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1:20 AM ET, October 16, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
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
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.
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
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Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
A look at Spotify's podcast exclusivity strategy, which led to 75% audience drops for some Gimlet shows and caused others, like the Obamas, not to renew deals  —  The open podcast ecosystem isn't dead yet.  —  Welcome!  I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter.
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 …
Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Qatari government imposes stringent restrictions on broadcasters covering the FIFA World Cup, including a ban on filming near migrant workers' accommodations  —  Conditions restrict where international broadcasters, including BBC and ITV, are permitted to film
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
NFL's Sunday Ticket broadcast rights are yet to be awarded, as Apple says it wants to partner with sports leagues rather than act as a standard rental conduit  —  - The NFL still hasn't picked a winner in its Sunday Ticket negotiations.  — Apple's discussions for the package are complicated …
Alex Marshall / New York Times:
A profile of Jacques Testard, the founder of the UK's Fitzcarraldo Editions; since the imprint's founding in 2014, three of its authors received the Nobel Prize  —  Fitzcarraldo Editions is not yet 10 years old and has only six full-time staff members.  Since its founding …
Discussion: @rinachandran
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.
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 …
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.
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  —  Around noon on Wednesday, March 16, hundreds of Netflix Inc. employees gathered on the second floor of the Anaheim Hilton Hotel expecting to hear good news.
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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
 
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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
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