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5:15 PM ET, November 17, 2021

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Disney held talks with betting operators about a partnership with ESPN, with BetMGM, Caesars, and DraftKings seen as frontrunners  —  Now that major leagues are getting on board with gambling, the family-friendly Hollywood giant is eyeing that revenue and may start with a splashy ESPN licensing deal.
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap:
Substack expands its health insurance program to all writers in the US making more than $5,000 in gross annualized revenue on the service  —  Substack on Tuesday expanded its health insurance program to all writers making $5,000 a year on its newsletter platform.
Discussion: Substack and @caseymlewis
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig steps down; Ted Verity will become Mail Newspapers editor with responsibility for Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and You magazine  —  Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig is leaving his role this week, with the Mail on Sunday's Ted Verity stepping up to take charge of a new seven-day operation.
Chrissy Towle / The Keyword:
Google selects 25 projects from local news outlets to receive a share of $3.2M+ in the North America Innovation Challenge to build ties to their communities  —  We can't write about our communities without understanding them and being part of them.  We don't want to just parachute ourselves …
Giving Compass:
Institute for Nonprofit News Index finds 90%+ of ~400 nonprofit newsrooms tracked over the last 12 years are alive; ~70% have four or more sources of revenue  —  Earlier this year, residents in Southwest Memphis received some good news.  An oil pipeline project they were fighting against was called off.
Discussion: @michellemanafy
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
US agrees to provide renewable yearlong visas to Chinese journalists, while China lets WSJ, WaPo, and NYT reporters return  —  The deal tones down a diplomatic confrontation that led Beijing to expel some American reporters during the last year of the Trump administration.
Steve Inskeep / @nprinskeep:
[Thread] Complaints that journalists should have published Trump info sooner rather than holding it for books is mistaken, as reporting with context takes time  —  A complaint about the Trump books—that writers held back information they could have reported sooner—is understandable but mistaken, I think. Our most pressing need is for context, careful reporting, understanding. It's not to file stories instantly on every incremental tidbit.
Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences says the Children's & Family Emmy Awards will be a standalone show starting 2022  —  After a couple of years of tweaks to how the children's Emmy categories were presented, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said Wednesday …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands Podcast Subscriptions from the US to 33 new markets globally and now includes 20 price points for creators, from $0.50 to $150  —  Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets.
 
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Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Tidal launches a free tier in the US and direct-to-artist payments with fan-centered royalties based on streaming activity of individual HiFi Plus subscribers
USAGM:
USAGM reports that it reached 394M people in 62 languages each week in 2021, up 42% since 2017, with top audiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights
Diane Haithman / The Wrap:
The California Film Commission says the state's Film & TV Tax Credit Program is expected to generate $2.6B in in-state spending in its first fiscal year
Discussion: Variety
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
More than 100 NYT workers and their supporters protest outside the outlet's Manhattan headquarters, accusing the company of delaying union contract talks
Axios:
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The FTC recently announced plans to crack down on companies, including news publishers, using “dark patterns that trick or trap consumers into subscriptions”