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Jack Queen / Reuters:
A Connecticut jury awards $965M+ in damages to Sandy Hook families of children and staff members in the second defamation trial against Alex Jones and Infowars — A Connecticut jury has reached a damages verdict in a case to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay families …
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Gannett CEO Mike Reed announces austerity measures, including a voluntary severance offer, a 401(k) match suspension, and a five-day mandatory leave in December — New: memo from Gannett CEO Mike Reed announcing “voluntary severance” and other austerity measures at the company: https://twitter.com/...
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance plans to expand its Resso music streaming service globally, starting with over a dozen markets excluding the US, and integrate it into TikTok — Company is negotiating with labels as it seeks more than a dozen new global markets — BeReal vs. TikTok: Can ‘Authentic’ Social Media Compete Without Ads?
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Book excerpt: journalists must adopt new tactics after six years of covering Trump, often failing to label lies and acting as his megaphones and stenographers — I believed in traditional reporting, but Trump changed me — and it should change the rest of the media too. — Perspective by Margaret Sullivan
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix is the top bidder for nearly 300 acres of a former US Army base in New Jersey, where the company would build its second-biggest production complex — The company was the top bidder for land occupied by a former Army base. — Netflix is inching closer to building a huge production studio on the Jersey Shore.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
An interview with Rest of World EIC Anup Kaphle and operations head Eli Berger on paying staff and freelancers fairly around the world and holding more events — Rest of World, a nonprofit newsroom covering global tech stories, now has its first editor-in-chief.
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Digiday:
Sources: Apple held separate exploratory discussions with media agencies about 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.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The UK's Channel 4 buys artworks by Hitler, Picasso, and more and will let a studio audience decide if comedian Jimmy Carr should burn them with a flamethrower — Ian Katz says new show, Art Trouble, celebrates the channel's tradition of ‘iconoclasm and irreverence’
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Research: Netflix released a record 1,026 original TV episodes in Q3 2022, compared to 223 for Prime Video, 194 for Hulu, 140 for Disney+, and 114 for WBD — Netflix has taken peak TV to a new peak. — In a data point sure to fuel more quantity-versus-quality debate …
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Chris Sutcliffe / The Drum:
World Federation of Advertisers and Ebiquity study: 29% of the world's biggest advertisers aim to cut spending in 2023 and 40% aim to maintain marketing budgets — Research into the likely ad spend of the world's biggest brands finds a third plan to cut budgets.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Microsoft says Apple plans to launch desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps for Windows in 2023 — Microsoft today announced that desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps will be available on Windows PCs next year, downloadable from the Microsoft Store. Early beta previews of these apps will launch on the Microsoft Store soon.
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Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Spain's soccer league La Liga secures a court order to freeze millions of dollars in Qatar-owned beIN Media Group assets over unpaid broadcast-rights payments — A multimillion-dollar dispute between the Spanish league and its Qatari broadcast partner, beIN Media Group …
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