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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK broadcasters, radio stations, digital platforms, outdoor ad companies, and others are set to lose revenue due to an ad blackout during the Queen's funeral — Block on adverts around coverage will hit broadcasters hard and could cancel out payday for newspapers from extra sales
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The Guardian, @jeffjarvis, The i Paper, @jessiegender, @danmcdaid, @lewizrs, @jonnelledge, @edmoore, @financialtimes, @hannaflint and @scottygb
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Paramount-owned Channel 5 was the only UK broadcaster not to show any royal-related coverage during the Queen's funeral, instead showing The Emoji Movie — While BBC One, BBC Two and ITV broadcast the funeral live and Channel 4 showed a documentary on the Queen, Channel 5 instead broadcast …
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The A.V. Club, @davemacladd, @afcisaac5_, @scottygb, @rhysluvv, @captain_az, @chiwithac, @jl1894, Insider, @tdnightingale, @andyrockcandy, Rolling Stone, New York Post, @scottygb, @stavvers, @ornsack, Deadline and Decider
Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation announces $4.75M in funding to the Institute for Nonprofit News, $2.85M to LION Publishers, and $2.01M to CUNY's Center for Community Media — Knight commits more than $9 million to uplift vital networks for nonprofit, for-profit, diverse local news publishers
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LION Publishers, @ckrewson, @inn, @kimfox, @scottbrodbeck, @mediatwit and @ckrewson
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mainstream media still refuses to call the MAGA movement a far-right cult, even after Trump's Ohio rally with one-armed salutes and a QAnon soundtrack — Donald Trump has gone full QAnon. As he spoke during a rally for Ohio Republican candidates on Saturday, a soundtrack associated with the conspiracy theory played.
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New York Times, Today's Edition Newsletter, @jrubinblogger and @jrubinblogger
Politico:
Sources detail growing pains at LA Times relating to its billionaire owner Dr. Soon-Shiong, as he and his family face allegations of meddling with coverage — This past May, a young reporter for the Los Angeles Times working a weekend shift filed a 190-word story about people suspected …
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
After Will Smith's Oscar slap, sources detail Apple's dilemma over releasing Emancipation, the $120M Civil War drama starring Smith that wrapped earlier in 2022 — The Civil War drama “Emancipation” finished filming early this year. Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.
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ScreenRant, New York Post, The Wrap, Decider, Numlock News, @erikaharold, The Playlist, @theferocity, @kevinlevin, @ljmontello, @hkanji, Mediaite, @brockm and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
Vermont's new and legacy local news sites, radio stations, and newspapers show that the decline of serious local journalism is not as inevitable as some imagine — Investigative journalism matters—and so does community journalism. — An extensive analysis conducted in 2020 by ProPublica …
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@newyorker, @sesmith, @aaronpcalvin, @jwehrens, @sarabethberman, @niemanlab, @mikaelalefrak, @azirulnick, @dankennedy_nu, @seanwoods12, @wcshaw, @bendangl, @billmckibben and @stormskijournal
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
A profile of GQ editor Will Welch, appointed in 2019, as he tries to revitalize the storied men's magazine and reflect a “new masculinity” in the post-MeToo age — When he got the job as top editor, a friend told him, “Yikes.” Now, with an assist from Brad Pitt, he has remade the men's magazine for the post-#MeToo age.
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@rafa_mangual, @hhavrilesky, @s_evangelina, @donetodeath and @mr_berman
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sources: YouTube's Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl is the frontrunner to become the next CEO of Warner Music when he leaves in 2023 — When YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl announced late last month that he'll be leaving the company after 12 years in the job …
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Bloomberg and @lucas_shaw
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Peter Thiel-backed conservative video platform Rumble is up 35%+ after going public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M — Rumble Inc., the conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, became a publicly traded company Monday through a deal with a blank-check firm …
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@dzuidijk and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
Will Pritchard / The Guardian:
The UK's independent radio stations that consoled listeners during lockdowns and sustained musicians, like Worldwide FM and Threads, struggle under rising costs — Gilles Peterson and other station bosses explain how the passion projects that sustained music scenes and consoled listeners …
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@grahamblaydon, @wf_pritchard, @wf_pritchard, @samliddicott, @wf_pritchard, @wf_pritchard and @chalravens
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A look at falling traffic and advertising at local news sites, with regional papers seeing the worst of it, and how publishers are rethinking digital strategies — With advertising down and newsprint and delivery costs rising, reduced traffic puts pressure on an already ailing industry.
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American Press Institute, @spj_tweets, @rodmickleburgh, Better News and @ampress
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works — from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction …
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Reason, @jeffjarvis, @greg_doucette, @steve_vladeck, @ngrossman81, @ericowensdc, @lawsuitsdevin, @jkempcpa, @jholbo1, @xor, @rumpfshaker and @mmasnick
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Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
Discussion:
Protocol, Morten's Newsletter, @berinszoka, @jeffjarvis, @nycsouthpaw, @dangillmor, @kt_so_it_goes, @publicknowledge, @kristaachavez, @berinszoka, @berinszoka, @lawfareblog, @katie_rcfp, @evacide, @popehat, @mmasnick, @caseymattox_, @berinszoka, @berinszoka, @adamkovac, @berinszoka, @berinszoka, @ericowensdc, Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Register, Politico, Public Knowledge, Washington Post, Lawfare, Chamber of Progress and The Hill
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