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4:30 AM ET, September 15, 2022

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount considers shutting down its Showtime streaming service in the US and moving its content to Paramount+, matching some international markets  —  Move would bring together two of entertainment company's offerings in a crowded sector  —  Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak, Here's How It Plans to Keep Growing
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:
[Thread] Most links have broken for AllThingsD, started by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who unsuccessfully tried to buy its archives from the WSJ in 2013  —  This is a thread on the ephemeral nature of content, who owns your work & why creators need to own their IP, which just hit home when I was doing research for my memoir on covering the rise of Silicon Valley. Why? Because most the work we did at All Things Digital has gone poof. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Netflix told ad buyers the company expects its ad-supported tier to reach 4.4M unique viewers globally in 2022, and ~40M by Q3 2023, with 13.3M in the US  —  Streaming giant shared projections for ‘unique viewers’ across a dozen launch markets with ad buyers
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In a memo, Semafor announces 19 founding editorial members and new hires  —  Thrilled about the team we're building @semafor, and just sent this out. Sign up https://www.semafor.com/ to be part of the launch. https://twitter.com/...
Axios:
An analysis of 82 major US publishers: their largest collective following is on Twitter, followed by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok  —  Twitter is still the place where media publishers collectively have the largest audiences, followed by Facebook and Instagram …
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT Cooking plans to sell $95 at-home cooking kits curated by guest chefs on The New York Times store, to grow revenue and boost readership for the recipe site  —  The kits offer a new avenue to increase revenue and readership for the paper's subscription cooking site.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Bergen on his book “Like, Comment, Subscribe”, chronicling YouTube's evolution from a scrappy startup to a pivotal part of Google and social media  —  Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box … YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it's such a black box …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment  —  California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at making web platforms monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, and other objectionable behaviors.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu, if Disney would sell; Disney's CEO has said he wants Comcast's third  —  Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called Hulu a “phenomenal business” — and said that if Disney were willing to sell it …
Sarah John / Teen Vogue:
Q&A with Jack Corbett, who produces TikToks for NPR's Planet Money, on explaining complex and weird economics topics via a platform first known for dance videos  —  Corbett, 25, is a producer on NPR's Planet Money and a TikTok wunderkind.  —  Jack Corbett has been a producer …
 
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BBC:
A Belfast judge jails a man for seven years after he admitted to possessing the gun that police believe was used to kill journalist Lyra McKee in April 2019
Financial Times:
How Wall Street spent billions buying music rights, turning songs into a new asset class; Midia: music catalog deals hit $5.3B in 2021, up from $1.9B in 2020
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
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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
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
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission plans to introduce the Media Freedom Act, starting a lengthy process to tighten rules on media groups seeking to acquire smaller rivals
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
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