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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.”
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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 — The former anchor of “NBC Nightly News” rehabilitated his tarnished image as the host of a popular 11 p.m. show on MSNBC.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter and ViacomCBS announce a multi-year global deal that includes three Twitter watch parties for original Paramount+ shows — Twitter and ViacomCBS today announced a sizable global deal that will see the social media platform streaming digital content from across the ViacomCBS portfolio of news …
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Variety, MediaPost, Billboard, TV Technology, WORLD SCREEN and Media Play News
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 …
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Talking Biz News, @nicolecasperson, @packym, @jordihays and @joeysweeny
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Digital Entertainment Group: US streaming consumer subscription revenue was up 19% YoY for the first nine months of 2021, to $18.5B — Soaring U.S. streaming consumer subscription revenue is up 19% to $18.5 billion through the first nine months of 2021 versus a year ago …
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The Streamable
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Politico says it has reached an agreement with NewsGuild to voluntarily recognize its PEN Guild union — Politico reached an agreement to voluntarily recognize a union of its employees, extending a wave of successful organizing efforts in the media industry.
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@rmc031, @taragolshan, @niemanlab, @josheidelson and The NewsGuild - CWA
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 — About 40% of traffic to pages in 2018 went to those with content that was plagiarized or recycled, and Facebook has been slow to crack down on copyright infringement
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@ericgarland, @wsj, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @dnvolz and @jeffhorwitz
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
Tencent Music announces a deal with Apple Music, allowing Chinese musicians part of its Music Cloud program to distribute their works through Apple Music — Apple Music users around the world will soon have access to more Chinese musicians. Tencent Music Entertainment …
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PR Newswire, ScreenRant, 9to5Mac and Music Ally
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Twitter Blue rolls out to the US for $2.99/month and NZ for $4.49/month with Scroll's ad-free articles across 300+ publishers and Nuzzel-like “top articles” — Twitter is expanding its premium subscription service to more users. Twitter Blue, which unlocks additional features …
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Rest of World:
Journalists and analysts talk of muted reactions to the Facebook Papers over Meta's failure to stop hate speech and misinformation in the Global South — “Very little of what I have read about the papers comes as a surprise.” — When news emerged about a leaked trove of documents …
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@kantrowitz, @dseetharaman, @restofworld, @mvzelenks and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vimeo acquires Wibbitz, a short-form video creation service, and Wirewax, which builds tech to make objects in videos “shoppable” — Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sky News anchor Adam Boulton announces he will leave at the end of the year, after more than 30 years at the channel — Journalist, 62, says direction news channel wants to go in is not ‘a particularly good fit for me’ — Adam Boulton has announced he will leave Sky News at the end of the year …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
fuboTV to acquire French multiplatform streaming company Molotov for $190M; Molotov co-founder and CEO Jean-David Blanc will become chief strategy officer — fuboTV is making a significant move in Europe with plans to acquire Molotov, a French startup with a leading television streaming service. fuboTV …
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Advanced Television, Broadband TV News, Digital TV Europe, WORLD SCREEN, The Streamable and Business Wire
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