Mediagazer: Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Jed Rosenzweig / LateNighter:

Paramount has shut down its Comedy Central website, which held The Daily Show clips and the full run of The Colbert Report, after its shutdown of MTV News' site — First on LateNighter: One of the richest repositories of late-night videos is no longer. — ComedyCentral.com had been home …

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Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:

A look at WaPo's leadership issues under Jeff Bezos, as his hands-off approach and selection of publishers left the paper without a long-term strategy — How the world's greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch — If you want to understand the current crisis at The Washington Post …

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Jon Allsop / Vanity Fair:
Will Lewis should be held accountable as a powerful executive and not simply seen through a parochial US lens that views UK journalists as having lax ethics

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Time strikes a multi-year content licensing deal with OpenAI; Time will gain access to OpenAI's tech and tools to develop new products — - It also gives the AI giant access to Time's real-time content to help answer user queries as news unfolds. — Under the agreement …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming — The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming so subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream a variety of games directly to Fire TV devices.

Discussion: 9to5Google, Xbox Wire, Digital Trends and TechRadar, more at Techmeme »

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

Sewell Chan, EIC of The Texas Tribune, is named executive editor of CJR; Tribune managing editor Matthew Watkins will become EIC when Chan departs in September — He joins after leading The Texas Tribune for three years. — Sewell Chan, the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune …

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Gene Park / Washington Post:

An interview with Netflix's VP of external games Leanne Loombe on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more — I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”

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Song Jung-a / Financial Times:

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B — Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …

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Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co:

A look at what has happened to the US box office since 2000 and how the pandemic accelerated the decline in per capita theatrical admissions by roughly 15 years — Over the last six months, there has been a lot of talk about the future of theatrical exhibition ("going to the movies") …

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Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:

Two groups of Sandy Hook families disagree on whether Infowars' parent company FSS should go into bankruptcy or whether they should take control of FSS assets — In 2021 and 2022, two sets of families of the 20 children murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting won separate defamation suits against Alex Jones.

Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:

The Oaklandside's publisher, Cityside, launches Richmondside in Richmond, CA, a town where the top employer, Chevron, owns the primary news source — Last month, I talked to Floodlight's Miranda Green and NPR's David Folkenflik about how they teamed up to investigate a news site owned by Chevron.

Discussion: @tigerbeat, @khulacrichmond and @davidfolkenflik

Alex Sherman / CNBC:

A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6% — WATCH NOW — It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.

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NewsGuild of New York:

Members of The NewsGuild of New York vote 1,229 to 599 to make a temporary dues rate of 1.75% permanent; the rate had been set to expire on September 30, 2024 — NEW YORK - In a resounding display of solidarity and as an investment in the future of their union, members of The NewsGuild …

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