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2:30 AM ET, October 17, 2022

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 Top News: 
Mashable:
TikTok's infinite scroll and lack of live links raise the risk of viral misleading info; news outlets using the app should establish editorial standards early  —  On TikTok, screenshots and a lack of context reign supreme.  —  It's not an uncommon occurrence these days for a friend to tell …
Discussion: Washington Post, @cnyari and The Hill
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
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Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Qatar's government imposes strict restrictions on broadcasters covering the FIFA World Cup, including banning filming at migrant workers' accommodation sites  —  Conditions restrict where international broadcasters, including BBC and ITV, are permitted to film
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Comcast's Spectacor division is shutting down its video game-centric network G4 TV, just a year after its relaunch  —  EXCLUSIVE: Comcast's Spectacor division is pulling the plug on video game-centric network G4 TV, whose early incarnation in the 2000s remains a cultural touchstone for many millennials, just a year after its relaunch.
Discussion: The Desk, The Wrap, Variety and The Verge
Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports:
“Objectivity” is a vague, unevenly applied term; transparency, accuracy, and fairness in journalism matter more, as old terms like “values voters” lose meaning  —  How Herschel Walker's Senate campaign and Nina Totenberg's memoir helped me clarify my thinking about journalistic ethics
Discussion: @mayerjoy
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.
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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”
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.
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
MUSO: visits to pirate sites from January to August 2022 grew 21.9% YoY to 141.7B; 46.6% of traffic went to TV content, 27.8% to publishing, and 12.4% to film  —  Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant.  Every day pirate sites and services are used by millions of people worldwide.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
The NFL's Sunday Ticket broadcast rights have yet to be awarded, as Apple 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 …
Suranjana Tewari / BBC:
Former and current Al Jazeera staff allege that their complaints of harassment and bullying by journalist Kamahl Santamaria and others went largely unaddressed  —  Kamahl Santamaria, a veteran television journalist, was just 32 days into his job at New Zealand's top broadcaster TVNZ when he resigned.
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 …
 
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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
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
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Bloomberg:
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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
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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