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Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Uber launches a global advertising unit, targeting $1B in annual gross ad bookings by 2024, including by displaying ads within its apps and on top of cars  —  Rideshare company looks to accelerate revenue growth with new business division  —  Uber has launched its global advertising unit …
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
ABC News producer James Gordon Meek abruptly resigned after the FBI raided his home on April 27, 2022; colleagues and neighbors say they haven't seen him since  —  Emmy-winning producer James Gordon Meek had his home raided by the FBI.  His colleagues say they haven't seen him since.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Media executives are not surprised Meta is shutting down Instant Articles, as the social media landscape has shifted significantly since the tool's 2018 launch  —  Meta is turning off Facebook Instant Articles after seven years as the platform continues to draw away from supporting news publishers.
New York Times:
A look at Suzanne Scott's work as Fox News CEO, making the network's brand even stronger, and the role of her internal messages in Dominion's defamation suit  —  Suzanne Scott remade Fox News Media into a lucrative consumer brand.  But a $1.6 billion defamation suit against the company is testing her strategy and leadership.
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
The Wire has been a bulwark against false and propagandistic “news” under Narendra Modi and its botched Meta story is a huge blow to Indian journalism  —  The state of journalism in India, the “world's largest democracy,” has never been so dire.
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Aditi Agrawal / Newslaundry:
The Wire suspends its stories on Meta's controversial XCheck program until it carries out a “thorough review”; cited cybersecurity experts deny being consulted
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
James Bennet and Semafor's Ben Smith leave out a lot about Bennet's firing as the NYT opinion editor; it wasn't just a case of being hounded out by “wokeness”  —  The ossification of James Bennet's departure from The New York Times into a simple morality tale of wokeness run amok is now complete.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at sports rights at SiriusXM, which has exclusive audio deals with the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, and MLB and where sports ads make up nearly 25% of ad sales  —  SiriusXM is increasing its investment in live sports rights in an effort to lure and retain more premium subscribers, CEO Jennifer Witz told Axios.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pinterest partners with Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Merlin, and BMG to let users add popular music to its TikTok-competitor Idea Pins  —  Pinterest's TikTok competitor is gaining new music.  The company announced today its video-focused “Idea Pins” feature will now include …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says its approach to “monetize account sharing” will roll out “more broadly starting in early 2023” and will include the ability to create sub-accounts  —  Netflix plans to crack down on password sharing beginning in 2023.  After giving users the ability …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix beats with Q3 revenue up 5.9% YoY to $7.93B, $1.4B net income, down from $1.45B YoY, 2.4M net global subscribers added, vs. 1.09M est.; stock is up 10%+
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to stop sharing projected subscriber numbers in its earnings starting in Q4 2022, instead stressing new revenue streams like ads and paid sharing
 
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Indian officials in Delhi block Kashmiri freelance photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from flying to New York to receive the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in a ceremony
Joe Reedy / Associated Press:
Amazon plans to stream an NFL game at 3pm ET on Prime Video the day after US Thanksgiving in 2023, paying between $50M and $70M per year for the additional game