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12:45 PM ET, September 7, 2022

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Miami-based Muck Rack, a database of journalists, raised a $180M Series A from Susquehanna Growth Equity, after being bootstrapped since being founded in 2009  —  For any journalist who has ever googled their name, there is a good chance that one of the hits will be for Muck Rack …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ahead of the US midterms, Twitter expands its Birdwatch fact-checking tool, adding 1,000 contributors weekly, each assigned a “rating impact” score out of five  —  On the heels of a report detailing how Twitter had once accidentally allowed a conspiracy theorist into its invite …
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili settles a defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line in The Queen's Gambit final episode saying she had “never faced men”  —  The fictional series had named Nona Gaprindashvili, a pioneering real-life chess champion, and falsely claimed she had “never faced men.”
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Memo: Disney-owned National Geographic magazine, which has ~125 editorial staff, laid off six of its top editors last week, three months after naming a new EIC  —  National Geographic magazine, the venerable journal of science, history and the natural world, laid off six of its top editors …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries resigns after a tenure of less than a year in which she made several inflammatory remarks about Channel 4 and the BBC
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: as subscriber growth slows, Netflix scours its business to cut costs, including managing cloud spend, limiting corporate swag, and hiring junior staff  —  The streaming giant seeks to impose more financial discipline as growth stagnates  —  As Netflix Inc. NFLX 1.50%▲ …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Cumulus Media says it is “disassociating” from the annual Podcast Movement industry conference, after a Twitter spat between the conference and The Daily Wire  —  Cumulus, one of the largest radio companies in the country, says it's “disassociating” from Podcast Movement …
David Pierce / The Verge:
Ad targeting and big TV ad budgets are to blame for repetitive advertising on streaming services, despite evidence repeated ads make people less likely to buy  —  Ads are fine, but can I get more than one?  —  For the last few months, Parks & Recreation has been my go-to background show.
Masha Borak / Rest of World:
Some Wikipedia editors in Russia have been doxxed, threatened, and arrested for not supporting Russia's war in Ukraine; some now edit less and others have quit  —  One Friday in March, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail, a Russia-based Wikipedia editor, opened the Telegram app to discover that he had been doxxed.
 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon's Prime Video Channels head Soumya Sriraman leaves to join Qurate Retail Group, which owns the QVC and HSN shopping channels, as president of streaming
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Mark Bergen / The Verge:
A book excerpt details how YouTube's love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020
Ian Ward / Politico:
A look at Capitol Hill Citizen, a print newspaper launched by Ralph Nader in April 2022 to cover big-picture stories overlooked by DC's scoop-obsessed media
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Real Life, a magazine founded in June 2016 and funded by Snap, ceases publication immediately due to a lack of funding
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CNN hires John Miller, a former TV correspondent who also had two long stints with the NYPD, to serve as its chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo acquires The Factual and plans to integrate its AI system for rating the credibility of news sources into Yahoo News while licensing it to other companies
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A profile of Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on his career, decisions to buy Politico and Insider, the impossibility of claiming pure neutrality, and more
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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