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Conan O'Brien sells his hit podcast “Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend” and his Team Coco media company to SiriusXM, sources say for ~$150M — The sale of Team Coco comes as audio companies make deals with podcasters with large followings — Conan O'Brien found a friend—and a buyer …
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Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter:
How the new, more diverse editorial leadership in broadcast, cable, digital, and print media is changing newsrooms and guiding coverage to be more inclusive — Following the racial reckoning amid the 2020 protests, heads of broadcast, cable, digital and print media became more diverse.
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@javimorgado, @eugene_scott, @jayrosen_nyu, @michellemanafy and @catesevilla
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Interview with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie on building “a true alternative to the attention economy” by expanding into podcasts and videos, and more — The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” …
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@joepompeo, @mattyglesias, @helentobin, @lulumeservey, @danfriedman81, @kittypurrzog, @imao_, @joepompeo, @kait_tiffany, @brianstelter, @mlcalderone, @joepompeo and @mattnippert
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
YouTube takes down 70K+ videos and 9K+ channels about the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including videos referring to a “liberation mission” — Exclusive: Platform takes ‘unprecedented action’ to address content guideline violations since invasion
Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of Twitter account New York Times Pitchbot, run by a math professor mocking the NYT's lazy constructions, half-baked hot takes, and diner interviews — A few weeks ago, the person behind the New York Times Pitchbot—not a bot at all, but a Twitter account whose posts satirize …
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@_cingraham, @syardi, @walldo, @ggreenwald, @patterico and @calaesthetic
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney depart Saturday Night Live after its 47th season finale; McKinnon was in a female-record 211 episodes — Saturday Night Live bid farewell to four veteran cast members tonight, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
An interview with Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on the company's expansion into lifestyle verticals, such as outdoors and books, alongside NFTs and betting — Fox Corp. is in the early stages of expanding into lifestyle verticals across categories like outdoors, home and books, CEO Lachlan Murdoch told Axios in an interview.
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@pressgazette and @sarafischer
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Warner Bros. Discovery may be a compelling company, because of its content and a strategy that sees streaming as an addition to the old model, not a replacement — Last week the Wall Street Journal ran a profile of longtime Discovery CEO (now Warner Bros. Discovery CEO) …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The Weather Channel will add a livestream of its cable channel to its connected TV apps, available for free to cable subscribers or for $2.99 per month — The executives at the company that owns cable's venerable Weather Channel know they have a popular service. The network has been around since 1982.
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Next TV, Junghoon's Direct Media …, @2xaught7 and Radio & Television …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A look at Lara Logan's journey from being a CBS News star to working on far-right fringe causes, like vaccine skepticism, denying the 2020 US election, and more — The former chief foreign affairs correspondent is now a popular guest on podcasts hosted by vaccine skeptics and deniers of the 2020 election.
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@jwpetersnyt, Overtime, @nprinskeep, @mtaibbi, @garethicke, @mtaibbi, @willsommer, @ameshiacross, @mjfree, @chwangjulian, @ggreenwald, @davetroy, @brianleiter, @soledadobrien, @tati_wm, @redsteeze, @bradmossesq, @nytimes and @skirchy
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta plans to give outside researchers more info on political ad targeting on Facebook and Instagram and to update Ad Library with more info starting in July — Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram.
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@justinhendrix, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, The Financial Express, @annalecta, @whotargetsme, Protocol, @krdonc13, @ianclucas, The Hill and Engadget
Reuters:
Netflix agrees to settle a tax dispute in Italy for $59M; prosecutors argued cables and servers used by Netflix amounted to a physical presence in the country — U.S. streaming service Netflix has agreed to settle a tax dispute with Italy, the company and legal sources said on Friday.
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Light Reading, Broadband TV News, @ajayrotti, @reuterslegal and @pauljmonaghan
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