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Apple raises its monthly prices for Music by $1 to $10.99 for individuals, TV+ by $2 to $6.99, and Apple One by $2 to $16.95, citing increased licensing costs — Apple is today increasing the prices of its Apple Music and Apple TV+ subscription services. The Apple One bundle price is also rising in unison.
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YouTube rolls out app design changes, including pinch-to-zoom on videos, precise seeking with a more usable preview, an ambient mode, and a darker dark mode — YouTube announced some new design changes that are rolling out now, including pinch-to-zoom for everyone and precise seeking …
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A profile of Axel Springer CEO and Europe's leading media mogul Mathias Döpfner, as he comes under international scrutiny after buying Insider and Politico — Mathias Döpfner is Europe's leading media mogul; the most influential man you've never heard of
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and @jamesrbuk


Fox Chief Legal Officer Viet Dinh lacked a California law license for nearly four years, which may open more communications 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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Consolidation between media and entertainment as well as TV and gaming seems inevitable, as streaming services struggle to make up for pay TV's rapid decline — We just wrapped the first week of corporate earnings season (for tech and entertainment), which means we are starting to get a glimpse …
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@lucas_shaw, Vanity Fair, Forbes, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw


RT suspends Director of Broadcasting Anton Krasovsky after he made calls on air to “drown or burn” Ukrainian children who viewed Soviet Russia as an occupier — A host at Russia's state-funded broadcaster RT was suspended Sunday after he made calls on the air to “drown or burn” …
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The BBC says 4.3M people on average used its Sounds app every week between July and September 2022 and 54% of overall plays on BBC Sounds were for live content — There was an average 4.3 million people using BBC Sounds every week between July and September, with a record 4.53m during the week following the mini-budget
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@adamfleming, @jonathanaspinw1 and @pressgazette


Ahead of the 2022 midterms, US political campaigns use voter-profiling companies with vast amounts of data and scores to target ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon — To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.
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Court docs: former Clark County Administrator Robert Telles is indicted on a murder charge in the stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German — A former Las Vegas-area politician has been indicted on a murder charge — which carries the possibility of the death penalty …
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Columbia Journalism Review


Research: 66% of US households with a TV have some form of pay TV, down from 79% in 2017; ~31% of non-subscribers last had pay TV within the past three years — Just two-thirds of U.S. TV households currently have some form of pay TV — down from 79% in 2017, according to a national survey …
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A look at the BBC's plans to reduce Africa coverage: cutting ~50 of 130 jobs, shutting down services like Somali TV and Afrique TV, and shifting to digital — Alexis is Semafor's Managing Editor for Africa, joining us from the Financial Times. — Yinka is Semafor's Africa Editor, and was the founding editor of Quartz Africa.
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Austin-based staff at Alphabet subcontractor YouTube Music Content Operations file with the NLRB for union recognition after a supermajority signed union cards — A group of workers at YouTube Music Content Operations, an Alphabet subcontractor, have filed with the National Labor Relations Board …
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Polygon


Internal emails: Jonathan Weber, EIC of The San Francisco Standard, an online news outlet launched in 2021, is stepping down, citing differences over strategy — Jonathan Weber, the editor-in-chief of The San Francisco Standard, an online news publication launched in 2021 with funding …
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