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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Amazon takes a 50% subscription fee cut for the streaming services on Prime Video Channels while YouTube is offering 40% or less for Primetime Channels — YouTube and Netflix are the most-watched streaming services in America. But it is Amazon that has come closest to building …
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Financial Times:
Sources: days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment, media agency GroupM tells its clients that Twitter is no longer “high risk”, a designation from November 2022 — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A UK appeals court orders Carole Cadwalladr to pay 60% of Arron Banks' libel trial costs, or £1M+, plus £35K in 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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
President Biden's last-minute Australia trip cancellation stuck media outlets with big bills, showing that such trips are impractically costly for most outlets — Some correspondents think it could prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president on future overseas tours
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Disney plans to remove dozens of Disney+ and Hulu shows on May 26; the company announced a $1.5B to $1.8B impairment charge on its May 10 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
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
UK B2B information and events business Informa, which owns Industry Dive, acquires Winsight, which owns 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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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC News hires The Economist's G. Elliott Morris as its editorial director of data analytics for the news division, which includes overseeing FiveThirtyEight — EXCLUSIVE: ABC News is hiring The Economist's G. Elliott Morris to be the editorial director of data analytics for the news division …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A look at SCOTUS' Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh rulings and why Justice Thomas' explanation for Section 230's existence bodes well for the internet — Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Pablo Valdivia, NPR's first editor for Latino audiences, on the role's three prongs, its impact, other newsrooms creating similar positions, and more — “The weight of coverage shouldn't have to fall on the shoulders of a select few, but rather on the organization as a whole.
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William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal:
For the second time, Russia rejects US officials' request to visit WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, after the US denied visas for Russian journalists in April — In barring U.S. officials from visiting Evan Gershkovich, Moscow blames Washington over visa status of its reporters
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Raphael Helfand / The Fader:
Bandcamp workers vote 31-7 in favor of forming a union, Bandcamp United, and await certification from the NLRB — Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 today in favor of forming Bandcamp United. — Back in March, a year after their company was purchased by Epic Games, Bandcamp workers announced …
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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 that market to young diners — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean.
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