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Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank; three eyewitnesses said Israeli troops killed her — Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank Wednesday, the network said.
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Al Jazeera accuses Israel of intentionally killing Shireen Abu Akleh, who was wearing body armor marked “press”; Israel backtracks from blaming Palestinians — Israel denies Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by its troops and says she may have been hit by Palestinian fire

Bloomberg Media launches Bloomberg UK with a website, video series, podcast, and a summit in 2022, to compete with The Financial Times and The Sunday Times — A new venture, Bloomberg UK, is the first inkling of a new international strategy for the business news giant. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Disney reports Q2 revenue of $19.25B, up 23% YoY, 137.7M Disney+ subscribers, up 33% YoY and adding 7.9M subscribers in the quarter, above estimates of 5.2M — Disney's flagship streamer gained 7.9 million customers in the first three months of 2022, to stand at 137.7 million, up 33% year over year.
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Slate names Hillary Frey, a former top editor at HuffPost, as its new editor in chief; Slate has not had an EIC since Jared Hohlt stepped down in January 2022 — Hillary Frey will lead the online publication as it struggles to find its way after a number of high-level departures and tries to work toward profitability.
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Creators who quit YouTube keep returning despite “YouTube brain”, where creators are creatively and financially subject to the whims of viewer attention spans — Prominent YouTubers keep quitting the platform and then coming back. Call it the result of YouTube brain.
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Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry, fired in 2020 amid sexual misconduct allegations, drops his defamation lawsuits against NPR and CNN for reporting on his firing — The lawsuit, which took aim at NPR and CNN for reporting on Henry's firing from Fox over sexual misconduct allegations, was voluntarily dismissed “with prejudice.”
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Twitter rolls out a new “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify how it combats spam and duplicative content, and what it considers to be a violation — Twitter announced today that it's rolling out a new “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify …
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The website for The Believer, once a literary magazine run from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is now owned by a sex toy company and digital marketer — Last week, the media newsletter The Fine Print reported on a surprising new direction for The Believer, the prestigious literary magazine run …

Sources: the head of film marketing strategy for Apple TV+, JP Richards, has resigned, and Apple is expected to name his replacement “in the coming weeks” — Richards notified his team of his departure on Wednesday morning, one insider added. He joined the company in January 2021 …
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment plans to acquire DVD rental and streaming company Redbox Entertainment for $375M in an all-stock deal — New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! — Among buggy whip businesses, Redbox Entertainment (RDBX) …

Google signs deals with 300+ outlets in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland to pay for news content and will roll out tools for them — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries …
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