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5:40 PM ET, September 29, 2022

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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.
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 …
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
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.
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.
Discussion: @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 …
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.”
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.
Discussion: Deadline and Variety
 
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Sources: in a WBD town hall, CEO David Zaslav denied rumors of a merger or a sale: “We are not for sale, absolutely, not for sale”; rumors point to Comcast
Reuters:
Dyson, Mazda, and others suspended Twitter marketing campaigns because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets publicly soliciting or selling child porn
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils search results with machine-translated news, coming in early 2023, and a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out now on mobile in the US
The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN laid off the last remaining CNN+ employees, around 20 people, on September 28, a few days after laying off eight staff from CNN's audio division
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon updates its Fire TV lineup with a new $140 Fire TV Cube media player, Fire TV Omni QLED Series starting at $800, and a new $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro
David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon unveils the $340 Kindle Scribe, an Oasis-like device for reading and writing with a 10.2" E Ink display and two stylus options, available to preorder
Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Epix plans to rebrand as MGM+ on January 15, 2023; Epix 2 will become MGM+ Hits, Epix Hits will become MGM+ Marquee, and Epix Drive-In will become MGM+ Drive-In
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Lionsgate rebrands its international streaming service StarzPlay as Lionsgate+; SEC filing: the company is exploring spinning off its studio business, not Starz
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers

 
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