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10:30 AM ET, September 28, 2021

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources: Ozy Media co-founder Samir Rao impersonated a YouTube exec on a Goldman Sachs call ahead of a $40M deal; Rao is back at Ozy after time off  —  The digital media company has raised eyebrows for its claims about its audience size for years.  Then came the strange voice on the phone.
The New York Times Company:
NYT launches The New York Times Corps, a talent pipeline program where journalists give early college students career guidance over a multi-year period  —  The New York Times is launching a first-of-its-kind talent pipeline program for early-college students to receive career guidance from Times journalists over a multiyear period.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok says it now has 1B MAUs  —  TikTok says it has crossed a key milestone: The social video app claims it now counts more than 1 billion monthly active users.  —  TikTok is the successor to Musical.ly, the short-form video app that was acquired by Chinese internet giant ByteDance in 2017 …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Axios Local plans to expand into 11 new markets by Q3 2022, for a total of 23, and says its 14 newsletters have about 400K subscribers  —  Axios is popping up local news-focused newsletters across the country, with ambitious plans to be in 23 markets in 2022.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it will cut YouTube TV's fee by $10/month and drop NBCUniversal channels if it can't reach a deal with NBCU by September 30  —  Another carriage fight has burst into public view: NBCUniversal on Sunday said it was notifying customers with YouTube TV that more than 14 of its networks …
Catie Keck / The Verge:
At Code Conference, Netflix's Ted Sarandos shares viewership data for its top 10 series and movies; 82M accounts watched Bridgerton and 99M watched Extraction  —  A rare look at Netflix's viewing data  —  During this year's Code conference, Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos shared …
Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:
NMPA drops its $200M copyright lawsuit against Roblox and strikes a partnership with the company to let NMPA members reach individual music licensing deals  —  A week after signing a long-awaited agreement with Twitch, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) has struck a deal with Roblox …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ViacomCBS partners with data company VideoAmp to develop means of tracking ad reach among linear and digital viewers, a potential alternative to Nielsen  —  The TV industry, long measured by Nielsen, continues to offer up new yardsticks to Madison Avenue.  —  ViacomCBS said it would take …
James Hercher / AdExchanger:
Google says it will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Google Ads, and will default to “data-driven attribution” instead  —  “Because of how we've been improving and training our data-driven attribution models, we've eliminated [that] previously existing requirement,” she said.
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: MSNBC staff are worried over its direction under Rashida Jones, fearing that she's gearing up for a costly and potentially disastrous battle with CNN  —  MSNBC staffers are panicking over the direction of the left-leaning news network under newly minted President Rashida Jones …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A look at episodic story services like Amazon's Kindle Vella; Apptopia says combined IAP revenue of top 7 services grew 50% YoY to $12M/month in May and July  —  - Amazon's Kindle Vella spotlights the growing market for episodic stories, designed for mobile devices, unfolding as larger narratives over time.
 
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Six creators from Clubhouse's 25-person creator program say it did not deliver sponsorships for their shows, leading them to look elsewhere
Patrick Frater / Variety:
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
US GAO: ~11% of workers in the media industry and ~8% of workers in newspapers and publishing were Hispanic from 2014-2019, vs. 18% of the total US workforce
Ruth Reader / Fast Company:
GoodRx debuts GoodRx Health, a site with a 50-person editorial team aiming to give better answers to the most googled health questions than sites like WebMD
Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
UK's Channel 4 and its sister channels were down for more than an hour during prime time on Saturday evening because of a technical problem
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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