Mediagazer: Spotify had total Q3 revenue of €1.97B, up 14% YoY, ARPU of €4.19, down 10% YoY, with 320M MAUs, up 29% YoY, and 144M paying subscribers, up 27% YoY (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)

10:25 AM ET, October 29, 2020

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Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:

Internal email: Spotify defends Joe Rogan interviewing Alex Jones, saying it won't “ban specific individuals from being guests on other people's shows” — In public, Spotify is staying quiet about an appearance by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yesterday on its flagship podcast …

Roisin O'Connor / The Independent:

Spotify comes under criticism after Joe Rogan interviewed Alex Jones in a three-hour episode of his podcast on Tuesday; Jones was banned from Spotify in 2018 — Jones was banned from Spotify, as well as Facebook, Apple and YouTube, in 2018 — Spotify is under fire after Joe Rogan invited …

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:

Spotify had total Q3 revenue of €1.97B, up 14% YoY, ARPU of €4.19, down 10% YoY, with 320M MAUs, up 29% YoY, and 144M paying subscribers, up 27% YoY — Listening time, revenue increased as use in cars and homes grew — Spotify Technology SA moved past a slump that hit early in the pandemic …

Discussion: CNN, Variety, 9to5Mac, @kerrymflynn, The Verge, Business Wire, @kerrymflynn, @kerrymflynn and Spotify, more at Techmeme »

BBC:

BBC issues social media guidelines prohibiting staff from criticizing colleagues, “virtue signaling”, and expressing personal opinions on public policy, more — The BBC has issued new guidance on social media usage, which will force staff to maintain impartiality.

Helen Coster / Reuters:

Comcast Q3: NBCU earnings down 38.7% YoY to $1.3B; revenue of $6.7B, down 19% YoY; ~22M Peacock signups; film revenue down 25% YoY to $1.3B, offset by licensing — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp CMCSA.O on Thursday reported better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, as strong sign-ups …

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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:

Though media coverage of Biden's chances is cautious, recent Trump scandals are getting little coverage likely because outlets think he won't win — You can teach old journalists the occasional new trick, but two? Forget it. — The 2016 election persuaded the press to avoid publicly presuming …

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Nancy Scola / Politico:

Profile of Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy, trust & safety, who sources say led it to a tougher line on speech, including a ban on political ads — On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company's San Francisco roof deck and dug into a problem.

Discussion: TechCrunch, @johnhendel, @nancyscola, @twittercomms, @amydiehl, @nancyscola, @nancyscola, @nancyscola, @politico and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

Burl Gilyard / Twin Cities Business:

Star Tribune abruptly shuts City Pages, a 40-year-old alt weekly in Minneapolis, citing the pandemic and without seeking a buyer — The alt weekly's key advertisers have been hit hard by pandemic. — Minneapolis-based Star Tribune Media Co. announced Wednesday morning that it was abruptly shutting …

New York Times:

In a Senate hearing on Section 230, Republican senators said tech companies were censoring conservative views; Democrats called the hearing a political sham — Republican senators accused the leaders of Twitter, Facebook and Google of censorship. Democrats denounced that as posturing.

Discussion: Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Variety, Ad Age, VentureBeat, Pew Research Center, Fortune, Wired, @evan_greer, @evanderburg, @ceciliakang, @b_fung, @ceciliakang, @pierce and @evanderburg, more at Techmeme »

Pew Research Center:

Pew: 79% of US adults say news coverage favors one side and 83% blame the unfair coverage on media outlets, not on individual journalists — The November general election is rapidly approaching, with debates raging over how fairly news outlets are covering the candidates and important issues.

Discussion: @pewjournalism

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

Many of UK's leading news outlets ran articles saying that department store Woolworths was reopening based on a typo-strewn Twitter account run by a 17-year-old — Dozens of news sites ran articles saying chain was back based on a typo-strewn Twitter page — The person who duped …

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