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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
NYT Q3 : $65M operating profit, up 15% YoY, on revenue of $509M, up 19.3% YoY; 455K new digital subs for a total of 8.4M subs, of which 1M+ are outside the US — After moving behind a paywall, Wirecutter added to the company's revenue stream. — The New York Times Company said on Wednesday …
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Charlie Warzel on leaving Substack, where he had 16K subscribers and 1.4K paid subs: he wasn't niche enough, didn't do enough “grievance blogging”, and more — (Not going to the metaverse...yet) — Before I get extra self-indulgent, I'll lead with the news.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Atlantic rolls out its new newsletter program, which will be free until the end of November, with nine contracted writers including Charlie Warzel — The Atlantic on Tuesday will roll out its new newsletter program with nine contracted writers, including Charlie Warzel, Molly Jong-Fast and Nicole Chung.
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Amazon Music for Android and iOS is rolling out auto-generated, synchronized transcripts for select podcasts in the US — Starting today, Amazon Music is launching auto-generated, synchronized transcripts on select podcasts for users in the United States. Rolling out for the latest version …
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The Verge, RAIN News, @mathewi, @marceloplima, @amazonmusic, @kintan, Variety and Engadget
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: a company led by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs is nearing a deal to acquire Moonbug Entertainment, in a deal that could value the CoComelon-owner at $3B+ — A Blackstone-backed company led by former Disney executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs is nearing a deal to acquire Moonbug Entertainment …
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@sizpatel, Wall Street Journal, @benaxelrod and @andrewmarchand
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
How China is reshaping international media coverage with deals and investments in Italy, the Philippines, Kenya, the Czech Republic, and more — Beijing is reshaping international coverage with deals and investments in countries so diverse as Italy, Czech Republic and the Philippines
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@arzugeybulla and @rasmus_kleis
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Report: 10 publishers including Breitbart, RT, and Federalist Papers are responsible for 69% of interactions with climate change denial posts on Facebook — A new report suggests 10 publishers, including Russia Today and the Federalist Papers, are responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions …
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Christian Davies / Financial Times:
A look at South Korea as a cultural exporter, from K-pop to TV shows and video games, and its desire for homegrown global platforms to distribute its content — Having given the world K-pop, Parasite and Squid Game, it now wants to create global platforms to distribute its content
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Netflix rolls out its exclusive mobile games globally to the Play Store and plans to feature them in its Android app starting this week — After early tests in select markets, Netflix announced today its debut lineup of exclusive mobile games will begin rolling out to all members globally on Android devices, starting this week.
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Paroma Soni / Columbia Journalism Review:
How strategic PR, the public, and the priorities of US politicians influenced the reception of two Facebook whistleblowers, and what that means for the press — In April, several months before a Facebook employee named Frances Haugen became the most famous whistleblower in the company's history …
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@cjr, @kaifalkenberg, @cjr, @jon_allsop, @cjr, @mathewi and Terms of Service w …
James Vincent / The Verge:
Google News will return to Spain “early next year” following a change to Spain's copyright laws that will let Google negotiate fees with individual publishers — Spain has changed its copyright law in accordance with EU legislation — Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories?
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Bloomberg, The Keyword, CNET, Engadget and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Channel 4 News names BBC Newsnight editor Esme Wren as editor, replacing Ben de Pear who announced in August he would be stepping down after almost 10 years — Newsnight editor Esme Wren is leaving the BBC after three years to lead Channel 4 News. — Wren will succeed Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear …
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