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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.
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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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Financial Times:
Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
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MIT Technology Review and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A UK appeals court orders Carole Cadwalladr to pay 60% of Arron Banks' libel trial costs, totaling ~£1M, and £35K damages, despite finding her Ted Talk lawful — Brexit donor Arron Banks entitled to damages over Carole Cadwalladr's Ted Talk, appeal judges have ruled.
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@carolecadwalla, Reporters Without Borders, @mariaressa and @carolecadwalla
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.”
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Informa, a UK events and publishing company that owns Industry Dive, acquires Winsight, which publishes Foodservice Director and Restaurant Business, for $380M — Winsight's brands include titles such as Foodservice Director and Restaurant Business. — B2B information and events business Informa …
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Dow Jones Newswires
Edward White / Financial Times:
Chinese comedian Li Haoshi faces a police investigation and his management company a $2.1M fine after he made a military joke that was posted on social media — Punchline referring to military slogan sparks uproar and gloom over free expression in China — Ad-libbing during a stand-up routine is second nature for a comedian.
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BBC and @edwardwhitenz
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
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Ezra Marcus / Grub Street:
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean. But innovation is relentless …
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Adweek, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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@matthewkeyslive, @doctorow, @dangillmor@mastodon.social and @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Mahender Singh Manral / The Indian Express:
Indian authorities arrest freelance defense journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi, accusing him of espionage and of being in possession of “classified secret documents” — A source said initially the Delhi Police had lodged an FIR against Raghuvanshi, and the investigation was later transferred to CBI …
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Voice of America and Defense News
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p — Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
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MediaNama, @inthefade, @charlesarthur, @taylorlorenz, Mashable, The Verge, Engadget and The Messenger, more at Techmeme »
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