D&I departments, due to factors including a glass ceiling and racism — At least 15 women of color have left the BBC in the last year saying they are “exhausted” from fighting a system that …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen: as of February 2022, the US had over 817K unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services, up 26% from December 2019 — Feeling swamped by the deluge of TV and streaming choices available at the touch of a button? You're not alone.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter begins “drastically” reducing the reach of Russian government accounts and will remove tweets from government-affiliated accounts with prisoners of war — It'll ‘ask government or state-affiliated media accounts’ to take down pictures featuring prisoners of war
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN releases its first NFTs, ranging from $100 to $500 and featuring Tom Brady, in partnership with NFT startup Autograph, which was co-founded by Brady — ESPN has clambered aboard the NFT bandwagon: The sports giant is going into business with Tom Brady, angling to sell fans on the idea …
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
VerSe Innovation, the parent company of news aggregator app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, says it has raised $805M at a valuation of nearly $5B — At a time when a number of startups are finding it difficult to raise capital, VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of news aggregator app Dailyhunt …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
The NYT buying The Athletic to gain young subscribers puts it in direct competition with local US newspapers, which depend on sports coverage for subscribers — The paper of record's subscriber base isn't getting any younger. Maybe a $600 million deal will help. — The New York Times is a marvel of journalism.
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Edo, an ad measurement service for TV and streaming co-founded by actor Edward Norton, raises $80M from Shamrock Capital at a $200M+ pre-money valuation — Company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton, wants to compete with Nielsen by helping advertisers see whether consumers take action after seeing a commercial
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Pew Research Center:
Study: the number of statehouse reporters is up 11% since 2014 to 1,761, of which 20% work for nonprofits, up from 6% in 2014, and 48% cover capitols full time — As newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void — As newspapers employ fewer …
Divyanshu Dutta Roy / NDTV:
Delhi High Court lets journalist Rana Ayyub travel abroad to attend events, after she was stopped at Mumbai airport last week on money laundering charges — Rana Ayyub had been stopped from flying to London last week over a money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
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