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11:55 AM ET, October 23, 2022

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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
Discussion: Fortune
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 …
Discussion: @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 …
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.
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.
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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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear says the US needs legislation that would create “a third option” between contractors and employees to classify creators and gig workers  —  Twitch Chief Executive Officer Emmett Shear thinks US employment laws could be improved to better support content creators …
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Spotify says Taylor Swift's 10th album, Midnights, broke the service's record for the most-streamed album in a single day  —  Spotify announced the news on its socials Friday afternoon, writing: “And before the clock could even strike midnight on October 22nd, Taylor Swift broke the record …
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Danielle De Wolfe / The Guardian:
A look at recent podcast copyright and trademark infringement issues, after Spotify replaced the hosts of a Spotify Original and Sony copied a show's premise
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Jennifer Korn / CNN:
When researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinformation, TikTok approved 90%, Facebook approved a “significant number”, and YouTube approved zero
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
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
A deep dive into the fight between Disney and Governor Ron DeSantis over the “don't say gay” bill, which delayed moving 2,000 high-paid Disney jobs to Florida
 

 
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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

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

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency

 
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