Eileen AJ Connelly is a veteran journalist and educator who joined TheWrap in 2022 as a business reporter. She’s covered the insurance industry, the real estate industry and Wall Street for a number of publications and previously worked at The Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswires, the Staten Island Advance. She is also an editor at the New York Post and teaches journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Experience:
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Sling TV Raises Monthly Price by $5, Blames Rising Programming Costs
The live TV streaming service saw Disney channels pulled over carriage dispute last month
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Penguin Random House Courts Simon & Schuster to Support Its Buyout Appeal (Report)
The two companies have until Nov. 21 to reach an agreement on fighting the federal judge’s decision nixing $2.2 billion deal
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Paramount Misses Expectations as Q3 Profit Plunges on Weak Ad Sales
Streaming subscriptions reached nearly 67 million, but could not offset disappointing advertising
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Disney+ Launches Subscriber-Only Merchandise Test Featuring ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel Exclusives
The streaming service is experimenting with combining shopDisney and popular titles ahead of holiday shopping season
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Judge Blocks $2.2 Billion Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster Merger
The planned deal would have combined the largest and third-largest book publishers in the U.S.
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Fox Credits Midterm Ad Surge for Topping Revenue Forecasts With $3.19 Billion in Q1
The television giant said its deliberations on recombining with News Corp, the publishing arm split off in 2013, will continue
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Peacock Adds 2 Million Subs in Q3 as NBCU Pumps Up Original Programming and Sports
The streaming service says paid subscribers top 15 million as total users climb to nearly 30 million
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Kanye ‘Ye’ West Claims He Lost $2 Billion in 1 Day in Fallout From Antisemitic Comments
“This is love speech,” the rapper posted on Instagram; “The money is not who I am”
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Comcast Tops Wall Street Expectations Even as it Swings to Q3 Loss on 1.5% Revenue Slip
The company is moving to cut costs and appears ready to launch layoffs despite growth at Peacock, ‘record profits’ at theme parks and studio
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Entertainment Stocks Rise With Market Ahead of Slew of Earnings Reports
YouTube parent Alphabet kicks off this week’s list of social media, streaming and film company reports after the market closes Tuesday
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Brittney Griner’s 9-Year Sentence Upheld by Russian Court
The WNBA star took part in the hearing via video from a penal colony, where she will remain if U.S. government can’t negotiate her release
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Release Spurs Wave of Spotify Outages
As “Midnights” landed, thousands reported they were unable to stream the Grammy winner’s highly anticipated 10th album
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Steve Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Jail for Defying Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena
The former Trump White House adviser will also pay $6,500 in fines
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Elon Musk Looks to Gut 75% of Twitter Staff After Buyout, Could Cripple Moderation (Report)
The social media company also plans to eliminate about 25% of staff if the deal doesn’t go through next week as planned
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Investment Scam Snares Confederacy-Themed Superhero Movie ‘Rebel’s Run’
A con artist reportedly took right-wing producer Theodore Beale’s $1 million — and ran
