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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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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.
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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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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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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Peter White / Deadline:
Warner Bros. Discovery partly reverses course and plans to move its Directors' Workshop and Writers' Workshop from Warner Bros. Television to its DEI division — Warner Bros. Discovery has performed a quick U-turn on its decision to close its Writers and Directors Workshops.
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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
Deadline:
Warner Bros. Television Group shuts down its digital short-form programming division Stage 13 and its Television Workshop for emerging writers and directors
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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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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast promotes CFO Mike Cavanagh to president, the third president in the company's 59-year history; Cavanagh, who joined Comcast in 2015, will remain the CFO — “Mike will be only the third president in the company's 59-year history.” — Comcast said on Wednesday that it has promoted …
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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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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 — TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Netflix joins the British ratings agency BARB as a full member, planning to publish independently audited viewing figures on individual shows for the first time — Streaming service's decision to sign up to independent ratings agency is world first and will give insight into its cultural power
Helen Pidd / The Guardian:
A profile of Alex Belfield, an ex-BBC radio presenter jailed for five and a half years in September for online stalking of several BBC presenters and others — Alex Belfield's online harassment made life misery for BBC presenters Jeremy Vine, Liz Green and many others. Why did it take so long to bring him to justice?
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