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2:45 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
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'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 …
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
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Local newsletter network 6AM City says it's in 25 cities, reports $3.5M in 2021 revenue, and expects to hit ~$10M in 2022 revenue ahead of profitability in 2023  —  Press Gazette has listed the biggest newsletter-based publishers in the world and spoken to several about how to build an email-based news business.
Discussion: The Rebooting
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.
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:
[Thread] Most links are now broken on 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/...
Laura Cappelle / New York Times:
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
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 …
Evan Ramstad / Star Tribune:
Star Tribune Publisher Mike Klingensmith says he is retiring; he held top positions at Time Inc. before returning to Minnesota in 2010 to lead the Star Tribune  —  The top executive of Star Tribune Media Co., Mike Klingensmith, announced Thursday that he'll retire, ending …
 
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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
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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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
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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