Mediagazer: A look at a complaint against The China Project, alleging the US-based news company acts as a “foreign agent” and China influenced its coverage, which it denies (Ben Smith/Semafor)

2:40 PM ET, October 31, 2022

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Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.

Discussion: @craignewman, @oliviasolon, @janebsinger, ProPublica, Beyond Search, @jason_kint, @lutherlowe, @craigsilverman, @profcarroll and @craigsilverman

Ben Smith / Semafor:

A look at a complaint against The China Project, alleging the US-based news company acts as a “foreign agent” and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.

Discussion: @john_hudson, @limlouisa, @semaforben, The China Project, @aaronmcn, @changxche, @limlouisa and @aadilbrar

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The Wire says the Delhi Police searched its office and the homes of four editors due to a complaint by BJP's Amit Malviya alleging cheating, forgery, and more — The searches were conducted in relation to a complaint filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya, founding editor of the website MK Venu told Scroll.in.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, @rohini_mohan, @safoorazargar, @heerjeet, @elchaudhry, @seemi_pasha, @suchitrav, @audreytruschke, @priyamvadagopal, @priyashmita, @ghazalawahab, @samar11, @rasmus_kleis and @sundeepdougal

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The Wire files a complaint against its researcher Devesh Kumar with Delhi Police, a day after police charged its journalists for forgery and other infractions — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …

Discussion: Scroll.in, @zoeschiffer, @kevincollier and @film_girl

Daniel Rosney / BBC:

BBC will cut 48 jobs in local radio, with 39 networks in England sharing programs between 2PM and 6AM, as it prioritizes digital content — BBC local radio stations will have a significant number of programmes cut under new plans, the corporation has announced.

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Ben Smith / Semafor:

Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith will become a senior advisor to Emerson Collective, one of the top local news funding sources, giving $60M+ in grants since 2016 — Evan Smith, the CEO and co-founder of the Texas Tribune, will be a senior advisor to Emerson, which has emerged as one of the top funding sources …

Discussion: @semaforben, @peterlattman, @pamelacolloff, @ralstonreports, @evanasmith, @jason_kint, @hodgman and @eramshaw

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:

Chartbeat: in 2022, traffic from Apple News and other aggregators fell to 14% of traffic referred by social, search, and links, down from 18-20% in 2020 — Three years ago, publisher analytics firm Chartbeat saw news aggregators becoming the fastest growing traffic referral source.

Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:

Bloomberg launches Audience Accelerator, its first-party ad platform built using data on its 450,000 subscribers and 5M registered users — Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform.

Lynette Rice / Deadline:

Peacock signs a deal with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Movies & Mysteries, and Drama, its first such deal — Peacock has closed a pact with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.

Discussion: The Streamable, Next TV, Variety, Ad Age, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media Play News, The Hollywood Reporter, TVLine, IndieWire and Advanced Television

Andrew Marchand / New York Post:

Amazon will launch a 12-hour daily schedule of sports talk shows, with seven shows available for free over Prime Video and its other audio and visual platforms — MORE FROM: — In its continued effort to become a full-time destination for sports, Amazon will have its own lineup …

Discussion: Awful Announcing, The Streamable and The Hollywood Reporter

Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill / The Guardian:

The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hires Amber de Botton, the head of UK news at ITV News, as his director of communications — Journalist Amber de Botton takes special adviser role for new prime minister — Rishi Sunak has hired Amber de Botton as his director of communications …

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Chris Davis / WTVF-TV:

The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.

Discussion: @henryrothenberg and MediaPost

Eli Pariser / Wired:

Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces — This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Among tech companies, Twitter has been the biggest defender of online free speech, globally; fired head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde drove much of that work

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