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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
New Mexico prosecutors charge Alec Baldwin and the armorer of the movie “Rust” with involuntary manslaughter for cinematographer Halyna Hutchins's on-set death — New Mexico prosecutors said they are filing felony criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer …
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Nexstar reaches a multiyear deal to broadcast the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour on The CW Network; so far, LIV events have been available online free — Partnership will determine the Saudi-funded golf tour's financial viability — LIV Golf, the controversial Saudi-funded golf tour that launched …
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Financial Times:
Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022 — Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
FilmLA: Los Angeles film, TV, and commercial shooting days fell 19.5% from Q4 2021 to Q4 2022; commercials for the year were 24.5% below their five-year average — The newest quarterly report on Los Angeles on-location shooting from FilmLA shows a sharp downturn in shoot days in the final quarter of 2022 …
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Filing: Dish has 9.75M pay-TV subscribers in total in Q4 2022 and 2.33M Sling TV subscribers, down from 2.41M in Q3 and the same as its 2018 subscriber level — Sling TV, the DISH-owned streaming service, finished the year off with a substantial drop in subscribers, ending Q4 2022 with a loss of 77,000 subs.
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The BBC's US head of digital journalism, Saeed Ahmed, quits after four months, raising concerns about the BBC's international and domestic news channels merger — EXCLUSIVE: The BBC's head of digital journalism has quit after just four months, prompting further anxiety about the UK broadcaster's plans …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Amazon and DAZN sign a global distribution partnership which will make DAZN available as a Prime Video Channel for an additional fee for Prime Video customers — Amazon and DAZN have signed a global distribution partnership that will see DAZN's direct-to-consumer sports streaming service available as a Prime Video Channel.
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Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: Amazon's music subscription market share fell from 21% in January 2022 to 17% in November 2022, when it introduced restrictions to listening on demand — Bigger song catalog brings less choice for some; ‘a lot of cussing’ — Dustin Bingham loves to play music when he cooks.
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Rich Johnston / Bleeding Cool:
Amazon's layoffs are heavily impacting digital comic book publisher and distributor ComiXology, acquired in 2014, with reports of up to 50% of staff leaving — ComiXology staffers are reporting widescale redundancies today across the digital comics publisher and distributor, as well as its parent company, Amazon.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
The UK's Sunday Times promotes deputy editor Ben Taylor to editor, replacing Emma Tucker, who was named editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal — Ben Taylor has been named as the new editor of The Sunday Times, stepping up to replace Wall Street Journal-bound Emma Tucker.
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
CoinDesk retains Lazard investment bankers to help the outlet explore its options, including a partial or full sale, after “numerous” indications of interest — The company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth said. — 1x
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