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9:15 AM ET, October 13, 2022

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
NBC reporter Dasha Burns draws criticism after saying PA Senate candidate John Fetterman struggled with small talk without access to a closed-captioning device  —  An NBC News correspondent who interviewed Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman says an on-air remark …
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 …
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/...
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?
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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
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.
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’
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.
Discussion: MediaPost and Adweek
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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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
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
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Netflix Studios UK, Netflix's UK-based production and content arm, reports £103.2M in 2021 revenue, up 31% YoY, and an £11.9M profit, down from £15.1M in 2020
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Around 14 family films will hit theaters in 2022, compared to 24 in 2019, as Disney+, Netflix, and other services try to fill the family-oriented content void
Discussion: The Wrap
Digiday:
Sources: Apple held separate exploratory discussions with media agencies about monetizing its original video content through ads, possibly as early as 2023
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