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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Sources: the FBI and DOJ are investigating what led TikTok's parent company ByteDance to use the app to surveil US journalists; source: ByteDance was subpoenaed — Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice's Criminal Division subpoenaed …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Afternoon shows on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN rate higher than the networks' prime-time shows, as big stars move on, core audiences turn to streaming, and more — The biggest draw on Fox News is no longer Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity; it's “The Five.” And daytime shows on CNN and MSNBC are outranking evening programming.
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@thebeatwithari, @joshkraushaar, @kellycnbc and @brianstelter
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Digital media companies are shifting from ad-driven scale models into something smaller, which should benefit publishers that have flexible models and low costs — The year of efficiency heralds a longer chill for publishing — I've been thinking lately about how we are between eras in lots of areas.
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@niemanlab, Variety, @jbenton, @simonowens@newsie.social and Digiday
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Variety:
A survey of 338 US Fox News viewers: 21% trust the channel less due to the testimony and texts from the Dominion lawsuit and 9% say they watch the network less — More than a fifth of Fox News Channel viewers are less trusting of the cable network in the wake of publicly disclosed text messages …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The US Copyright Office says protection for AI-assisted artistic works will depend on whether AI's contributions reflect the author's “own mental conception” — The U.S. Copyright Office issued new guidance on Wednesday to clarify when artistic works created with the help of artificial intelligence are copyright eligible.
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Billboard, The Information, Plagiarism Today and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more — In February 2019, Dina Srinivasan, then an independent scholar, published an academic paper entitled ‘The Antitrust Case Against Facebook’ …
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@markscott82, @anshublog, @dinasrinivasan, @patrickmcgee_ and @spignal
Roger Vincent / Los Angeles Times:
Fox Corp submits plans for a $1.5B expansion of the historic Fox Studio Lot, including adding nine soundstages, for a total of 24, as streaming drives demand — The historic Fox Studio Lot, one of Hollywood's most celebrated movie factories, is set to get a $1.5-billion upgrade that would change …
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Deadline, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
Barbara Kandek / Wikimedia Foundation:
Q&A with Jareen Imam of Women Do News, which aims to increase the recognition of women in journalism, particularly by using Wikipedia to tell their stories — This is Open the Knowledge: Stories, a blog series highlighting Wikimedia movement volunteers and groups that are working …
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@mollystarkdean
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times:
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times — MindGeek acquired by Ethical Capital Partners for undisclosed sum — MindGeek, one of the world's largest and most controversial porn companies …
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Variety, @pkedrosky, Bloomberg and @mroliverbarnes, more at Techmeme »
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube raises YouTube TV's price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18 — YouTube has announced that it's raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder — After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the company.
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Variety, Gizmodo, Deadline, Tubefilter, @dieselttv, IGN, New York Times, The Information, @rhymestyle and @chilledchaos, more at Techmeme »
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Elliot Resnick, a former editor of The Jewish Press, faces charges of civil disorder, impeding police officers, and misdemeanors at the US Capitol on January 6 — The former editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City — identified two years ago as a member of the Jan. 6 mob by POLITICO …
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Associated Press, abc7NY, @egavactip, FBI and @kyledcheney
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