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9:45 PM ET, May 25, 2022

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Sports Business Journal:
Sources: the NFL plans to launch its own streaming service, NFL Plus, in July  —  Today in Unpacks: SBJ's Ben Fischer with the latest from the NFL owners meetings in Atlanta.  — PGA Championship finale lower than Phil's win in 2021  — M&M's sponsoring Pocono NASCAR race as part of last year in the sport
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Daily Telegraph reports 740,000 subscribers, on track to hit 1M by the end of 2023, as 2021 revenue rose 4% YoY to £245M and profit rose 25% YoY to £33.3M  —  Telegraph Media Group Ltd Chief Executive Officer Nick Hugh is counting on Silicon Valley to pay the British newspaper for content …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Chalkbeat, a nonprofit that covers education at the local level, raises $3.1M to permanently launch Votebeat, a separate newsroom dedicated to voting coverage  —  Chalkbeat, the nonprofit news outlet that covers education at the local level, has raised $3.1 million to permanently launch …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How a 2019 joint investigation by the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle led to the disclosure of sex abuse by Southern Baptist church leaders  —  A 2019 investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News prompted this week's massive disclosure about church leaders implicated in sex abuse cases.
CNN:
An investigation finds new evidence suggesting that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli forces in an attack targeting reporters  —  This story contains a disturbing image.  —  (CNN)Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank.
Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Capital Cities Communications CEO Thomas S. Murphy, who bought ABC for $3.5B in 1985 and sold the combined company to Disney for $19B in 1995, dies at 96  —  As the head of Capital Cities Communications, he engineered the acquisition of the TV giant.  He later sold the company to Disney, at a huge profit.
FinSMEs:
Austin-based Kerv Interactive, which helps companies create shoppable and immersive experiences within video, raises $12M, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  Kerv Interactive, an Austin, Texas-based digital advertising platform, raised $12m in growth funding.
Discussion: Axios
Zahra Joya / The Guardian:
Male TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen in solidarity with female staff after the Taliban ordered women anchors to cover their faces  —  #FreeHerFace campaign gathers force as high-profile men rebel against crackdown on face coverings in Afghanistan
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Bucking skeptics, USA Today's publisher says USA Today's print edition is profitable and helps with its overall brand, such as through hotel distribution  —  I predicted in 2019 that USA Today's print edition would fold in two years.  That hasn't happened.  —  I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
 
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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
An interview with Bloomberg News senior executive editor David Merritt on expanding in the UK and other markets where the outlet has a strong editorial base
Audrey Mcavoy / Associated Press:
Hawaii governor signs legislation providing press protections to students publishing school-sponsored media at the University of Hawaii and public high schools
Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters:
Sources say Netflix is chasing content deals in South Indian languages, frustrated by its lack of success in India, where analysts estimate it has 5M-6M users
Discussion: The Signal and @shilpajay
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jen Psaki is set to join MSNBC in the fall, appearing on NBC and MSNBC's US elections coverage and hosting a new streaming program expected to launch in Q1 2023