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4:45 PM ET, September 15, 2022

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Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times:
Sources: in early 2020, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner criticized Adidas in 20+ articles in Bild for freezing rents without disclosing being Adidas' landlord  —  Mathias Döpfner orchestrated stories against company for pausing rents without disclosing his interest
John Koblin / New York Times:
CNN plans to completely revamp its morning show in late October, adding hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins, in Chris Licht's biggest move yet  —  The morning slot will be hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.  The move leaves open Mr. Lemon's prime-time slot.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon and Apple passed on media rights to Saudi-backed LIV Golf, which also hasn't been able to strike a deal with ESPN, CBS, NBC, or Fox  —  Tech giants were approached by upstart golf league but didn't express interest, joining list of media platforms
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Tony Gallagher, deputy editor of Murdoch's The Times, is being lined up to be its new editor, with its current boss, John Witherow, expected to leave  —  Announcement expected of editor John Witherow's departure and his deputy's promotion  —  Tony Gallagher is being lined …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu if Disney would sell; Disney CEO Bob Chapek 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 …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Inside labor unrest at The New York Times, where both star reporters and new enlistees are frustrated with pay offers and union members are discussing a strike  —  As much of the media industry sank beneath the digital waves in the last decade, the New York Times became something like Noah's ark …
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Henry Fuhrmann, a former LA Times editor, has died; he also was an adjunct journalism professor and active member at AAJA and ACES: The Society for Editing  —  No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen.  In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or …
Inside Radio:
Sweden-based podcast network Acast plans to lay off 15% of its staff, or about 60 employees, this month as it seeks profitability by 2024  —  Acast is moving up the date by which the company aims to turn profitable, and to achieve that it has announced it will cut its current workforce by 15% or about 60 employees.
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Filipp Lebedev / Reuters:
Russia's Supreme Court strips Novaya Gazeta of its last media license; Editor in Chief Dmitry Muratov calls the move “informational genocide” and vows to appeal  —  Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent news outlets, was stripped of its last media licence on Thursday.
 
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Laura Cappelle / New York Times:
French director Marion Siéfert blames Meta's opaque policies for banning livestreams of her “Instagram play” about a teen expressing sexuality despite no nudity
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Longtime CNN executive Rebecca Kutler, who was laid off as CNN+ programming chief in June, plans to join MSNBC as SVP of content strategy
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:
[Thread] Most links are now broken to AllThingsD, started by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who unsuccessfully tried to buy its archives from the WSJ in 2013
Ben Smith / @semaforben:
In a memo, Semafor announces 19 founding editorial members and new hires