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11:40 AM ET, November 11, 2021

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CNBC:
Disney misses Q4 estimates, reporting net income of $160M and revenue of $18.53B, up 26% YoY, and 2.1M new Disney+ subscribers for a total of 118.1M  —  - Disney reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday after-the-bell.  — The company missed Wall Street estimates across the board …
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New York Times:
Sources: the US DOJ and SEC have opened investigations into Ozy Media, and federal prosecutors have been contacting companies that have had dealings with Ozy  —  The Justice Department and the S.E.C. have contacted companies that discussed investing in the Silicon Valley media business.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Earth Journalism Network, which supports environmental journalism in developing countries, at COP26, to which it brought reporters from 15 countries  —  GLASGOW — At 2pm UK time on Monday, shortly before Barack Obama took the stage at the COP26 climate summit for a speech …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge updates its “on background” policy, making “on the record” the default when its reporters speak to PR professionals, particularly at tech companies  —  On ‘on background’  —  The main way this happens is that big companies take advantage of a particular agreement in the media called “background.”
Jason Guerrasio / Insider:
MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes is “exploring the possibility of relaunching soon” after a bankruptcy judge grants him ownership of the company  —  - MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought back the company.  — His bid was approved by a Southern District of New York bankruptcy court judge on Monday.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Workweek, a platform aiming to let business journalists work independently by giving them a salary and full-time benefits, launches with $1.5M in funding  —  A new company called Workweek launched Wednesday to give creators of business-to-business content — traditionally content that lived …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Minute Media, owner of Players' Tribune, acquires Israeli publishing tech company Wazimo, which helps media companies obtain and monetize first-party data  —  Minute Media, a holding group that owns digital sports and entertainment websites like Players' Tribune and The Big Lead …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
The history of torrent site The Pirate Bay will be made into a six-part TV drama for Swedish public broadcaster SVT, with production starting in fall 2022  —  The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama.  The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year …
Ben Bold / CampaignUK:
UK's Channel 4 and Instagram launch You Do You, the “first real-time social reality series”, broadcast on Instagram via Channel 4's Reels, Stories, and videos  —  Produced by broadcaster's branded entertainment team at 4Studio.  —  Channel 4 and Instagram have teamed up to produce …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Kids' media startup Pocketwatch, which has deals with makers of YouTube hits Ryan's World and Kids Diana Show, hires an adviser to explore investments or a sale
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The Guardian:
Myanmar charges US journalist Danny Fenster, who worked for Frontier Myanmar, with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March
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Wall Street Journal:
Internal docs: Facebook researchers found that about 40% of traffic to Pages in 2018 went to those with content that was plagiarized or recycled
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vimeo acquires Wibbitz, a short-form video creation service, and Wirewax, which builds tech to make objects in videos “shoppable”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Brian Williams, the former NBC Nightly News anchor who faced a six-month suspension in 2015, will leave NBC when his contract ends in December
New York Times:
By January 19, Meta aims to remove ad targeting options based on user interactions with content about health, race, political affiliation, religion, and more