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Reddit priced its IPO at $34 per share, the top of its expected range, raising $519M and valuing the company at about $6.5B, ahead of its market debut — - Reddit priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, valuing the social media company at about $6.5 billion.
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The Newhouse family's Advance is set to reap a $1.4B windfall when Reddit lists on the NYSE on Thursday; Advance's Condé Nast bought Reddit for $10M in 2006 — The Newhouse family, which controls the Advance media empire, made a 2006 investment of $10 million in the social site, which plans to go public on Thursday.
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: private equity firm Apollo Global Management has made an $11B offer to buy Paramount Global's film and TV studio — Offer comes as Paramount's directors are weighing merger with Skydance — Private-equity firm Apollo Global Management has made an $11 billion offer …
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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Bill Jorgensen, a broadcast journalist who anchored The 10 O'Clock News on New York's Channel 5 for 12 years, died on March 13 at 96 — Getting his start in the Midwest, he was best known for leading the New York broadcast “The 10 O'Clock News.” — Bill Jorgensen, a serious-minded broadcast journalist …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
NBCUniversal unveils new features coming to Peacock ahead of the Paris Olympics in July, including the ability to view up to four simultaneous matches — Today, during NBCUniversal's annual technology conference, One24, the company revealed a slew of features coming to its streaming service Peacock ahead …
Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic:
The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform — America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication platforms from foreign control.
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David Gilbert / Wired:
X suspends the accounts of some journalists and researchers who posted the alleged real name of neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss, after Stonetoss appealed to Musk — Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A US federal judge dismisses DirecTV's lawsuit from March 2023 that accused Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity around the retransmission consent fees — A federal judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit that DirecTV filed against Nexstar last year accusing the TV station giant …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Deloitte study: US consumers pay an average of $61 per month for four video streaming services, up 27% YoY; 36% say available content is not worth the price — Streaming video services continue to face challenges like high costs, high churn rates and competition from other media …
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
LGBTQ+ publisher Q.Digital has acquired Outsports from Vox Media's SB Nation in an all-stock deal; all seven members of the Outsports team moved to Q.Digital — LGBTQ+ publisher Q.Digital has acquired Outsports from Vox Media. The deal was an all-stock equity transaction in which the co-founders …
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
PEN America donates emergency funds for Palestinian writers and invites critics to meet with its leadership to discuss PEN's response to the Israel-Gaza war — The writers group is also making a ‘substantial financial contribution’ to fund for distribution to Palestinian writers
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 walked off the job March 20 in a 24-hour work stoppage to protest layoffs; workers said Law360 cut 10% of the staff — Unionized editorial workers, represented by The NewsGuild of New York at LexisNexis-owned Law360, have walked off the job in a 24-hour work stoppage to protest layoffs.
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