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6:35 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 …
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 …
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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.
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
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 …
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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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
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Deadline:
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
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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
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
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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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
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DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-V3, a mixture-of-experts model of 685B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top open-source models

 
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