Sean is a business reporter who covers tech and media for TheWrap based in New York City. His beat includes companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as notable industry figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sean covers the news landscape and closely watches digital media.
Experience:
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Uber Shares Slump as Ride-Hailing Giant Makes Wall Street Debut
San Francisco-based company starts trading at $42 per share after pegging its IPO at $45 per share
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Despite Facebook Co-Founder’s Call for a Breakup, Antitrust Experts Say It’s a Long Shot – Here’s Why
“The likelihood that any court would find Facebook has thus far violated any antitrust laws is low,” one legal scholar says
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Business
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Disney Takes $353 Million Q1 Write-Down on Vice Media
Mouse House takes big hit only four years after investing $400 million in the millennial-focused digital media company
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Roku Says Customers Watched 9 Billion Hours of Content in Q1, Stock Pops 7%
Viewers watch 3.4 hours of content per day on average, according to the popular device maker
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Yahoo Finance Launches New Web Series on Celebrity Financial Lessons
Comedian Nick Kroll will be the first guest dishing out monetary advice on “My Three Cents,” hosted by Jen Rogers
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Uber, Lyft Drivers Strike Ahead of Uber’s $90 Billion Wall Street Debut
Protesters from London to San Francisco are seeking better wages as benefits from the two dominant ride-hailing apps
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Twitter Bans Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Parody Account for ‘Manipulation’
The company says parody accounts aren’t an issue — as long as they don’t mislead users
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Why Instagram Hiding ‘Likes’ Could Be Good for Users – and the Bottom Line
Likes impact the brain in the same way sex and gambling do — and can lead to compulsive phone checking — one expert tells TheWrap
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Journalism
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Instagram to Develop Alert System for Vaccine Misinformation
New notification would come as measles cases hit a 25-year high in the U.S.
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Hollywood’s Highest Paid Executives: Who Made Bank, Who Sank in 2018 (Updating)
David Zaslav and Leslie Moonves had very different years
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TV
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How to Watch the 2019 Daytime Emmy Awards Online
46th annual event, hosted by Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood, will be livestreamed on several platforms
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New Orleans Times-Picayune’s Entire Staff Laid Off After Paper’s Sale
161 staff members will lose their jobs after being bought by The Advocate
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Luke Perry Laid to Rest in Eco-Friendly ‘Mushroom Burial Suit,’ Daughter Says
The green funeral option fulfilled one of the “Riverdale” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” star’s “final wishes”
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Snoop Dogg Rips Facebook for Ban on ‘Dear Brother’ Louis Farrakhan
“I stand with him. Ban me motherf—–!” rapper says after Nation of Islam leader is purged from Facebook and Instagram
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George RR Martin Offers Updates on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoffs
“Three of them are still moving forward nicely,” author says
