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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Snap Hires McDonald’s Exec Kenny Mitchell as First Chief Marketing Officer
Mitchell joins Snapchat parent company as it introduces new shows and video games to run ads against
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Steve Burke Compares Current State of Streaming to ‘Cable in the 1970s or 1980s’
NBCUniversal CEO says he’ll launch his SVOD platform in “about a year”
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Netflix Raises Additional $2 Billion, Pushes Debt Load Past $12 Billion Overall
Streaming giant is spending big to keep the hits coming — and keep its subscriber lead on new competitors
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Facebook Expects Potential $5 Billion in FTC Fines, Stock Still Soars 5 Percent on Q1 User Growth
Social network sets aside billions of dollars for ongoing FTC investigation into its user data practices
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Facebook Says Internal System Was Unprepared for New Zealand Shooting Livestream
First-person livestream of the shooting “was a type of video we had not seen before,” Facebook policy director Neil Potts tells U.K. lawmakers
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9 Million US Netflix Subscribers Might Drop Service for Disney+, Survey Finds
Streaming Observer finds that 14.5% of U.S. Netflix subscribers could drop it for Disney — while another 20% plan on subscribing to both
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Snapchat’s User Growth Returns, Stock Rockets 8% on Strong Q1 Performance
Snap Inc. reports it added 4 million users during the first quarter — the first time it’s reported positive user growth in a year
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Fox News Will Host Pete Buttigieg Town Hall in May
The network has already hosted Democratic hopefuls Howard Schultz and Bernie Sanders
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Joe Scarborough Claps Back at Trump for Calling Him ‘Morning Psycho’: ‘He Just Can’t Quit Us’
MSNBC host laughs after the president says Scarborough “helped get me elected in 2016”
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Trump Rips NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman: ‘Obsessed With Hatred’
President then says thepaper will need to “get down on their knees” and apologize to him for unfavorable coverage
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Twitter Adds 8 Million Daily Users, Runs Past Wall Street’s Q1 Revenue Estimates
Shares jump more than 6 percent after company posts impressive user and financial growth
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Prince’s Memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ Set for Release This Fall
Book published by Random House will include never-before-seen photos and handwritten lyrics
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Netflix Tests Feature That Picks Shows and Episodes at Random
Streamer could adopt a new feature that harkens back to a time when viewers couldn’t pick and choose what was on
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I Lived Like Jack Dorsey for a Week. It Wasn’t Easy
Cold showers and fasting are hellish — but there are some advantages to the Twitter chief’s daily routine
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Netflix to Open New York City Production Hub
Streamer bringing “up to $100 million in investments to the city,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo says