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8:55 AM ET, April 27, 2022

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Los Angeles Times:
After criticism, Los Angeles County's sheriff says his department is not pursuing a criminal leak probe into LA Times journalist Alene Tchekmedyian  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas; it's unclear if this will continue under Musk  —  For all the talk of how Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter to make it more supportive of free speech, there remain a ton of questions about what it will actually mean in practice.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton warns Elon Musk that Twitter must follow the new Digital Services Act rules or face fines or even a ban in Europe
Marie Woolf / Canadian Press:
Rachel Curran, a Meta Canada policy manager, tells a parliamentary panel the company has “serious concerns” about an online news bill modeled on Australia's law  —  OTTAWA - Digital giant Meta says it has “serious concerns” about the federal government's online news bill …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue rose 24% YoY to €2.66B, including €282M from ads, up 31% YoY; paid subscribers rose 15% YoY to 182M, despite losing 1.5M in Russia  —  Spotify Technology SA's paid subscriber forecast for the current quarter fell just short of analyst estimates …
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Real-time TV ad measurement service iSpot.tv raises $325M from Goldman Sachs and says it had $75M in revenue in 2021, up from $51M in 2020  —  The firm helps marketers track whether their ads spurred a visit to their website or a purchase.  The new funding is the latest in a flurry of deals around TV ad metrics
Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn as Kahn succeeds Baquet as The New York Times' executive editor, on growing subscriptions, objectivity and democracy, and more  —  · Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What's next for the New York Times?  —  Last week, after years of public speculation on the matter …
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The New York Times Company:
Dean Baquet will lead a new one-year local investigative journalism fellowship at The New York Times, which will offer free co-publication to local news outlets
Variety:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery cuts development of new TBS and TNT scripted shows; it's unclear what will happen to the current slate of scripted programming  —  TNT and TBS are moving out of the scripted game under new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which CEO David Zaslav has promised …
Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
The Mail on Sunday editor rejects a meeting with the House of Commons speaker about a story saying Labour's Angela Rayner distracted Boris Johnson with her legs  —  David Dillon had been called to a meeting with Sir Lindsay Hoyle after running a story widely condemned as sexist
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding audio and graphics staff and beefing up copy-editing and fact-checking  —  The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding new departments for audio and graphics …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitch is considering cutting the revenue share for top creators in its partner program to 50%, from 70%, among other changes to boost its revenue  —  Twitch, the Amazon.com Inc.-owned live-streaming website, is weighing potential changes to how it pays top talent …
 
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Mavrck, which helps brands and media companies connect with influencers, raises $135M, after raising $120M in December 2021, and acquires Linkin.bio maker Later
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast and Charter launch a joint venture to develop a nationwide streaming platform that will use Comcast's Flex streaming tech and feature Xumo content
Discussion: @alexweprin
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Survey of 4,069 people in eastern EU countries: 52% are concerned about media freedom and 59% support granting the EU more powers to protect media liberties
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Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Berlin-based Informed, a news app in beta with a human-curated content feed and access to outlets like The New York Times and Foreign Policy, raises a €5M seed
Discussion: @lionelbarber
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Reader co-owner Len Goodman and three board members step down amid protests from employees, letting the alternative newspaper transition to a nonprofit
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Online podcast recording service Riverside raises a $35M Series B led by Oren Zeev and says its clients include the NYT, Fox Sports, Marvel, and iHeartMedia