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Sources: Quartz has been put up for sale by Japan's Uzabase, which expects to sell the site at a significant discount from the $86M it paid for it in 2018 — Japan's Uzabase expects to sell the business news site for far less than the $110 million it paid in 2018
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Axios:
Democrats on US House committee urge changes to antitrust law, including letting news publishers team up to negotiate vs. tech platforms who want their content — The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday laid out Democrats' vision of a U.S. antitrust policy built to rein in Google, Apple …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Howard Stern is nearing a contract renewal with Sirius XM that would boost his pay to about $120M a year, from $80M to $100M now — Howard Stern, the radio shock jock who's maintained his star power in the podcasting era, is nearing a contract renewal with Sirius XM Holdings Inc …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and the CW secured between $8.2B and $9.8B for 2020-2021 primetime schedules, down from between $9.6B and $10.8B in the 2019-2020 season — Depending on who is doing the talking, TV's 2020 “upfront” market was absolutely horrendous or merely awful.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
With its Monday “town hall” featuring undecided voters in Miami, a Democratic-leaning county, NBC gave Biden a nationally televised, hourlong infomercial — NBC's Monday night event with the Democratic nominee was a town hall in name only. — Biden did his best to explain …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia Today has been boosted in the US by a traffic-swapping network dominated by conservative media sites like The Daily Caller and National Review — The Kremlin-backed outlet has been boosted by a news aggregator dominated by conservative media sites — On any given day over the past two years …
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NBC News:
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all “Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts” that represent QAnon — Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Following McEnany's diagnosis, reporters say they are furious about WH's cavalier attitude toward their safety and criticize the timidity of WHCA's statement — Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's COVID-19 diagnosis has only added to journalists' frustration—and anxiety—at 1600 Penn.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News launches a book label, Fox News Books, through HarperCollins, with the first book written by Fox & Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth — The first two books from the imprint will be written by Pete Hegseth and Shannon Bream. — Fox News hosts and anchors have long leveraged …
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Matthew Moore / The Times:
Sources: British satirical show Spitting Image is not being screened in the US after NBC backed out at the last moment for fear of offending powerful people — They have a Donald Trump puppet, a Joe Biden puppet, even a Michelle Obama puppet. What the Spitting Image team don't have …
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Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:
Google Ads introduces an Insights page, automated Performance Max campaigns, and will bring Video Action out of beta to all advertisers in the coming weeks — Google introduced more automation features and campaign types as part of Advertising Week Tuesday.
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Bloomberg:
How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications — Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory's biggest news hub.
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