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8:05 PM ET, September 28, 2021

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Ozy brands itself as identifying people who will be famous and influential ahead of other outlets, but a close examination shows the claim is untrue  —  Does the site's “signature ahead-of-the-curve coverage” really uncover “the new, the next, rising stars, new trends, that kind of stuff”?
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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
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Former press secretary Stephanie Grisham says Trump asked her to research ways to permanently evict the press from the Brady Briefing Room  —  The former press secretary is reflective in her tell-all: “I should have spoken up more.”  —  WASHINGTON — Stephanie Grisham …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree  —  A new GamesBeat event is around the corner!  Learn more about what comes next.  —  Netflix has acquired its first game studio …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Report: NBCUniversal asked YouTube TV to bundle Peacock as a condition for access to NBC channels, and Google objected; the current contract expires on Thursday  —  YouTube TV could lose NBC channels when contract expires Thursday.  —  NBCUniversal recently asked YouTube TV to bundle Peacock …
Catie Keck / The Verge:
At Code Conference, Ted Sarandos shares viewership data for Netflix's 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 …
Alec Karakatsanis / @equalityalec:
[Thread] NYT's recent reporting on crime engages in the common media practice of relying on police and police consultants as the only experts on policing  —  Last week, NYT published a major story that suggested falsely that police prevent murder and that one reason for increased murders during a global pandemic was civil rights criticism of police! The NYT did not disclose that the reporter was former CIA/Palantir/police/DA paid.
Capital Gazette:
Judge sentences Capital Gazette gunman to five life terms without parole for killing five people in newsroom shooting  —  An Anne Arundel County judge on Tuesday sentenced the man who blasted his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom and killed five people to six life sentences …
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  —  Dozens of Clubhouse creators had been anticipating their first sponsorship meeting for months.  As the inaugural class of Clubhouse's “Creator First” …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump loses arbitration case in which he alleged Omarosa Maginault Newman violated an NDA by publishing a book about her time working for his administration  —  Donald Trump had filed the case against Ms. Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and “Apprentice” star …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: in town hall meeting, Group Nine Media says it expects to be profitable this year for the first time, reach $200M+ in revenue, and add 100+ jobs  —  Group Nine Media told staff in a company-wide meeting last week that the company expects to be profitable this year …
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A deal between IAC and Meredith, merging IAC's Dotdash and Meredith's magazines, could create one of the largest food, home, and lifestyle media companies
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Cherie Hu / Water & Music:
Study: in 2020, 0.4% of UK artists earned enough from streams to make a living, up 4x since 2015; 65%-75% of those streams came from back catalogs
Catie Keck / The Verge:
Amazon says Sling TV will come to all existing Echo Show devices in the US soon
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Korea Telecom plans to invest $150M in its media unit Genie, which runs streaming service Seezn and web novel site Storywiz, to compete with Netflix and others
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok says it now has 1B MAUs