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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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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen ratings for the Emmys fell to a record low, with 5.92M viewers in 2022 compared to 7.83M in 2021; Monday Night Football's debut drew 19.84M, up 17% YoY — The awards dip below 6 million viewers for the first time ever. — The Emmy Awards fell to an all-time low in viewers for the third time in the past four years.
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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.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
About 215 members of NBC News' digital newsroom union, part of the NewsGuild of New York, vowed to work from home this week rather than return to the office
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge launches a redesign with a “modern newsfeed experience” that includes 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.
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Patreon lays off 80 employees, or about 17% of its staff, closes its Dublin and Berlin offices, and plans to consolidate its engineering teams in the US — The creator subscription company Patreon is the latest company to be affected by a long line of tech layoffs.
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter rolls out its redesigned Spaces tab to Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS, which includes live and recorded Spaces, podcasts, and themed audio stations — Twitter has begun rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab. Starting today, Twitter Blue members on iOS can check …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Meta plans to merge its business integrity unit, which moderates ads, and its central integrity team, which moderates posts, into a group of ~3,000 people — Meta is merging its business integrity unit, the team that moderates ad content, with its central integrity team …
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@sarafischer and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Jem Aswad / Variety:
YouTube paid $6B+ to the music industry from July 2021 to June 2022, up $2B YoY, and says user generated content drove 30%+ of payouts for a second year running — YouTube, the world's largest streaming platform for music, announced that it has paid more than $6 billion to the music industry …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg ramps up its coverage plans ahead of the US midterms with a new podcast, annual summit, ticketed policy debate series, weekly politics show, and more — Bloomberg Media is ramping up its D.C. coverage plans ahead of the midterms with a slew of new products, hires and events.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
TCG invests $100M in Night Capital, co-founded by Mr. Beast's manager Reed Duchscher, which plans to buy DTC businesses and pair them with influential creators — Reed Duchscher, the manager of the YouTube megastar “Mr. Beast,” is teaming up with the investment firm TCG to bankroll businesses led by online creators.
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
An interview with CEO Efe Çakarel on plans to make Mubi a studio with production and distribution arms, as it builds its first physical cinema in Mexico City — MUBI founder Efe Çakarel has detailed the indie streamer and distributor's plans to grow into a studio player …
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Isabel Debre / Associated Press:
Sources detail how publisher IMI closed Dubai's Al Roeya newspaper after it covered high UAE gas prices; IMI says Al Roeya is just changing into a business site — The story about high fuel prices was safe, editors agreed, even under the strict press laws of the United Arab Emirates.
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