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1:55 PM ET, November 1, 2021

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Sources: FanDuel and DraftKings are among the companies that submitted bids to buy The Athletic, which is seeking a valuation of more than $750M  —  Fantasy and sports betting providers, FanDuel and DraftKings, are among a number of companies that have submitted bids to buy sports news site The Athletic …
Discussion: @sizpatel and @markdistef
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Information's Jessica Lessin analyzes tensions between tech execs including Zuckerberg and legacy media outlets, which execs associate with staff activism  —  Journalists and tech executives seem to be fighting each other to a draw in a battle that has no end in sight.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Pinterest to launch a shoppable live series called Pinterest TV on November 8, with weekday episodes airing in its app, featuring some of its top creators  —  The series will feature creators and celebrities, like Olympic athlete Tom Daley and popular makeup artist Manny MUA
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Established news outlets wrestle with competition for talent from Substack, Facebook Bulletin, and more as they build out newsletters, digital audio, and video  —  Substack, Facebook Bulletin pursue high-profile reporters and commentators, creating tension within news organizations
Brodie Fenlon / CBC News:
CBC says it will keep Facebook comments closed on news posts, after turning them off in June and finding it improved the well-being of staff  —  We hope to make online spaces safer by minimizing harassment and abuse of our story subjects, commenters  —  Earlier this week …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Amazon says TikTok's app is now available on Fire TV in the US and Canada and will come soon to Echo Show devices  —  Amazon announced today that a TikTok app is now available on its Amazon Fire TV for users in the U.S. and Canada.  The app is also coming soon to Echo Show devices.
Discussion: Variety, Amazon Fire TV and MediaPost
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
Profile of Matt Taibbi, the polarizing journalist that critics say turned into a “red-pilled culture warrior” on Substack, where he has 30K paying subs  —  Obviously, I'm anxious about why I'm being profiled," Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half.
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Estimate: Apple's iOS App Tracking Transparency policy has cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube almost $10B in combined ad revenue in H2 2021  —  Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for advertising purposes leads to big hit for social media platforms
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK relaunches the Ofcom chair recruitment process after tweaking the job description and interviewer lineup to favor a confrontational candidate like Paul Dacre  —  A lobbyist at a company with close connections to the Conservative party will help select the next chair of the media regulator …
Axios:
NewsWhip: interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers”  —  The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far …
David Bloom / Forbes:
Tubular Labs to start providing Gross Ratings Points metrics of creators with 1M+ views/month on YouTube and Facebook, in six countries including the US and UK  —  In a bid to impose to measurement order on the vast and somewhat chaotic world of video on YouTube and Facebook …
Discussion: MediaPost and nexttv.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube names veteran ad executive Tara Walpert Levy as VP of Americas, to oversee its content partnerships across the US, Canada, Latin America, and Brazil  —  Tara Walpert Levy, a 10-year Google and YouTube veteran ad exec, is moving over to YouTube full-time in a big new role.
Discussion: Adweek
 
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Karen Maniraho / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Mohammed El-Kurd, The Nation's first Palestine correspondent, on seeking a Palestinian viewpoint in news coverage, his new role, and his book of poems
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at CatchLight, a California nonprofit that offers financial support and training for photojournalists and newsroom partners to combat “image deserts”
Nieman Lab:
Survey of 500 Nieman Lab readers on why they canceled news subscriptions: 31% due to money, 30% due to ideology, 13% because content wasn't satisfactory
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC to appoint external investigators that will seek evidence from the public and lobby groups to assess the impartiality of contentious topic coverage
 

 
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Popular photo editing company Pixelmator says it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, pending regulatory approval

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
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