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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.
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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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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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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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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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 reduce horse-race election coverage to focus on voters by surveying readers, highlighting judges' records, and more — 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
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Sun says its US site, launched in January 2020, now has almost 100 editorial staff and that August 2022 was the US Sun's 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” …
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