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CNN:
Maggie Haberman's book details Trump berating George Stephanopoulos over interview questions about Russia, Murdoch revealing his successor to Trump, and more — Maggie Haberman's highly anticipated magnum opus on Donald Trump is less than a week away — and the book is already making waves.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
BBC World Service plans to close or make some stations digital-only and relocate some staff away from the UK, leading to ~382 jobs lost, as part of a £30M cut — UPDATE 03:46 a.m PT: The BBC has confirmed the relocation of some of its World Service journalists away from the UK …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack announces new features to help newsletters increase subscribers, including web prompts and a referral program, and acquires email marketing startup Yem — Substack has acquired Yem, a small startup that helps newsletter writers grow their email lists through email marketing campaigns …
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On Substack, @reidtandy and Substack
Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Bill Plante, who covered the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and four presidencies as a CBS News correspondent for more than half a century, dies at 84 — He became a fixture of American television sets, covering the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and four presidencies
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HuffPost, CBS News, @edokeefe, @edokeefe, @tvietor08, @tomcrann, @edokeefe, @edokeefe, The Hollywood Reporter, @nprkelly, @edokeefe, The Wrap, @tonyfratto, @ejdionne, @zevshalev, @cbctom, @dpotternews, @ruralj, @djjudd, @jimsciutto, @phil_mattingly, @jimrutenberg, @sarah_boxer, @kevinmaddendc, CBS News, New York Times and Deadline
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Roku signs up to use Nielsen One, which launches in December 2022, for four-screen measurement across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and traditional TV — Today, Nielsen announced that Roku plans to enable four-screen measurement across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and traditional TV.
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Ad Age, Adweek, Nielsen Holdings plc, The Wrap, Yahoo News, @tvgrimreaper, Next TV, Media Play News and MediaPost
Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Memo: Recurrent Ventures, which shut down MEL Magazine in July 2022, lays off staff across editorial and other teams; it is not clear how many were affected — - Layoffs have hit Recurrent Ventures, the private-equity-backed owner of digital media properties including Popular Science and The Drive.
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@mediaevan, @perlberg, @cragcrest and @simonowens
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Crooked Media hires Lucinda Treat, formerly chief legal officer at Vice Media Group, as CEO and announces that Soros Fund Management has taken a minority stake — Crooked Media is looking to take its progressive-politics podcast empire to the next level. — The L.A.-based media company …
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Mather Economics: the number of local US outlet digital subscribers will pass print subscribers in 2023; print and digital revenue was split 85%-15% in May 2022 — Digital subscriptions are providing some glimmers of light for under -pressure local news publishers in the US.
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@kitson, @lanceulanoff and Toolkits
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
An advocacy group and 300+ authors demand publishers and trade groups stop undermining libraries, after a lawsuit against the Internet Archive's lending program — A group of authors has teamed up with advocacy group Fight for the Future to publish an open letter demanding that publishers …
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@fightfortheftr, MediaPost, @kateo, Fight for the Future, AAP, The Authors Guild, @amandapalmer, @fightfortheftr, @mariannedh, @baratunde, @dangillmor, @ntnsndr, @bostonjoan, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @moonalice, @fightfortheftr, The Hill, @brewster_kahle, @erinisaway, @fightfortheftr, @senficon, @alysiareiner and Deadline
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Songs are staying on the US top charts for longer than ever; in July and August, the average Spotify top 200 song was there for 39 weeks, up 11 weeks over 2019 — Morgan Wallen was supposed to be canceled. The 29-year-old country star was dropped by his talent agency and banned by radio stations …
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@tpcarney, @lucas_shaw and @anildash
Brent Lang / Variety:
Private equity firm Centricus buys a majority stake in SK Global Entertainment, the producer of Crazy Rich Asians, a source says for a low-to-mid nine figure — Centricus has acquired a majority stake in SK Global Entertainment, the independent film and television production and finance company behind “Crazy Rich Asians.”
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The Wrap, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and WORLD SCREEN
Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Frontline PBS, Vice, ESPN, Al Jazeera, and others took home awards at the 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards — The first night of the 43rd annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, honoring the winners in the News categories, was held Wednesday in New York City.
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