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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: 10 mins ago

Amazon signs multi-year deal with the WNBA giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 regular season games and the Commissioner's Cup game

John General / CNN: 70 mins ago

Profile of DeShuna Spencer, who founded the streaming service kweliTV in 2015 to focus on Black stories; kweliTV now has 43,000 users despite lack of VC funding

A.D. Amorosi / Variety: 10 hours ago

Podcaster Joe Budden fires his co-hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay, and the future of his eponymous six-year-old show appears uncertain

Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:

Ellen DeGeneres says she is ending her show in 2022, insisting it has been “the plan all along” and is not because of bullying allegations

Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:

Amazon signs multi-year deal with the WNBA giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16 regular season games and the Commissioner's Cup game

John General / CNN:

Profile of DeShuna Spencer, who founded the streaming service kweliTV in 2015 to focus on Black stories; kweliTV now has 43,000 users despite lack of VC funding

A.D. Amorosi / Variety:

Podcaster Joe Budden fires his co-hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil “Mal” Clay, and the future of his eponymous six-year-old show appears uncertain

Detroit News:

Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations

Laura Wagner / Defector:

Docs and interviews with ~30 current and former staff at The Appeal show a demoralizing culture, especially for women and POC, questions about donors, and more

Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:

Former DNC finance chair Henry R. Muñoz III acquires Funny or Die from a group that includes AMC Networks, Turner Entertainment, and Sequoia Capital

Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World:

An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services

Erika Kinetz / Associated Press:

Investigation: an army of bots covertly amplify Chinese propaganda on Twitter by retweeting posts from diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times

Mark Stenberg / Medialyte:

As platforms roll out monetization tools for creators, journalists and writers gain leverage and a glimmer of hope that they're worth more than they realized

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Fox News says it will launch new weekend programs hosted by Dan Bongino and former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy

Peter White / Deadline:

IAB: podcast ad revenue in the US grew 19% in 2020 to hit $842M, up from $708M in 2019 and $479M in 2018, and is set to reach $2B by 2023

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