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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR suspended Uri Berliner for five days without pay, starting on April 12, after he wrote an essay accusing NPR of losing the public's trust — NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had “lost America's trust” …
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Internal email: Participant Media, which backed films like Green Book and Spotlight, is shutting down; sources: almost all of its 100 employees will be let go — Participant, the 20-year-old film and television production company whose mission was to inspire social justice and humanitarian action, is shutting down.
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New York Times, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, @mattdonnelly, @monstris and The Hollywood Reporter
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube strengthens its “enforcement on third-party apps” violating its ToS, “specifically ad-blocking apps”, leading to error messages and “buffering issues” — Following the ad blocker crackdown, YouTube is explicitly going after third-party …
CNN:
Smartmatic and OANN say they have settled a defamation suit filed by the voting tech company, filed in 2021 — CNN — — Voting technology company Smartmatic and the far-right network One America News said Tuesday they have reached a confidential settlement over a defamation lawsuit stemming …
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The Hill, Mediaite, Forbes, The Daily Beast, @jeremymbarr and Deadline
Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
Publications should suspend paywalls for all 2024 US election coverage, as they get in the way of the public being informed, the foundation of democracy — The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election — How many times has it happened?
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify says 25% of paid users in the US, UK, and Australia have started an audiobook as part of their subscriptions; 57% are between 18 and 34 years old — - Spotify listeners skew younger, with 57% age 18 to 34 — Certain subscribers receive 15 hours of listening per month
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@taylorbuley and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Mozilla and CheckFirst: Apple, Google, Meta, and others' ad transparency efforts are a work in progress, months after the EU's DSA mandated a searchable library — Efforts by tech giants to be more transparent about the ads they run are — at very best — still a work in progress …
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Mozilla Foundation, more at Techmeme »
Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
New Zealand's Stuff Group signs a deal with WBD to provide WBD's New Zealand TV channel with a 6PM daily news program; WBD plans to close Newshub on July 5 — New Zealand media site Stuff Group said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: the BBC plans to stop automatic annual pay increases for its highest-paid employees and instead hand them raises based on their performance — EXCLUSIVE: The BBC wants to overhaul how it awards salary rises to its highest-paid employees and presenters, Deadline understands.
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@jake_kanter and @bsdtectr.bsky.social
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Dozens of Alden-owned newspapers ran editorials over the weekend arguing that Google's threat to cut off news in California “is a bully tactic” — Meta has threatened the same. — The editorials ran in many of Alden's California-based outlets, including the San Jose Mercury News …
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@sarafischer, Inside Radio and Media Nation
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 — TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.
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Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Two studies find Facebook blocking news in Canada could undermine political discourse by increasing user engagement with opinion and non-verified content — Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall …
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