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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: Sources: Paramount is considering scrapping its plans to launch Paramount+ in India this year in favor of selling more programming to JioCinema -
Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta VP of Media Partnerships Campbell Brown says she's stepping down from the role in the fall but staying on as a consultant, as Meta backs away from news -
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada -
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: A US district judge rules that Disney must face an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of inflating the cost of streaming live TV via its ownership of Hulu and ESPN -
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian: A profile of Jimmy Lai, the owner of now closed Apple Daily and one of Hong Kong's most outspoken pro-democracy activists, as he marks 1,000 days in prison -
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Code in the latest build of the Spotify app suggests the company is working on AI-generated playlists based on users' prompts -
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: The Guardian, The Mirror, Reach sites, and The National take down some stories about Dan Wootton; a source says the moves follow a warning by Wootton's lawyer -
Todd Spangler / Variety: In honor of “Mean Girls” day, Paramount launches an official TikTok account for the movie and makes the 47-minute film, broken into 23 clips, available for free -
Ben Strauss / Washington Post: A look at the scoop wars between NBA reporters Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania, the impact on other NBA beat reporters, and their usefulness to the league -
Dalya Alberge / The Guardian: A look at County Highway, a new, $8.50 print-only newspaper published six times a year with a retro 19th-century look, no advertising, and a focus on the US -
Bron Maher / Press Gazette: A profile of The Examination, a new nonprofit global health outlet with 12 employees and a partnership model to work with outlets based in areas it covers -
New York Times: Spotify starts offering Premium subscribers 15 hours of audiobook streaming per month across 150K+ titles, first in the UK and Australia, and the US this winter -
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: MrBeast asks whether social media platforms are “ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes” after a deepfake scam TikTok ad, since deleted, used his likeness