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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Sources: The New Yorker's letter firing Erin Overbey notes “previous incidents” of “baseless accusations against colleagues”; she calls the accusations “absurd” — This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider …
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Erin Overbey / @erinoverbey:
[Thread] Erin Overbey, who last week tweeted that The New Yorker punished her after she spoke up about gender inequality at the outlet, says she has been fired — So the @New Yorker has fired me, effective immediately. I'm speaking with the union about potentially filing a grievance on the termination. But here are some things that I will say....
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NFL launches its NFL+ streaming service, offering a $4.99/month tier and $9.99/month Premium tier with full game replays; NFL+ replaces Game Pass in the US — It will cost $4.99 per month at launch Monday, and include live local games on mobile devices, as well as live audio of every game.
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New York Times:
How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to win live sports streaming rights by persuading skeptical leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks — Competing for rights to broadcast games from the N.F.L. and other leagues could be hard for broadcast and cable companies that “aren't playing by the same financial rules.”
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Cuadrilla Capital acquires Chartbeat, a content insights service used by web publishers to measure and analyze traffic; Chartbeat has raised $31M over 12 years — Chartbeat, a content insights platform that's used by web publishers to measure and analyze traffic, was purchased by Cuadrilla Capital …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery cancels the TBS late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, as it cuts its content spend for big cable networks like TBS and TNT — “As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we've made some difficult, business-based decisions,” TBS said in a statement.
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
How the Genesis Communications, a talk radio network that has syndicated Alex Jones' show since 1999, built a lucrative business through misinformation — The Genesis Communications Network built a lucrative business alongside the radio host, whose show the company has syndicated for more than two decades.
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta launches Music Revenue Sharing to let US creators include licensed music in their 60+ second Facebook videos and earn a 20% share of in-stream ad revenue — Meta announced today that creators on Facebook can now earn money through their Facebook videos that use licensed music.
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Netflix rolls out a button for iOS and iPadOS that takes users directly to its website to sign up, avoiding Apple's App Store cut via the API for “reader apps” — Earlier this year, Apple began allowing “reader” apps to provide external links for customers so they can log …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Movies are grossing more in 2022 than 2021, but ticket sales are down almost 40% from 2019 as the share of movies released on 2K+ screens is down 30%+ from 2019 — Movie studios are the most optimistic they've been in years. The business has bounced back from the depths of the pandemic …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and Wall Street Journal link Trump's January 6 inaction to a character failure; the Post calls him unworthy to be president again — New York CNN — — One of Donald Trump's favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is …
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Kathleen Kingsbury / New York Times:
The New York Times renames Sunday Review as Sunday Opinion, with the back page of the section devoted once a month to a longer piece of first-person writing — - Give this article- - - Read in app … Starting tomorrow, there will be a brand-new section in the paper: Sunday Opinion.
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