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Fox Corp.'s chief legal officer Viet Dinh lacked a law license in CA for nearly four years, which may open up more comms to discovery in defamation cases — Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch's top lawyer spent nearly four years without a license to practice law in California …
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Miklos Bolza / AAP:
An Australian judge declines to throw out Crikey's public interest defense in Lachlan Murdoch's defamation lawsuit; the trial is scheduled for March 27, 2023
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Sydney Morning Herald, @matthewkeyslive, @markdistef, @mediaguardian, @aapnewswire, @jayrosen_nyu, @markdistef, @markdistef, The Desk, Crikey, The Guardian and Yahoo News
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The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using “independent external experts” to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage — Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta …
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@thewire_in, The Verge, Engadget, @indiaspeakspr, @vkrishnaananth, @madarassi, TechCrunch, @rohini_mohan, @semubhatt, @hrnext, Scroll.in, @mujtabaaasif, @gaamuk, Scroll.in, @rahulmukherji5, @ramindesai, @krantinari, @sunandavashisht, @vsirnate, @friedrichpieter, @mikeisaac, @pankajpachauri, @sub8u, @josephmenn, @mrajshekhar and @finestyew, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Cochrane / The Guardian:
Merchandise has become a significant revenue stream for artists, while ticket sales are less reliable, touring is more expensive, and playing fees stay stagnant — No longer limited to cheap T-shirts, music merchandise is a multibillion-dollar business - influencing fashion houses and helping smaller artists stay afloat
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@tersha, @kariebookish and Fortune
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
A profile of IranWire, a digital outlet providing a critical insight into protests in Iran through the creative use of tech and a network of citizen journalists — As protests shake up Iran, the digital news outlet Iran Wire is providing critical insight into the revolt
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@kenroth, @maziarbahari, @iranwireenglish and Fox News
Dake Kang / Associated Press:
A profile of Wang Zhi'an, a former CCTV investigative journalist who fled China to Japan amid Xi's crackdown, and built large followings on Twitter and YouTube — Investigative journalist Wang Zhi'an once exposed corruption, land seizures, and medical malpractice in China …
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@martijnrasser
Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:
Meta threatens to block sharing news content on Facebook in Canada if a proposed federal bill forcing tech giants to pay media outlets for links becomes law — Facebook says it is considering blocking Canadians' access to news sites on its platform, in response to a proposed federal law …
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The Verge, @_llebrun, @thommcveigh, @taylor_owen, @privacylawyer, Engadget, @rexglacer, Wall Street Journal, @jason_kint, @ssharwood, @jason_kint, @johnralstonsaul, @seyitaylor, @ow, @pressgazette, @pressgazette, @mgeist, @jason_kint, @markbourrie, @bgrueskin, @jwsthomson, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @mgeist, @jason_kint, @jason_kint and Meta
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey: 52% of US respondents think advertising should be news outlets' largest source of funding and 26% have ever paid for news or donated money to an outlet — About a quarter of Americans have ever paid for news directly. Those who have are more likely to make over $150,000 a year.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney and F1 sign a new US media rights deal through 2025 to air at least 16 races on ABC and ESPN each season commercial-free along with streaming on ESPN+ — The deal will see ABC, ESPN and ESPN+ air F1 races through the 2025 season. — Formula 1 is staying with Disney.
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Following Comcast's abrupt shutdown of G4 on October 16, former employees describe a directionless gaming network and its leadership's ever-shifting priorities — Constant pivots, high costs and controversy bedeviled the directionless network in the lead-up to its collapse.
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@jonmbrence, @danableahy, @vahn16, @lowcotv, @morgan_sung, @vahn16, @iambrandontv, @papapishu, @launcherwp, @zaaackkoootzer, @vahn16, @greatbritom, @vahn16, @leadergrev, @vahn16, @vahn16, @futterish, @jfwong, @drtoddharper, @arcanistfox, The Jacob Wolf Report, People on the Move and Bloomberg
Joseph Bien-Kahn / Bloomberg:
A profile of Joe Berlinger, who helped redefine crime docuseries as social justice vehicles, as he rides Netflix's wave of popularity for serial killer stories — It comes as a surprise that Serial's Sarah Koenig and her husband have just watched the first two episodes of Dahmer—Monster …
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The Atlantic, El País, @felixgillette, @pkafka, @jbienkahn, SlashFilm and IndieWire
Washington Post:
Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment — TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity. But nothing goes viral like rage.
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Bloomberg, @drewharwell, @danprimack, @gtoppo, El País, @chrisyandle, @thedragonfeeder, @noupside, @thelilynews, @taylorlorenz, @drewharwell, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @bascule, @brianstelter, @mattnavarra, @brosandprose, @marcacaputo, @mattnavarra, @chicoharlan and Big Technology, more at Techmeme »
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
An evaluation of a merged News Corp and Fox, valued at $9.7B and $16B respectively, which if reunified could approach Warner Bros. Discovery's $30B market cap — Deal would seal legacy with favoured heirs, but markets question whether companies should merge in the first place
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Vanity Fair, @perorationer and @peters_malcolm
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