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5:30 PM ET, September 19, 2022

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:

Internal email: Bustle Digital Group is shuttering its tech title Input and wil lay off 19 staffers, including 10 at pop culture outlet Mic — The downturn in the digital advertising market has affected yet another publisher, marking at least the third official round of layoffs prompted by the slowdown since May.

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

UK broadcasters, radio stations, digital platforms, outdoor ad companies, and others are set to lose revenue due to an ad blackout during the Queen's funeral — Block on adverts around coverage will hit broadcasters hard and could cancel out payday for newspapers from extra sales

Discussion: The Guardian, @jeffjarvis, @jamesrbuk, The i Paper, @jessiegender, @danmcdaid, @lewizrs, @jonnelledge, @edmoore, @financialtimes, @hannaflint and @scottygb

K.J. Yossman / Variety:

Paramount-owned Channel 5 was the only UK broadcaster not to show any royal-related coverage during the Queen's funeral, instead showing The Emoji Movie — While BBC One, BBC Two and ITV broadcast the funeral live and Channel 4 showed a documentary on the Queen, Channel 5 instead broadcast …

Discussion: The A.V. Club, @davemacladd, @afcisaac5_, @scottygb, @rhysluvv, @captain_az, @chiwithac, @jl1894, @tdnightingale, @andyrockcandy, Rolling Stone, New York Post, @scottygb, @stavvers, @ornsack, Deadline, Decider and Insider

Knight Foundation:

Knight Foundation announces $4.75M in funding to the Institute for Nonprofit News, $2.85M to LION Publishers, and $2.01M to CUNY's Center for Community Media — Knight commits more than $9 million to uplift vital networks for nonprofit, for-profit, diverse local news publishers

Discussion: LION Publishers, @ckrewson, @inn, @kimfox, @scottbrodbeck, @mediatwit and @ckrewson

Brian Witte / Associated Press:

Baltimore judge orders the release of Adnan Syed, whose 1999 murder trial gained widespread attention from the Serial podcast, after overturning his conviction — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee …

Politico:

Sources detail growing pains at LA Times relating to its billionaire owner Dr. Soon-Shiong, as he and his family face allegations of meddling with coverage — This past May, a young reporter for the Los Angeles Times working a weekend shift filed a 190-word story about people suspected …

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Mainstream media still refuses to call the MAGA movement a far-right cult, even after Trump's Ohio rally with one-armed salutes and a QAnon soundtrack — Donald Trump has gone full QAnon. As he spoke during a rally for Ohio Republican candidates on Saturday, a soundtrack associated with the conspiracy theory played.

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, @soledadobrien, @maggienyt, @ewerickson, @stevesilberman, @jrubinblogger and @jrubinblogger

Nicole Sperling / New York Times:

After Will Smith's Oscar slap, sources detail Apple's dilemma over releasing Emancipation, the $120M Civil War drama starring Smith that wrapped earlier in 2022 — The Civil War drama “Emancipation” finished filming early this year. Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.

Discussion: ScreenRant, Numlock News, @erikaharold, The Playlist, @theferocity, @kevinlevin, Decider, @ljmontello, @hkanji, Mediaite, @brockm, The Wrap, New York Post and Protocol, more at Techmeme »

Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:

A profile of GQ editor Will Welch, appointed in 2019, as he tries to revitalize the storied men's magazine and reflect a “new masculinity” in the post-MeToo age — When he got the job as top editor, a friend told him, “Yikes.” Now, with an assist from Brad Pitt, he has remade the men's magazine for the post-#MeToo age.

Discussion: @rafa_mangual, @hhavrilesky, @s_evangelina, @donetodeath and @mr_berman

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:

Conservative video platform Rumble, backed by Thiel, closed up 39.62% after going public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M — Rumble Inc., the conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, became a publicly traded company Monday through a deal …

Discussion: @dzuidijk and CNBC, more at Techmeme »

Bill McKibben / New Yorker:

Vermont's new and legacy local news sites, radio stations, and newspapers show that the decline of serious local journalism is not as inevitable as some imagine — Investigative journalism matters—and so does community journalism. — An extensive analysis conducted in 2020 by ProPublica …

Discussion: @newyorker, @arnold_ventures, @sesmith, @aaronpcalvin, @jwehrens, @sarabethberman, @mikaelalefrak, @azirulnick, @seanwoods12, @wcshaw, @niemanlab, @bendangl, @billmckibben, @stormskijournal and @dankennedy_nu

Jem Aswad / Variety:

Sources: YouTube's Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl is the frontrunner to become the next CEO of Warner Music when he leaves in 2023 — When YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl announced late last month that he'll be leaving the company after 12 years in the job …

Discussion: Bloomberg and @lucas_shaw

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sunday morning talk shows, once an integral part of the Beltway news ecosystem, are scrambling to tweak their format as ratings decline and VIP guests stay away

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
WSJ names editor Elena Cherney as its new Chief News Editor; Coverage Chief for Speed & Trending Kimberly Johnson will also act as Deputy Chief News Editor

Marvin Olasky / Current:
World's former EIC writes about his November 2021 resignation, after the Christian outlet's board launched an “opinion section” to embrace Trumpist conspiracies

Discussion: @jaredoliphint, @claremalone, @katelynbeaty, @famstudies and @aaron_renn

Will Pritchard / The Guardian:
The UK's independent radio stations that consoled listeners during lockdowns and sustained musicians, like Worldwide FM and Threads, struggle under rising costs

Discussion: @grahamblaydon, @wf_pritchard, @wf_pritchard, @samliddicott, @wf_pritchard, @wf_pritchard and @chalravens

Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Association of American Publishers: book industry sales rose 12.3% YoY to $29.33B in 2021; ebooks sales fell 5% to $1.97B; audiobook sales grew 12.8% to $1.75B

New York Times:
A look at Jomboy Media, a sports outlet that avoids toxicity and polarization on social media, has 64 staffers and nearly 24 podcasts, and raised a $5M Series A

Discussion: @yankeesgf and @zschonbrun

Dylan Byers / Puck:
CNN's revamped morning show led by Don Lemon reveals linear media's hard new reality: in a post-Maddow, post-Cuomo world, it's no longer all about primetime

Discussion: @tvgrimreaper, @pucknews, @eugene_scott, @owillis, @joanespositochi, @protecttruth_, @jayrosen_nyu and @ericschultz

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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
French broadcasters TF1 and M6 drop their merger plans, saying the French Competition Authority would only approve the deal if one of the channels was divested

Discussion: @lewis_crofts, @deadline, Gearrice, C21Media, Advanced Television, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Variety, Broadband TV News, Digital TV Europe, Financial Times, The Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg

The Hollywood Reporter:
Streaming is transforming documentary filmmaking by paying subjects, scrunching timelines, and introducing techniques from reality TV, which many find worrying

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A look at falling traffic and advertising at local news sites, with regional papers seeing the worst of it, and how publishers are rethinking digital strategies

Discussion: American Press Institute, @spj_tweets, @rodmickleburgh, Better News and @ampress

Jeff Green / Bloomberg:
Disney releases adjusted pay data for US employees by race and gender for the first time; women earned 99.4% of men and POC earned 99.8% of white employees

Discussion: @baekdal

Washington Post:
The Washington Post's Outlook, the “brains section” of commentary and analysis in the newspaper's Sunday edition for nearly 70 years, publishes its last note

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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding”

Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5

Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg:
The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with AI product companies in the US

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