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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Christiane Amanpour says she had a “robust exchange of views” with CNN CEO Chris Licht over Trump's town hall, becoming the first CNN anchor to dissent publicly — It has been one week since CNN's town hall with Donald Trump — and the fierce fallout stemming from the event is still reverberating.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer the channel as a streaming service in 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
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 — Shares of Netflix jumped over 10% Thursday on news that the streamer had signed up almost 5 million customers for its ad-supported plan within six months of its launch.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix says its ad tier has nearly 5M MAUs globally six months after launch and makes up 25%+ of signups in countries with the option; the median age is 34
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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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
In Andy Warhol Foundation vs. Goldsmith, SCOTUS sides with the photographer, who says Warhol violated copyright by using her photo to create images of Prince — - 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.
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Institute for Nonprofit News:
Institute for Nonprofit News executive director and CEO Sue Cross is stepping down by the end of 2023 after eight years at the helm — Veteran journalist and news leader Sue Cross will step down as executive director & CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) by the end of this year, INN announced today.
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Variety:
A look at salaries for CEOs at Comcast, Paramount, Disney, Netflix, and Fox and year over year changes to them, as the companies lay off employees — Economists are fretting about a recession. Media stocks are in the toilet. Layoffs are being enacted monthly as a spirit of cut, cut, cut grips Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
TikTok is testing a feature to integrate music streaming services via a button that lets users add songs to a music app; so far Apple Music is the only option — “Short-form video that doesn't lead anywhere is the most dangerous thing I've seen the music business face in a long time,” …
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a two-year deadlock after Republicans opposed an earlier nominee — President Joe Biden intends to select veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez to serve on the Federal Communications Commission …
Columbia Journalism School:
Columbia Journalism School announces a loan repayment assistance program to provide recent graduates working in nonprofit media up to $50K over five years — The program is the first of its kind for graduate journalism schools. With its inception, Columbia continues to stake its claim …
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Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Real estate billionaire Sam Zell, whose disastrous $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.
Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
A NY court dismisses a 2020 defamation suit against Maxwell Tani, The Daily Beast, and Noah Shachtman filed by Carson Griffith, an editor hired to revive Gawker — - A defamation lawsuit against The Daily Beast was dismissed by a New York appeals court. — The suit was filed …
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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 — Fox Tubi TV linear television sports — Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the media company still believes traditional cable …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox settled with Dominion to avoid a distracting, long legal battle, which he says Fox would have won, and defends dropping Tucker Carlson
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