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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Disney announces a “handshake deal” with Dish to temporarily restore its cable networks to Dish's satellite service and Sling TV, ending a two-day blackout — Disney and Dish have taken a major step towards a new carriage agreement after their dispute led to the Disney networks …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
How Dateline, NBC's 30-year-old true crime TV show, successfully expanded into several original podcast series, as well as podcasts from repurposed TV segments — The true crime storytelling that has done so well for so long on television seems to have met a moment in an entirely new medium.
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@dominiquenbc, @datelinenbc, @koblin, @jaycaruso, @harrymccracken and The Week
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The SCOTUS agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both stemming from terrorist content on the services — The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued for hosting and recommending terrorist content …
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Filings: TikTok's European business reports $990M revenue in 2021, up from $172M in 2020, and a $896M loss due to increased spending on its 4,396 staff — Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn but losses also jump after recruiting thousands more staff
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off
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Insider, MediaPost, New York Magazine, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Split, YouGov, CNET and The Verge
Radley Balko / @radleybalko:
[Thread] Radley Balko is leaving The Washington Post's Opinion section on December 1 and launches a Substack on civil liberties and the criminal justice system — So after nine years, I'm being let go by the Washington Post. This is disappointing but not surprising. In recent years, the Opinion leadership has made it increasingly difficult to do the reporting & in-depth analysis I was hired to do — in favor of short, hot takes.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Staff at UK left-wing news outlet The Canary say they have “overthrown” management and are running the publisher as a co-op, after finding “gross inequalities” — Staff at The Canary say they have “overthrown” the left-wing news site's management and are now running the publisher as a co-operative.
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Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic:
A profile of trade publisher IPVM, which became a principal source of investigative reporting on China's surveillance state, working with major US news outlets — How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs?
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@m_johnston1, @editorbtb, @tmclaughlin3, @dahlialpeterson, @marykissel and @uyghurproject
Mikey O'Connell / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter, a year after selling Hello Sunshine to Candle Media, on upcoming shows, acquisition targets, #MeToo, and more — Hello Sunshine's top creative duo — and THR's TV Producers of the Year — on that $900 million sale, a rom-com renaissance …
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The Playlist, @misssoniarao, ScreenRant and Vanity Fair
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Mark Pedowitz, the chairman and CEO of The CW for 11 years, plans to leave as Nexstar completes its acquisition of a 75% controlling stake in the network — Mark Pedowitz, who has served as chairman and CEO of The CW for the past 11 years, will be exiting the network as Nexstar completes …
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MediaPost, Deadline, Next TV, Adweek, Variety, Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter, TVNewsCheck, @jbflint, TVLine and Radio & Television …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at Spokane, Washington-based Range Media, a worker-owned local news outlet that says it's on track to reach ~2,000 members paying $10/month or $100/year — “Are we moving fast enough for the length of runway we have to lift off? Or do we need to, you know, keep paving and quickly build more runway?
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@sarahscire, @ben_a_goldfarb, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @rangemedia4all, @evonnyoh, @corinne_podger and @tesszeeks
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
MSNBC President says Rachel Maddow will launch a podcast, her first project “in the expanding Rachel universe”, on Oct. 10 as part of a deal with NBCUniversal — Rachel Maddow is launching another new podcast series with MSNBC, this time examining the history of an 80-year-old plot to undermine democracy.
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Adweek, MSNBC.com and Rolling Stone
The Citizen Lab:
Research: Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 used 0-click exploits, after Mexico's president called Pegasus a thing of the past — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
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@jsrailton, 9to5Mac, @diazbriseno and @risj_oxford, more at Techmeme »
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