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4:05 PM ET, June 16, 2024

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New York Times:
A former colleague and records indicate WaPo's Will Lewis and Robert Winnett used fraudulently obtained records in Sunday Times articles in the early 2000s  —  Years before becoming the Post's publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.
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New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos appears to be standing by Publisher and CEO Will Lewis and has envisioned WaPo growing to reach 100M subscribers from its current 2.5M  —  The Amazon founder has expressed his support to Will Lewis, the C.E.O., who has faced widespread criticism this month.
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Pixar's Inside Out 2 grosses $155M in the US and Canada, 2024's biggest opening weekend, and $295M globally, the biggest in history for an animated film  —  - Animated sequel tops ‘Dune: Part Two’ for 2024's highest bow  — Opening is boon for theaters and for Disney's rebounding Pixar
Adam Ganucheau / New York Times:
The defamation suit from former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant against Mississippi Today could become a political playbook to dismantle US press freedoms  —  Slow-moving lawsuits intended to drain newsrooms of their limited financial resources and editorial bandwidth.
Associated Press:
A bankruptcy judge orders the liquidation of Alex Jones' personal assets but dismisses for now the bankruptcy case against the company that runs Infowars  —  A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The movie The Apprentice has yet to find a US distributor, suggesting that some media companies may have already been intimidated by Trump and his supporters  —  This week I finally got to see “The Apprentice,” an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at the growing popularity of Tubi as streaming prices rise; Nielsen: May was Tubi's most-watched month ever, with an average of 1M viewers, up 46% YoY  —  In the era of “streamflation,” it's a good time to be Tubi.  —  Subscription prices for Netflix, Disney+, Max and Peacock …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding  —  After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down.
 
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Michael Schaffer / Politico:
Sources say the publisher Little, Brown canceled prominent journalist Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, partly due to Carlson's mainstream absence
Meg Anderson / NPR:
A look at Prison Mirror, one of the US' oldest prison newspapers, running since 1887, made by and for the people held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
The Insider Union asks BI management to share details of its OpenAI licensing deal, citing issues with ChatGPT's inaccurate or missing links to Insider scoops
Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?:
A look at the problems of new legislation to support journalism, through state tax money or fees on Big Tech, in California, New York, and Canada
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
A US judge orders X's lawsuit against Media Matters over accusations of misrepresenting the amount of antisemitic content on X will go to trial on April 7, 2025
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