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Anna Merlan / VICE:
Leaked footage: Fox edited out Kanye West's bigoted and bizarre statements to Tucker Carlson about Jewish people, “fake children”, visions from God, and more — Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about “fake children …
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, opened in 2021 to let anyone “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate users with FLOW tokens or stablecoins — You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace …
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@vaultbycnn, CoinDesk, @scruffur, @mdudas, @emilyjnicolle, @agraham999, Fortune, @akwyz, @patdennis, The Hill, @pressgazette, @randy_gage, @andy8052, @rjcc, @neerajka, @sarahscire, @jbenton and Shelly Palmer, more at Techmeme »
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal partners with Meta to bring VR experiences to Quest headsets in 2023, from The Office, DreamWorks, Blumhouse, the Peacock streaming app, and more — Ready to mingle with the Dunder Mifflin gang in virtual reality? — Meta, looking to spark broader interest in VR …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media plans to stop serving open-market third-party programmatic display ads in 2023 and ditch Taboola recommendations, to improve the user experience — The publisher will use the inventory, in part, to promote other product offerings — The business news publisher Bloomberg Media …
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The Rebooting, @markstenberg3, @acfou, @seangriffey and AdExchanger
Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Legendary Television places President Chris Albrecht on leave; an upcoming book details an incident at HBO where Albrecht allegedly disparaged a staff member — According to material viewed by THR from a forthcoming book about HBO, the former network chairman allegedly disparaged a staffer who took a settlement after he choked her.
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Los Angeles Times, PenguinRandomhouse.com, Variety, @kimmasters, @tylerdinucci, @lindaholmes, @lucas_shaw, @fatgirlinohio, @thefienprint, Observer, Bloomberg, The Wrap and Deadline
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Over a dozen job openings hint TikTok plans to open fulfillment centers in the US as the company looks to build an “international e-commerce fulfillment system” — TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system …
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CNN, @thedragonfeeder, @glenngabe, @bradmossesq, @johnkoetsier, @venturetwins, @sarafischer, The Verge and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
The UK's Reach says the marketing blackout after the Queen's death sent print advertising down by almost a third and digital revenue down 8% in September 2022 — Reach's print advertising drops by a third in September and digital revenues slide — The publisher of the Daily Express …
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Press Gazette and HoldtheFrontPage
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times reports a £4.3M pre-tax profit in 2021, up from a £29M pre-tax loss in 2020, and a £31M operating profit on £438M of 2021 operating revenue — The Financial Times has reported a strong “rebound” from Covid-19 in 2021, returning to profitability and growing revenues by almost a fifth.
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@wturvill
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Nikki Finke, who presented herself as a no-bullshit reporter, perverted the profession by blackmailing sources and weaponizing the internet to push her agenda — Finke presented herself as a no-bullshit reporter who kept Hollywood moguls honest, and we all found her copy completely irresistible.
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@semaforben, The Ankler, @katierosman, @sonnybunch, Poynter, @richardrushfield, @nancyromm, @semaforben, @josephkapsch, @themaxburns, @raju, @henryfingjames, @espiers, @ccadelago, Next TV, @sherman4949, New York Times, @bradesposito, @karaswisher, @scottfeinberg, @sowmyak, Wall Street Journal, @sdkstl, CNN, The Wrap, The Hill, Variety, Deadline, IndieWire, The Daily Beast and TVNewsCheck
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
News UK has always said phone hacking only happened at News of the World but eight people have pending Sun-only legal claims and three more settled with The Sun — Eight individuals have legal cases against tabloid alleging wrongdoing including when Brooks was editor
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@mrjamesob, @scobie and @jimwaterson
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Nielsen Holdings closes its sale to a PE group led by Elliott Investment Management and Brookfield Business Partners, in an all-cash ~$16B deal including debt — Deal comes before Nielsen One rollout — Nielsen Holdings said that it completed its sale to a group of private-equity investors led …
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Inside Radio and Nielsen Holdings plc
Jairo Bolledo / RAPPLER:
Philippine Court of Appeals denies Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos' motion for reconsideration in their cyber libel case — (1st UPDATE) 'The ongoing campaign of harassment and intimidation against me and Rappler continues, and the Philippines legal system is not doing enough to stop it …
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Committee to Protect …, @marcielscot, Reuters, @cdeloire, @hneumannmep, @jason_kint, @luminategroup, Al Jazeera, @moveph and @rapplerdotcom
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