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6:15 PM ET, October 26, 2022

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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 …
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:
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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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN sells a majority stake in its 27-year-old extreme sports franchise X Games to PE firm MSP Sports; ESPN will continue as 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.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg Media is dropping programmatic ads from its site and apps starting 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:
Discussion: @fxflow
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
A look at Cities 92.9, a talk radio station spreading election misinfo in Illinois, run by a QAnon adherent 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 …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
FOI request: the BBC says one journalist has been disciplined over social media use between September 2021 and August 2022, the second year under its 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.
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Neema Roshania Patel, a founding editor of The Lily, The Washington Post's news site for millennial women, dies of gastric cancer at 35  —  Neema Roshania Patel, a founding editor of The Washington Post's news site for millennial women, The Lily, and most recently an editor …
 
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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
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
With Hollywood cutting spending, some worry that DEI initiatives spurred by the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter protests will stagnate or be rolled back
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says US subscribers can expect price hikes in 2023, after recent increases by Apple and YouTube; Premium has cost $9.99/month since 2011
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Lila Shapiro / New York Magazine:
A look at writer and filmmaker Stephen Elliott's motivations in the upcoming defamation case he has brought against Shitty Media Men list creator Moira Donegan
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn and DC Films producer Peter Safran will co-lead DC Studios, the Warner Bros. Discovery unit set to replace DC Films
Therese Bottomly / Oregonian:
The Oregonian issues an apology for its past promotion of racist and xenophobic views and publishes an examination of its history since its founding in 1861
CNN:
Sara Fischer, Axios' media reporter for six years, joins CNN as an on-air contributor on the media beat; Fischer will continue to oversee Axios' media coverage
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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