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8:00 AM ET, October 5, 2022

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 Top News: 
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Meta plans to shut down its newsletter subscription service Bulletin by early 2023; the Substack competitor launched in January 2021 and now has 120+ writers  —  The social media company plans to bring more content back to the Facebook platform directly.  —  Meta will be shutting down Bulletin …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: executives plan to shift New York Daily News coverage to local content about New York City; a source says the print edition will gain about eight pages  —  The New York Daily News plans to shift its coverage priorities toward producing more local content about issues impacting New York City …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Public Radio names LaFontaine Oliver, the CEO of Baltimore's WYPR, as its CEO, starting in January; previous CEO Goli Sheikholeslami left for Politico  —  Mr. Oliver is currently the president and chief executive of Baltimore's flagship public radio station, WYPR.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at Russian-language news startup Helpdesk, a team of 50 Russian and Ukrainian journalists answering questions on the invasion, mobilizations, and more  —  “My son might be mobilized.  I am panicking.  What can I do?”  “Can I cross the border in a car that isn't registered in my name?”
Jenn Topper / The Reporters Committee …:
ProJourn, which provides journalists with no-cost legal help for pre-publication review and public records access, will expand after getting a $1.3M grant  —  ProJourn announces a $1.3 million grant, signs up new law firm partners, releases landscape report
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
A look at the Internet Archive, a preservation project that grew from 2TB in 1997 to ~100PB now, and issues with scraping paywalled news sites and social media  —  Within the walls of a beautiful former church in San Francisco's Richmond district, racks of computer servers hum and blink with activity.
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
A lawsuit argues Google broke a Minnesota law requiring firms to destroy video rental records since Google preserves data from the Play Store, YouTube, and more  —  A Minnesota man is suing Google for purportedly violating a state law that requires video rental companies to destroy certain purchase records.
Discussion: MediaPost, Thanks:@matthewkeyslive
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell: Peacock added 2M+ paid subscribers in Q3 2022 to top 15M, after reclaiming NBCU next-day rights from Hulu; Q2 subscribers were flat  —  Has Peacock regained its forward momentum?  —  NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell claimed the media company's flagship streamer notched healthy growth …
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Kat Downs Mulder, Washington Post's chief product officer and managing editor, joins Yahoo News as SVP and GM, the third longtime C-suite exec to leave in 2022
J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
After Ned Fulmer admitted to a “consensual” workplace affair, YouTube comedy group The Try Guys removed him from new videos amid an internal investigation
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Washington Post:
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested the Ukraine war on live TV in March 2022, escapes house arrest before her trial; she faces up to 10 years
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
The Onion files an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in support of Anthony Novak, arrested for his Facebook page parodying an Ohio police department's page
New York Times:
Philippine police say Percival Mabasa, a news radio host and critic of President Marcos Jr., was shot dead on October 3, the second journalist killed since June
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Court filing: Donald Trump sues CNN for defamation, seeking $475M in damages and accusing the network of smearing him to undermine a potential re-election run
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished

 
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