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Reporting by India's The Wire on Meta and India's ruling party comes under scrutiny after questions about the authenticity of a document and an email screenshot — Who would have the least to lose and most to gain by undermining credibility in the press? — Tech giants and news organisations sparring over news reporting isn't new.
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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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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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Deadline:
Warner Bros. Television Group shuts down its digital short-form programming division Stage 13 and its Television Workshop for emerging writers and directors — Layoffs are underway at Warner Bros Television Group on Tuesday. The cuts include the closing of digital short-form programming division Stage 13 …
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Warner Bros. Television Group laid off 82 employees on October 11, or 19% of its workforce, and cut 43 vacant posts, totaling a 26% drop from ~481 positions
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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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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, @bbgmedia, @seangriffey and @acfou
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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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 …
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
Digiday:
Sources: Apple holds early discussions with media agencies over monetizing its original video content through ads, possibly as early as 2023 — Apple's growing designs on the ad industry are already well-documented with the iPhone maker's media unit already generating $4 billion per year on search.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and @larakiara
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Nielsen Holdings closes its sale to a private equity consortium led by Elliott and Brookfield in a ~$16B all-cash 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 by Elliott Investment Management …
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Nielsen Holdings plc and Inside Radio
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast promotes CFO Mike Cavanagh to president, the third president in the company's 59-year history; Cavanagh will remain CFO — “Mike will be only the third president in the company's 59-year history.” — Comcast said on Wednesday that it has promoted chief financial officer Mike Cavanagh to the role of president.
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