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3:30 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 its founding 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 plans to add 1,000 contributors weekly to its Birdwatch fact-checking tool, 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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix scours its business to cut costs, including by reducing real estate, curbing cloud spend, limiting corporate swag, and hiring more junior staff  —  The streaming giant seeks to impose more financial discipline as growth stagnates  —  As Netflix Inc. NFLX 1.50%▲ …
The Hollywood Reporter:
Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, saying existing lenders committed ~$1.94B to “help ensure” operations continue  —  The debt-laden exhibitor, led by CEO Moshe “Mooky” Greidinger, had said in mid-August that it was eyeing unspecified strategic options.
New York Times:
Sources: Vice is exploring a deal worth ~$50M with MBC, a media giant partially owned by the Saudi government, to launch a new content partnership in the region  —  The company is in talks to develop a content partnership with MBC, a Saudi Arabian media giant partially owned by the government.
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 …
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  —  Soumya Sriraman, who previously led BritBox, will become president of streaming for the company.
Discussion: Variety and Deadline
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.”
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
The BBC names Chinny Okolidoh, currently L'Oréal's director of DEI, as its director of diversity and inclusion, starting later in 2022  —  “I look forward to building on the great work that has been done so far and continuing to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything …
Discussion: @blackamazon, Variety and Deadline
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Memo: longtime Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory is leaving at the end of the year to chair the journalism department at Boston University  —  Brian McGrory, the accidental editor of The Boston Globe who ended up staying for nearly 20 years, has finally made official what half the city has known for months …
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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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
 
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