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7:00 PM ET, November 22, 2021

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Alden Global Capital offers to acquire Lee Enterprises for about $140M or $24/share, a ~30% premium on its stock's November 19 closing price  —  The hedge fund has developed a reputation for slashing staff in newsrooms and other departments and selling off real estate at outlets it owns.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from the network in protest of Tucker Carlson's streaming special on the January 6 Capitol mob  —  Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, stars of a brand of conservatism that has fallen out of fashion, decide they've had enough.
Gizmodo:
Gizmodo plans to publish the Facebook Papers in batches, redacting sensitive information with help from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU  —  Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal, which owns one-third of Hulu, is considering removing most of its content from Hulu early next year and making it exclusive to Peacock  —  NBCUniversal unit has a window allowing it to remove shows that appear on the Disney-controlled streaming service
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Jessica Lessin says The Information has 225,000 “active users”, including paid subscribers and newsletter readers, as it launches a weekend lifestyle edition  —  Website aimed at Silicon Valley proves value of subscription model for journalism  —  The Information …
Jennifer Meierhans / BBC:
Spotify removes shuffle play as the default option on albums for premium users, so tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change  —  Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen says it will overhaul its commercial ratings in 2022, with plans to measure the audiences for individual ads  —  Nielsen has a new proposal for TV networks that have been threatening for months to find other means of measuring their audiences: Stick with the yardstick you already use.
Bloomberg:
Interview with The Athletic co-founder Alex Mather as sources say the NYT did not reach a deal to buy the outlet after assessing its value at under $500M  —  The sports-media startup has laid off staff, scrapped a documentary unit and canceled some podcasts while seeking new avenues of growth.
Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
A look at Spotify's podcast investments, including its push into advertising and video, as it appears poised to dominate the industry  —  With 3.2 million podcasts on its platform and more monthly active users than Apple, Spotify is the new heavy in podcasting.  It's just getting started.
 
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Eoin Higgins / The Flashpoint:
Since becoming a Fox News regular in 2020, Glenn Greenwald's attitude changed in his tweets about the network, which are almost entirely positive
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: arbitrator rules Kevin Spacey must pay House of Cards producer MRC nearly $31M for breaching contractual obligations amid sexual harassment allegations
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Jim Morrill / The Assembly:
Profile of Asheville Watchdog, which produces investigative reporting in North Carolina with accomplished, volunteer journalists who “retired” to the mountains
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation will help 18 Australian small news publishers negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages