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10:20 PM ET, May 18, 2023

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney cancels plans to build an Orlando office complex and move 2,000+ workers from California to Florida; sources: the DeSantis feud influenced the decision  —  A new office complex, and relocation of a division from California, would have created more than 2,000 jobs but was scuttled …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Disney will start purging dozens of Disney+ and Hulu shows on May 26; the company announced a $1.5B-$1.8B impairment charge at its last earnings call  —  Disney is starting to pull content from streaming, with dozens of series and specials slated to leave Disney+ and Hulu on May 26, Deadline has learned.
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines” online to offer more information on how reporters did their work, after running the experiment since January 2022  —  “This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said.  “It's more colloquial, it's more plain-spoken.”
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer users its channel for streaming in the coming years by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals  —  Internal project code-named ‘flagship’ lays out shift in coming years, as talks with leagues and cable partners have begun
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Christiane Amanpour says she and CNN CEO Chris Licht exchanged “robust” views over Donald Trump's town hall, becoming the first CNN anchor to publicly dissent  —  It has been one week since CNN's town hall with Donald Trump — and the fierce fallout stemming from the event is still reverberating.
Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Real estate billionaire Sam Zell, whose $8.3B leveraged buyout of Tribune Co. led to layoffs of 4,200 people and bankruptcy, dies at 81  —  Sam Zell, the billionaire investor who called himself “the Grave Dancer” for his bets on distressed assets, including a losing wager that drove the Tribune Co. into bankruptcy, has died.
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Requiring Big Tech to pay news outlets is the wrong approach, as their destinies will become linked, an increase in news investment isn't guaranteed, and more  —  It's no longer controversial to claim that Big Tech is a parasite on the news business.  But there's still a raging controversy …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
In Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, SCOTUS sides with the photographer, who says Warhol violated copyright by using her 1981 photo to create Prince artwork  —  - The Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a copyright dispute over the use of a celebrity photographer's image of the musician Prince.
New York Times:
A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana's law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more  —  A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Associated Press:
A Tunisian appeals court sentences a journalist to five years in prison for refusing to reveal his sources after publishing counterterrorism operation details  —  A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism operation …
Discussion: @sahagunfelipe
Brian Fung / CNN:
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh  —  Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix shares jump 10%+ after the streamer reported it has almost 5M global monthly active users for its ad-supported plan introduced in early November 2022
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a more than two-year partisan deadlock if the Senate confirms her
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
TikTok is testing an integration with music streaming services that lets users tap a button to add songs to a music app; so far, Apple Music is the only option
Discussion: Washington Post and RAIN News
Reuters:
Polish news websites including Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita were hit by DDoS attacks, which Poland's Cyber Security Minister blamed on Russian hackers
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024
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Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times:
SAG-AFTRA asks its members to authorize a strike even before starting negotiations with studios, set for June 7, to give the union “maximum bargaining leverage”
Jaime Brooks / The Seat of Loss:
An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
Associated Press:
Photographers pursued a car carrying Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after a NYC charity event on May 16, forcing them to briefly take refuge in a police station
Matthew Keys / Fierce Video:
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch says the company still thinks cable and satellite TV offer the best consumer value and reach for its news and premium sports programs
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times launches New York Times Audio for iOS after ~1.5 years in private beta, offering short-form stories, daily news show The Headlines, and more