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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel — It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia — Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
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Annette Nwabeke / KERA News:
North Texas public radio station KERA plans to buy the Denton Record-Chronicle, which will become a nonprofit, with help from the National Trust for Local News — KERA announced plans Tuesday to acquire the Denton Record-Chronicle, the historical and primary newspaper of Denton County.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018 — Want more stories like this from Ashley Carman? Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows …
Medill:
The McCormick Foundation awards $5.1M in total to Block Club Chicago, Capitol News Illinois, and Injustice Watch, plus $2.4M for a Medill local news accelerator — CHICAGO — The Robert R. McCormick Foundation today announced investments in Block Club Chicago, Capitol News Illinois …
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
A pension fund and Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder sues the company, saying Warner Bros. inflated HBO Max subscribers by up to 10M amid the Discovery merger — Warner Bros. cooked its HBO Max subscriber numbers by as many as 10 million and misled shareholders in other ways that violate …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Hearst expects $12B in 2022 revenue and TV to be the company's biggest source of profits, of which 40%+ come from its specialty media, data, and software units — Hearst expects revenues to grow close to $12 billion this year, up slightly from the record $11.9 billion it earned last year …
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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
A look at the fate of US comics pages, as Lee Enterprises says its newspapers will cut back to “a half-page of comics” and shift to a “uniform set of offerings” — Is this the beginning of the end for the daily printed comics page in many American towns and cities?
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Rest of World:
Netflix's password sharing crackdown sparked protests on social media in Argentina, but a source says the anger didn't translate into a mass subscriber exodus — New prices sparked outrage in Latin America, with some threatening to boycott the platform. — • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
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Reuters:
Sources: Vietnam prepares rules to limit which social media accounts can post news content, expected by the end of 2022, expanding on media guidelines from July — Vietnam is preparing new rules to limit which social media accounts can post news-related content, three people familiar with the matter said …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Tumblr introduces “community labels”, letting users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; no content rules are changing — Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.
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Eamon Lynch / Golfweek:
Sources: Saudi-backed LIV Golf nears a deal to purchase air time for its tournaments on Fox Sports 1; a source says Lachlan Murdoch directed Fox to get involved — LIV Golf is nearing a deal to purchase air time for its tournaments on U.S. cable television, multiple sources have told Golfweek.
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