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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley conference begins on July 5 featuring Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix, and more, as financial woes dampen dealmaking — As fleece-clad billionaires—and newcomers like Bari Weiss—flock to Idaho this week, Sun Valley fixtures are buzzing about Netflix's future …
Alex J. Rouhandeh / Newsweek:
IBT Media sues Newsweek and its CEO, seeking to cancel the 2018 deal to spin out Newsweek, which IBT claims was a PR stunt to shield the magazine from bad press — IBT Media is asking a New York court to cancel a 2018 deal in which Newsweek was spun off as an independent company …
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
To cut costs, HBO will cease producing HBO Max originals in the Nordics, Central Europe, the Netherlands, and Turkey and will also remove some HBO Max content — As the media conglomerate looks to recalibrate its streaming priorities, it will no longer produce originals in the Nordics …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: TikTok abandons plans to expand its TikTok Shop live e-commerce program to Europe and the US, after internal problems and a lack of traction in the UK — Chinese-owned social media platform's foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction
Elizabeth Aubrey / NME:
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash's music returns to Spotify, after they removed it in February in solidarity with Neil Young's Joe Rogan protest — Of the news, David Crosby said: “I don't own it now and the people who do are in business to make money”
Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog:
Canada's CBC News plans to launch a free, ad-supported streaming news channel for local, national, and current affairs, on digital and TV platforms this fall — CBC News announced on Thursday it will be launching a new ad-supported streaming channel across its digital platforms this fall.
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but enforcement could be hamstrung by limited resources — EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
Stephen Grey / Reuters:
In a jailhouse interview, the man accused of detonating the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia confesses to the crime — The man accused of detonating a car bomb that killed a prominent Maltese journalist has confessed to the crime in an interview with a Reuters reporter …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
NPR ends its 33-year tradition of reading the US Declaration of Independence on July 4, instead discussing the meaning of the phrase “all men are created equal” — Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep typically celebrates July 4th with an annual reading of the Declaration of Independence to his loyal listeners on NPR.
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Reuters:
French music streamer Deezer goes public via SPAC on the Euronext stock exchange, opening at €8.50/share before dropping ~27% to around €6.50 — Shares of French music-streaming platform Deezer plunged as much as 35% on its first trading day, in a blow to telecoms maverick Xavier Niel …
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Lauren Easton / Associated Press:
The AP reopens its Gaza bureau in a new location over a year after the office building of the previous one was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike — Over a year after the building housing the news agency's Gaza bureau was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, The Associated Press announced today …
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Terence McGinley / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT's David Fahrenthold on why the world of nonprofit charities is prime for investigative reporting, how he became an investigative reporter, and more — David Fahrenthold of The Times discusses why the world of nonprofit charities is prime for investigative reporting.
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