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Wall Street Journal: Conan O'Brien sells his hit podcast “Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend” and his Team Coco media company to SiriusXM, sources say for ~$150M -
Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter: How the new, more diverse editorial leadership in broadcast, cable, digital, and print media is changing newsrooms and guiding coverage to be more inclusive -
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: Interview with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie on building “a true alternative to the attention economy” by expanding into podcasts and videos, and more -
Dan Milmo / The Guardian: YouTube takes down 70K+ videos and 9K+ channels about the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including videos referring to a “liberation mission” -
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney depart Saturday Night Live after its 47th season finale; McKinnon was in a female-record 211 episodes -
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Warner Bros. Discovery may be a compelling company, because of its content and a strategy that sees streaming as an addition to the old model, not a replacement -
Brian Steinberg / Variety: The Weather Channel will add a livestream of its cable channel to its connected TV apps, available for free to cable subscribers or for $2.99 per month -
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: A look at Lara Logan's journey from being a CBS News star to working on far-right fringe causes, like vaccine skepticism, denying the 2020 US election, and more -
Mike Isaac / New York Times: Meta plans to give outside researchers more info on political ad targeting on Facebook and Instagram and to update Ad Library with more info starting in July -
Reuters: Netflix agrees to settle a tax dispute in Italy for $59M; prosecutors argued cables and servers used by Netflix amounted to a physical presence in the country -
Lara Seligman / Politico: The US Air Force is reviewing a rule banning foreigners from using electronics on flights and apologizes to Reuters' Idrees Ali for taking his phone on DoD trip