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4:25 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 $750M+ valuation  —  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 …
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 Pinterest TV shoppable live series 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 compete 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 …
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
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.
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: The Rothermere family is close to taking Daily Mail-owner DMGT private via a deal that involves injecting £400M+ into DMGT's three pension schemes  —  An agreement that would involve more than £400m being injected into the company's three pension schemes …
Discussion: @markkleinmansky
bbc.co.uk:
BBC rejects complaints that its article “We're being pressured into sex by some trans women” is transphobic and poorly evidenced  —  Summary of complaint  —  We received complaints that the article 'We're being pressured into sex by some trans women' is transphobic and poorly evidenced.
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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
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 launches Gross Ratings Points metrics of creators with 1M+ views/month on YouTube and Facebook, in the US, UK, Brazil, France, Mexico, and Germany  —  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
 
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Information expands creator economy coverage amid high demand for its newsletter on the topic, says coverage generated multiple “six-figure” revenue lines
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”