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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: 65 mins ago

Candle Media, run by ex-Disney execs Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, will buy Spanish-language studio Exile; a source says Candle is involved in deals worth ~$4B

Reuters: 1½ hours ago

Denmark passes a law forcing streaming services to pay a levy of 6% of their revenue in the country to support local TV production, following Spain and others

Brian Steinberg / Variety: 2 hours ago

Greta Van Susteren will join Newsmax in June to lead its 6pm show, saying all networks she has worked for, including CNN and Fox News, have had controversies

Sara Fischer / Axios: 2 hours ago

An interview with Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on the company's expansion into lifestyle verticals, such as outdoors and books, alongside NFTs and betting

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: 2½ hours ago

Spotify is slowly bringing back political ads on podcasts after pausing them in early 2020, and says it has strengthened its advertiser verification system

Sara Fischer / Axios:

An interview with Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch on the company's expansion into lifestyle verticals, such as outdoors and books, alongside NFTs and betting

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

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:

Candle Media, run by ex-Disney execs Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, will buy Spanish-language studio Exile; a source says Candle is involved in deals worth ~$4B

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

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

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”

Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:

A profile of Twitter account New York Times Pitchbot, run by a math professor mocking the NYT's lazy constructions, half-baked hot takes, and diner interviews

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

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

Los Angeles Times:

A look at the rapid growth of free streaming channels in recent years, as users get more sophisticated about mixing and matching services that meet their needs

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

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

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