Mediagazer: Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey (Angelica Mari/ZDNet)

Florida county commissioners block funding for a NYT digital subscription for the libraries; one called the paper “fake news” he doesn't want in the county — Citrus County residents reacted strongly over the weekend with the news that county commissioners blocked the library system …

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Paul Maidment resigns as editorial director of G/O Media effective immediately to pursue “an entrepreneurial opportunity” — Paul Maidment says it “has been a great honor” to work at G/O Media. — G/O Media's editorial director Paul Maidment has left the company less than a week …

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Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:

G/O's demand that Deadspin stick to sports is foolish, as much of what happens in sports is a result of power, money, and the culture in which athletes operate — Two years ago, Sports Illustrated, which had been a weekly magazine for decades, began publishing just thirty-nine issues a year.

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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

The Texas Tribune shuts TribTalk, its sister site of contributed opinion pieces and sponsored content, after five years, citing little traffic and social shares — “It was a good sandbox to see if there's a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we'd treat them in a design and workflow way …

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Washington Post:

Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

The Hill is launching a new “centrist” site, Changing America, which claims to be nonpartisan, with former Smithsonian mag EIC Michael Caruso leading editorial — The Hill, a news outlet that gained notoriety as a font for Ukraine-oriented conspiracy theories …

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Alex Williams / New York Times:

Post #MeToo, signs emerge that glossy men's mags are backpedaling from the formula that kept them at the pinnacle of publishing for a half-century — The boys' club of glossy publishing confronts an identity crisis. — Imagine if Kodak had answered the threat of digital photography by pivoting from film to outdoor grills.

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Angelica Mari / ZDNet:

Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey — The country is the second largest market for the format in the world, and players such as Spotify want to capitalize on that growth.

Julia Alexander / The Verge:

Sources: Disney will run ads for Starz on the login pages for Disney+ and ESPN+ in exchange for streaming rights for films it had licensed to Starz — At the center of the deal is Star Wars — Disney+ and ESPN+ will run ads promoting the premium TV channel Starz, The Verge has learned.

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Geoffrey Supran / HEATED:

Twitter bans environmental groups' climate-related ads, but allows Exxon to run what can only be considered issue ads as they don't promote products — But a Harvard researcher says Exxon's ads “epitomize the art” of political advertising. — Welcome to HEATED, a newsletter for people …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Sources: sports streaming service DAZN plans to make nearly all of its non-live content available for free to build awareness of its exclusive content — DAZN, an international sports streaming company that launched a year ago in the U.S., is on the horizon of a major live sporting events acquisition spree, sources tell Axios.

Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:

YouTube announces “Shopping” ads, a scrollable catalog of static images, which will appear on the home feed and in search results — Puma among first brands to utilize new ad format — YouTube is introducing “Shopping” ads in time for the holiday season.

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