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8:50 AM ET, September 13, 2022

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Liz Schwartz / Shorenstein Center:
Brian Stelter joins the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow  —  The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that Brian Stelter will join …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
HBO and HBO Max won 37 awards at the 74th Emmy Awards, while Netflix won 26, Hulu eight, Apple TV+ seven, NBC seven, Disney+ six, and Amazon Prime Video six  —  The combined HBO and HBO Max surged past rival Netflix in this year's overall Emmys tally, winning a dozen prizes tonight for a total …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Q&A with Disney CEO Bob Chapek on Hulu's and ESPN's future, buying out Comcast's 33% stake in Hulu before 2024, a seamless bundle, activist investors, and more  —  “You should see the backstage,” actor Diego Luna told the D23 Expo crowd Saturday morning as he talked up his new “Star Wars” …
Wall Street Journal:
Internal Meta research: Instagram users spend 17.6M hours/day on Reels vs. TikTok's 197.8M hours/day; only 20% of Instagram's ~11M US creators post on Reels  —  Reels faces formidable competition from the leading short-video platform; creators follow the views
Bloomberg:
The New York Times offered branded lunchboxes to welcome workers back to the office, as 1,200+ employees work from home to protest stalled contract negotiations  —  Hundreds of New York Times Co. employees are working from home this week in defiance of the company's renewed return-to-office push.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku updates its OS, adding a short-form content hub, refreshes its $30 Roku Express streaming player, and launches a $130 Roku Wireless Bass subwoofer  —  Roku unveiled a software update to its streaming operating system — OS 11.5 — that among other features will introduce a new section …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend $15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix's $13.6B, Disney+'s $9.5B, WBD's $6.5B, and Apple's $6B  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles.  I am headed to Singapore and Seoul at the end of the month.  If there is anyone I should meet …
Discussion: @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw and TechCrunch
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge launches a redesign with a “modern newsfeed experience”, including links to other sites, alongside a new logo, typefaces, comment system, and more  —  Revolutionizing the media with blog posts … We've got a whole new Verge for you today.  Radically new.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
The Athletic rolls out its first on-site ads after six months of planning, a key development in The New York Times' strategy to expand its global ad footprint  —  Beginning Monday, The Athletic will feature ads for the first time in its six-year history  —  After six months of planning …
 
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Washington Post:
Shira Ovide, who wrote The New York Times' On Tech newsletter, joins The Washington Post as Help Desk strategy editor, a new role to expand its tech advice work
Drew Taylor / The Wrap:
A+E Networks appoints programming and development executive Teri Kennedy to the newly created role of Head of Lifestyle Programming and Daytime Originals
Discussion: Deadline
Harry Taylor / The Guardian:
The UK's Sky News apologizes after incorrectly telling viewers that a protest march for Chris Kaba, who was shot dead by police, was a group mourning the Queen
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A look at Google News Initiative's Innovation Challenge, which has funded $33M across 260 projects in eight years, preferring small grants and replicable ideas
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
JustWatch research: Netflix has a 27.3% share of global streaming, Amazon Prime Video has 24.3%, Disney+ has 18.2%, HBO Max has 7%, and Apple TV+ has 6.2%
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp. pay package was $18.4M in fiscal year 2022, down from $31.1M YoY, while Lachlan Murdoch's fell to $21.7M from $27.7M YoY
Hirun Cryer / GamesRadar:
Ubisoft says it is developing three mobile games exclusively for Netflix: Mighty Quest 2, Valiant Hearts 2, and a new Assassin's Creed title
 

 
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o

 
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