Alexei Barrionuevo is the Business Editor at TheWrap. He previously served as an editor at Billboard, and before that as a staff writer at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has worked as a correspondent based in Brazil, Belgium and Venezuela.
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Apollo’s $11 Billion Bid for Paramount Ignites Bidding War | Analysis
The offer may be too good to ignore for majority owner Shari Redstone, analysts say
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UTA vs. Michael Kassan: A $125 Million Deal With an Advertising Powerhouse Blows Up
Kassan claims UTA retaliated after he quit in March. The agency alleges he misspent millions on a “lavish personal lifestyle”
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Bob Iger Plans to Leverage Epic Games Deal to Build Disney Universe That Lives ‘Side by Side to Fortnite’
“We were really impressed with what Epic had been able to accomplish with ‘Fortnite,’” the CEO said at Tuesday’s Morgan Stanley conference
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Paramount Global Races to Make Streaming a Profit Center – But the Clock Is Ticking | Analysis
The scale of linear TV losses has stunned Wall Street and Paramount is running out of time to go it alone
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Disney’s Iger Plays Offense, Touting New Investments, Streaming Initiatives After Earnings Win
Analysis: The CEO showed his mettle as he promised to fine tune the company’s creative strategy and offset declining linear assets
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Why Bob Iger Won’t Sell Disney’s Linear Assets | Exclusive
As Netflix tells the industry that M&A cannot save broadcast TV, Disney’s embattled CEO is still resisting a sale
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Chaos, Fury Engulf Los Angeles Times in Historic Cuts to Newsroom
Latino and Black staffing is reduced by a third, D.C. bureau shuttered and prize winners given pink slips
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Newsroom Meddling, Money Woes: How A Billionaire Owner Lost His Star Editor at the Los Angeles Times | Exclusive
Respected editor Kevin Merida abruptly resigned last week after getting fed up with owner interference in the newsroom
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Elon Musk Seems ‘Hell-Bent on Destroying’ X, Say Media Experts
After promoting antisemitic tweets, the billionaire battles back by suing watchdog Media Matters, saying it created a misleading perception
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TikTok Spreads Disinformation in Israel-Gaza War as It Rises as Primary News Source for Youth
A Pew study says young people who use the social media platform as a news source has more than tripled since 2020
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Disney Goes All-in on Streaming – But Is It Too Late to Catch Netflix? | Analysis
With one Hulu and Disney+ app, CEO Bob Iger commits to “significant and sustained profitability” in streaming, but domestic growth remains sluggish
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AI Dominates Tech Earnings, Highlighting Competitive Advantages | Analysis
Alphabet, Meta and Amazon touted advertising efficiencies from AI initiatives and boasted about their dizzying pace of innovation
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Death in the Desert: When Hamas Came to an Israeli Rave, Friends Perished
Festival-goers Ofek Baribi and Eden Abdulayev danced together at sunrise, and then violence parted them
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