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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Disney announces a Dish “handshake deal” to temporarily restore its cable networks to Dish Network and Sling TV, ending a two-day blackout as the two negotiate — 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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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
The US Supreme Court agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases involving terrorist content, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, and rule by July 2023 — The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued for hosting and recommending terrorist content …
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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
The Citizen Lab:
Research: Mexican activists and reporters were hit by zero-click Pegasus attacks from 2019 to 2021, after Mexico's president said the country dumped the spyware — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
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@jsrailton, Committee to Protect …, @accessnow, 9to5Mac, @sarafischer, @diazbriseno and @risj_oxford, more at Techmeme »
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
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Filings: TikTok's European business reported $990M+ in 2021 revenue, 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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Adweek, Insider, Engadget, New York Magazine, TechCrunch, The Split, MediaPost, YouGov, CNET and The Verge
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Fandom acquires TV Guide, GameSpot, Metacritic, and other outlets from Red Ventures, sources say for ~$55M in cash, growing its monthly users from 300M to ~350M — The entertainment company's deal follows a wave of consolidation in the publishing world — Entertainment company Fandom Inc …
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Forbes, Variety, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Deadline, The Wrap, @henereyg, The Hollywood Reporter, @saraheneedleman and Media Play News
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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@radleybalko, @radleybalko, @cjciaramella, @budrykzack, @studentactivism, @film_girl, @madisonu, @w_katz1, @drrjkavanagh, @scotthech, @dellcam, @jakebackpack, @sarahkendzior, @attackerman, @scotthech, @kcjohnson9, @rumpfshaker, @bellwak, @samthielman, @chasemadar, @leahgreenb, @breakingbrown, @galvinalmanza, @mcmillen, @kittystryker, @michaelbloch15, @dangillmor, @legaleagle, @heerjeet, @elienyc, @maggie_mcneill, @adamgurri, @davidminpdx, @pamelacolloff, @larabazelon, @equalityalec, @fordm, @markjacob16, @jhweissmann, @mikeduncan, @mmasnick, @innocence, @chrislhayes, @_cingraham, @popehat, @digiphile, @bshelburne, @radleybalko, @radleybalko, @edmorrissey, @radleybalko and @abgutman
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Staff at UK left-wing news site The Canary say they have “overthrown” management and now run the publisher as a co-operative, 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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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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Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, @jbflint, The Hollywood Reporter, TVLine, Next TV, Variety, Media Play News, TVNewsCheck, Adweek and Radio & Television …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at Lachlan Murdoch's lawsuit against Australia's Crikey, the irreverent, left-leaning outlet founded in 2000 to hold “the Murdoch empire to account” — As the Murdoch family contends with billion-dollar defamation suits tied to the 2020 election, Lachlan Murdoch …
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
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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@niemanlab, @evonnyoh, @corinne_podger, @rangemedia4all, @tesszeeks, @niemanlab, @ben_a_goldfarb and @sarahscire
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