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Sources: Rupert Murdoch is exploring recombining Fox Corp and News Corp, after splitting them up in 2013, and the companies are evaluating financial terms — Move would bring assets such as Fox News and The Wall Street Journal back under one roof, nearly a decade after they split
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Bloomberg:
Turkey passes a “disinformation” law ahead of its 2023 elections, mandating one to three years in jail for sharing online content deemed as “false information” — Turkey criminalized the spread of what authorities describe as false information on digital platforms …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta plans to end support for Instant Articles, a source says in mid-April 2023, giving news publishers six months to readjust their Facebook strategies — Meta is ending support for Instant Articles, a proprietary mobile format it debuted in 2015 to quickly load news articles on the Facebook app, Axios has learned.
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Skye Pillsbury / The Squeeze:
Interviews with five current and former Gimlet employees chronicle the podcast unit's slow demise in Spotify's hands: “what we feared...is actually playing out” — Plus: *That Session* at Hot Pod Summit and MPR's Scummy Lawyer — Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙 @ayanaeliza
Bloomberg:
AdImpact expects $9.7B in US midterms campaign ads; Sinclair: H1 political revenue was up 20%+ over 2020; Nexstar: Q2 political revenue was up ~80% over Q2 2020 — Political ads are rolling in at a record pace at TV stations across the US, especially in states with tight races that may decide which party controls the Senate.
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Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine:
A profile of WSJ's chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos, who has become a kind of economic indicator in his own right as he covers the US Federal Reserve — Or, at least, that is Nick Timiraos's reputation on Wall Street and in Washington. — When financial reporters enter …
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Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Netflix says Basic with Ads will cost $6.99/month in the US and debut on November 3 in 12 countries, offering most titles, at up to 720p, and without downloads — Starting in November, Netflix will finally roll out its new ad-supported tier for just a few bucks a month …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
How Netflix plans to fight slowing growth, including quickly building an ad tier; Netflix accounts for ~8% of all US TV viewership, the most of any network
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Max Read / Read Max:
Ex-Gawker EIC Max Read reviews his Substack newsletter after a year with no Twitter presence: 13,185 subscribers, 926 paying, and a $50K annualized revenue — Greetings from Read Max HQ! Next week, this newsletter turns one year old. For the sake of commemorating the milestone …
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Hamish McKenzie / On Substack:
Instead of other newsletter platforms, Substack should be compared to services giving creators direct relationships with fans, like Shopify, Twitch, and Patreon
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
For mobile search result ads, Google is replacing “Ad” with “Sponsored” and moving the bolded label from beside the URL to above it in a separate line — Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance.
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Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
Two men charged with the car-bomb assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia plead guilty to murder on their trial's first day and get 40 years — George and Alfred Degiorgio both given 40-year sentences for killing of Maltese journalist in 2017 car bombing
Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times:
A profile of the literary magazine Oway, among Myanmar's last independent media outlets, as the country is on track to be the world's top jailer of reporters — The Southeast Asian nation has seen a relentless crackdown on free expression, with a small literary magazine emerging as one of the few remaining independent media outlets.
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Public Interest Journalism Initiative:
Australian News Data Report: at least 11 Australian outlets have closed since July 2022, implicitly or explicitly citing increases in the cost of printing — Australia's news sector has experienced the third largest market contraction within a single quarter since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic …
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