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The US DOJ secretly subpoenaed a Guardian reporter's phone info in 2020, as part of a leak investigation into stories about Trump's child separation policy — Newspaper decries ‘egregious’ move by DoJ to obtain details of Stephanie Kirchgaessner as part of investigation into media leaks
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Disney CEO Bob Chapek weighs going “more aggressively into the DTC area of ESPN” but doesn't share specifics and says linear networks are “huge cash generators” — Disney isn't ready to ‘pull the trigger’ on its linear cable network
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Disney's streaming subscribers hit 205.6M globally in Q2: Disney+ added 7.9M subscribers to reach 137.7M, Hulu added 300K to 45.6M, and ESPN+ added 1M to 22.3M
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q2 revenue of $19.25B, up 23% YoY, missing financial estimates due to several one-time charges, but beats Disney+ subscriber growth estimates
Disney reports Q2 revenue of $19.25B, up 23% YoY, missing financial estimates due to several one-time charges, but beats Disney+ subscriber growth estimates
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A study finds that installing NewsGuard's extension increased reliable news consumption among US participants who tended to spend time on unreliable news sites — As more companies and platforms adopt ways to figure out whether fact-checking, flagging questionable content …
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Netflix updates its corporate culture policy, adding that it avoids censoring specific artists and that staffers should vow to spend money wisely — Netflix loves to tout its culture of avoiding rules and minimizing corporate red tape. But of course, the company does have operating guidelines …
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[Thread] Source: Insider founder Henry Blodget told staff the company is pulling back on making new hires; spokesperson: Insider is slowing down its growth plan — Insider founder Henry Blodget just told staffers the company is pulling back on making new hires, according to a person familiar with the matter. His remarks came during a quarterly update meeting.
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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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Comcast Cable president of advertising Marcien Jenckes will lead the Comcast-Charter joint venture to build a streaming service on 4K devices and smart TVs — Charter and Comcast have tapped advertising executive Marcien Jenckes to head up the partners' recently announced streaming platform joint venture.
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Francisca Sandoval dies after getting shot in the head while reporting on Workers' Day marches in Santiago, Chile; police arrested a suspect two days later — Francisca Sandoval, 29, is the first journalist to be killed in the line of duty in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship
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Analysis: 29 English-language news outlets have over 100K digital subscribers; in total, the outlets have 30M subscribers, led by NYT, WaPo, and WSJ with 14M — The world's largest English-language news publishers now have more than 30m digital subscriptions between them, research from Press Gazette today shows.

Some local officials have forced schools and libraries to shut down or restrict e-reader apps like Epic and OverDrive after objections by conservative parents — E-reader apps that became lifelines for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries.
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Spotify promotes Bill Simmons to oversee global sports strategy and names Parcast founder Max Cutler as head of creator content and partnerships — He will lead a new global sports push for the streamer — Spotify has lost a number of top executives in the past month …

The Chainsmokers partner with NFT music platform Royal to release 5K NFTs, giving holders a cut of streaming royalties, priority access for tickets, and more — Pop music duo the Chainsmokers plan to release nonfungible tokens that will give fans a cut of the streaming royalties from their new album, “So Far So Good.”
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