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Wall Street Journal:
WSJ's editorial board defends publishing a letter from Trump, saying Trump is making election rigging claims elsewhere, so “we hardly did him a special favor” — His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024. — By The Editorial Board
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Critics accuse WSJ of amplifying misinformation after it publishes a 600-word letter to the editor from Trump, filled with debunked claims of election fraud — The publication of the letter, citing baseless and debunked claims, was criticized for pushing the traditional boundaries of a letters-to-the-editor page
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast signs deal with Apple to carry the Apple TV app on Xfinity X1, UK's Sky Glass, and XClass TVs; Apple TV set-top boxes will have Comcast's Stream app — Comcast struck a deal with Apple that will bring the Apple TV app, which includes access to the Apple TV Plus subscription service …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Comcast reports Q3 revenue rose to $30.2B with $4.04B net income; NBCU earnings were $1.3B, up 48.2% YoY, on $10B revenue, up 57.9% YoY, due to the Olympics — Comcast saw its third-quarter profit soar due to its massive broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics across NBCUniversal as well as an uptick …
Mark Zuckerberg / Meta:
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products — We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too. — In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally.
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Jennifer Dunham / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ's Global Impunity Index finds that since 2011, 278 journalists have been murdered worldwide and no one has been convicted in 226 of these cases — No one has been held to account in 81% of journalist murders during the last 10 years, CPJ's 2021 Global Impunity Index has found.
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Plug, a news outlet founded by data journalist Sherrell Dorsey, which reports on Black and brown tech founders, startups, and tech's impact — In 2019, data journalist Sherrell Dorsey wrote a story for the Columbia Journalism Review about how Black and brown tech entrepreneurs …
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
YouTube's mistaken deletion of UK news outlet Novara Media's channel draws criticism as an example of the company's power as a content regulator — Novara, a London news group, fell victim to YouTube's opaque and sometimes arbitrary enforcement of its rules.
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@satariano and @ayocaesar
Terry Lefton / Sports Business Journal:
As advertising for crypto grows, Disney's ESPN has declined crypto ads so far; one ad buyer noted Disney has other longtime financial services sponsors — Some of the biggest sports properties have cashed in on the cryptocurrency marketing trend this year, with huge sponsorship deals in F1, UFC, the NBA and MLB.
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple Q4 services revenue, which includes Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Music, and more, hit $18.27B, up ~25% YoY; paid subscriptions reached 745M, up 160M YoY — Apple today reported services revenue of $18.27 billion in the fourth quarter of its 2021 fiscal year, which is an all-time quarterly revenue record.
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Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
Sources: G/O Media has removed images from articles published before 2019 across its properties, but employees do not know the rationale for the removal — G/O Media — the parent company that runs 11 websites, including the former Gawker Media properties Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Deadspin …
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Berber Jin / The Information:
UnitedMasters, a music distribution app for independent musicians, raises a $50M Series C led by a16z at a $550M valuation — UnitedMasters, a music distribution app for independent musicians, has raised $50 million in a round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz at a $550 million valuation, including the new investment.
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