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3:30 PM ET, June 21, 2023

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Lawrence Hurley / @lawrencehurley:
[Thread] Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito uses a Wall Street Journal op-ed to respond to questions from ProPublica, instead of simply issuing a statement  —  Justice Alito appears to be trying to get out ahead of a new ProPublica report that will address a trip he went on with billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer. Weirdly, it is published as an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/...
Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: in a surprise move, WBD shops some HBO titles to Netflix, including Issa Rae's 2021 comedy Insecure, to boost revenue; some HBO veterans pushed back  —  EXCLUSIVE: HBO's streaming walled garden is coming down, it seems.  —  In a hugely surprising move, Deadline understands …
Washington Post:
ProPublica reporters and other staff are unionizing; president Robin Sparkman and EIC Stephen Engleberg say ProPublica plans to recognize the union  —  The donor-supported hub for investigative reporting isn't grappling with the same economic strains as its corporate peers.  Its staffers still want a union anyway.
Zosha Millman / Polygon:
Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene  —  ‘It just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity’  —  The world of Secret Invasion is decidedly sketchy.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Geraldo Rivera says Fox News took him off The Five; in early May, he complained that he had “been canceled” from upcoming broadcasts of the show  —  Rivera had been tapped to be one of the late-afternoon chat show's regular “liberal” co-hosts last year, but he has seen his appearances dry up in recent months.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Discussion: TechCrunch
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix tweaks its weekly top 10 rankings to sort by “views”, calculated by dividing the time spent watching a film or a show in a week by its running time  —  The streamer's weekly rankings will now show the most popular titles by number of accounts watching as well as total time.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Disney criticizes the UK's draft Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Bill, saying the law would “micro-manage” how streamers interact with users  —  EXCLUSIVE: Disney has raised serious concerns about new UK laws that will require it to send contract renewal notices …
Discussion: The Streamable
Yonhap News Agency:
Sources say YouTube plans to launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30 with content from about 30 brands  —  YouTube will launch its official shopping channel in South Korea for live commerce later this month for the first time in the world, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
 
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Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel:
Gear Patrol, a publication and content studio focused on broader consumer products, acquires digital photography site DPReview from Amazon
Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with Margaret Sullivan about American Crisis, her new Substack podcast that she says will address whether journalism can help save democracy
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
WBD begins layoffs in its domestic cable group, affecting ~100 people across Discovery and Turner outlets; more cuts are expected in other divisions this summer
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Candle Media partners with TikTok, initially focusing on Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine brand to find and mine authors and literary material from #BookTok
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee and American Horror Story, plans to leave Netflix for Disney; Murphy joined Netflix in 2018 for a reported ~$300M