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2:05 PM ET, April 6, 2022

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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.
Discussion: Axios, The Wrap and Variety
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: @arunpandey99 and The Signal
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
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 …
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Amazon will increase the Music Unlimited subscription on Prime from $7.99/month to $8.99 from May 5; the Single Device plan will go from $3.99/month to $4.99
Discussion: Billboard, CNET and The Verge
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
An Iran court indicts Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi on a claim he stole the idea for his film, A Hero, from a documentary by one of his former students
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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple confirms it has been piloting a feature, launching “very soon”, that lets developers like Disney+ automatically charge users for subscription price hikes
Sara Fischer / Axios:
iHeartMedia purchases the rights to roughly a dozen NFTs to create the Non-Fun Podcast Network based around characters and voices from prominent NFT collections
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Substack says users can now produce paid, subscription-based podcasts on its platform and that three Patreon-hit podcasts moved over; Substack takes a 10% cut