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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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New York Times:
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently — Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line.
Aman Sethi / @amannama:
HuffPost India has shut down and all of its content seems to have been deleted — Today is @huffpostIndia's last day. Pound for pound, story for story, reporter for reporter, this is the greatest newsroom I have worked for; (and I still can't quite believe I had the privilege to lead) Thank you everyone for reading our stories and supporting our journalism
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
WarnerMedia releasing Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max alongside theaters signals the importance of streaming to studios and represents an emerging industry norm — The announcement that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day is the clearest sign …
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Steven Levy / Wired:
As more writers join Substack, subscription fatigue and the pressure to deliver continuous value to paying readers may push many back to traditional pubs — Plus: The threat of blogs, the balkanization of social media, and a new record for America's mayor. — HAS there ever been a worse year than 2020?
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@jaredbkeller, @gettingsome, @sandraupson, @lanceulanoff and @ggreenwald
Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after the number of ads served rose by a quarterly average of ~30% YoY since Q3'15 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network
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Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Trump's clear election loss has widened the split in the right-wing online information ecosystem between those that choose reality and those that choose Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Nonprofit ad group Ad Council is planning a $50M campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines to skeptical Americans, after a similar polio campaign in the 1950s — The nonprofit marketing group led a polio vaccine campaign in the 1950s. Now it is working on a $50 million ad blitz to counter concerns about coming treatments.
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Peter White / Deadline:
Walt Disney Television CFO and president of business operations Ravi Ahuja is stepping down — Ravi Ahuja, who is president of business operations and chief financial officer at Walt Disney Television, is stepping down. — Ahuja, who was formerly CFO of Fox Networks Group, took the position after Disney's acquisition of Fox.
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Elaine Low / Variety:
Netflix says it will expand its footprint in New Mexico's ABQ Studios and pledges to spend an additional $1B on production there — Netflix is expanding its footprint in New Mexico, announcing Monday that it is expanding ABQ Studios and pledging an additional $1 billion in production spending there.
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The Atlantic:
The Atlantic partners with WNYC to launch a longform podcast The Experiment in January about the myths and ideas underpinning the US as a nation — Launching in January, the weekly show will be hosted by Julia Longoria — As a polarized country faces a chaotic transition of presidential power …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Apple now allows up to 10 different active offers per in-app subscription, allowing publishers to offer targeted discounts through their iPhone and iPad apps — Want to offer a special introductory rate for students and educators? Superfans of your local football team?
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