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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: CNN CEO Chris Licht has finished a six-month business review, as part of a plan to eliminate 1,000+ Warner Bros. Discovery jobs before the end of 2022 — - CNN CEO Chris Licht talked to CNBC about why he took the job, why he thinks some coverage of him has been “painfully inaccurate …
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The Wire:
The Wire apologizes, says technical evidence should have been independently verified, and says it was deceived “by a member of our Meta investigation team” — Last week, The Wire formally retracted its Meta stories after conducting an internal review of the technical source material used, with the help of external experts.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Texas Tribune, one of the biggest nonprofit US newsrooms, names Sonal Shah as its CEO; The Tribune has 10K+ paying readers and 175K+ newsletter subscribers — Sonal Shah will take over from Evan Smith, who has run the nonprofit news organization since he co-founded it in 2009.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media “boosts” to grow its business “while undercutting others in the digital economy” — Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Spotify says Apple's behavior is “choking competition” after Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchasing process three times for breaking App Store rules
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with Semafor EIC Ben Smith on “Semaform”, targeting “the dissatisfied middle”, and rejected ideas like showing an advance copy of an article to its subject — A Q&A with the co-founder of the news startup. — Ben Smith generates attention anywhere he goes.
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Vanity Fair, @ranimolla, @tvanswerman, @mattzeitlin, @pkafka and @shwinyo
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg Media is dropping programmatic ads from its website and apps starting on January 1, 2023, requiring brands to work directly with its media team — Bloomberg Media CEO Scott Havens writes about why it's dropping programmatic advertising at the end of the year:
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@fxflow
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN sells a majority stake in 27-year-old extreme sports franchise X Games to private equity firm MSP Sports; ESPN will remain its US linear broadcast partner — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MSP will assume day-to-day operational control of the X Games business, which will spin off from ESPN.
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
A look at Cities 92.9, an Illinois talk radio station pushing election misinformation, run by a QAnon fan who studied journalism at Illinois State University — NORMAL, Ill. — When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's campaign bus came to town recently, the local conservative talk radio station covered the event …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
FOI request: the BBC disciplined only one journalist over social media use between September 2021 and August 2022, the second year under the outlet's guidelines — Only one BBC journalist was formally disciplined for breaking the corporation's social media guidelines in the past year.
Katie Hawkins-Gaar / Nieman Lab:
Spotlight PA, Injustice Watch, and The 19th move away from horse-race election coverage, focusing on voters, highlighting judges' records, and surveying readers — As the U.S. heads into the 2022 midterm elections, plenty of newsrooms around the country are providing the same sort of coverage they always have.
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@inn, @katiehawk, @terryparrisjr and American Press Institute
Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
A former South China Morning Post editor says two reporters quit in 2021 after the outlet axed their investigation into China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang — Two reporters quit the South China Morning Post (SCMP) last year after a senior editor axed their three-month investigation …
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@uyghurproject, @rushanabbas and @tomashbrook
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The US Sun, launched three years ago, says it now has almost 100 journalists in New York and August was its best month yet with 250M page views — Three years after launching in the US, bosses at The Sun say they have “incredibly ambitious aspirations” and “don't really see a ceiling” on how far they can grow across the Atlantic.
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