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Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that may be ready by the end of 2022; Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 and shut it down in 2016 — Elon Musk has instructed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that could be ready by year end, multiple sources tell Axios.
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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.
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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.
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Sources: ProPublica is scrambling to verify a Chinese Communist Party memoranda, after criticism that its expose about a Wuhan lab was based on a mistranslation — In the days after ProPublica published a searing expose based on a close reading of Communist Party memoranda in Mandarin …
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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.
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Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith becomes a senior advisor to Emerson Collective, one of the top local news funding sources that has given $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 …
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Chartbeat: in 2022, traffic from Google News and other aggregators fell to ~14% of traffic referred by social, search, and links, down from 18% to 20% in 2020 — Three years ago, publisher analytics firm Chartbeat saw news aggregators becoming the fastest growing traffic referral source.


The BBC plans to cut 48 jobs in local radio, causing 39 networks in England to share programs from 2PM to 6AM, as the broadcaster 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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Bloomberg launches Audience Accelerator, a first-party ad platform built using a data lake with info about 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.


Amazon plans to launch a 12-hour daily lineup of sports talk shows, with seven shows available for free on 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 …
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The Wrap, Awful Announcing, The Streamable and The Hollywood Reporter


Peacock partners with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from the 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.
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Hearst plans to launch its commerce marketplace FirstFinds on November 1 after its beta launch on October 24 with 1,000+ products picked by a five-person team — Hearst's new commerce platform, FirstFinds, wants to solve the social media shopping problem once and for all.