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7:00 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.
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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
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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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.
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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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
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