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3:05 PM ET, November 3, 2022

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNBC cancels The News with Shepard Smith, its primetime general news show, to refocus on business coverage; a source says Smith plans to leave later this month  —  - CNBC has canceled “The News with Shepard Smith” after two years.  — Smith is leaving the network after his show concludes later this month.
@insiderunion:
[Thread] Insider's union demands that management bargain with it over changes in writers' metric goals and elimination of roles, as the paywall strategy changes  —  Yesterday, our @insiderunion colleagues marched on global editor-in-chief @nichcarlson to demand he and other members of @thisisinsider management bargain with us about massive proposed changes to the newsroom. How did we get here? 🧵A thread... https://twitter.com/...
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Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Meta lets select Instagram creators in the US test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024
Reuters:
Sources: Murdoch is pursuing the Fox/News Corp merger because combining live game broadcasts and sports coverage would help with Fox's sports betting foray  —  Rupert Murdoch's proposal to recombine News Corp (NWSA.O) and Fox Corp (FOXA.O) and capitalize on sports betting has yet …
Stephanie Lai / New York Times:
A look at how political campaigns are using influencers, a practice the FEC's campaign finance laws do not regulate; the practice is bound by the honor system  —  Campaigns are using social media influencers as a way to reach young and diverse voters, a novel and mostly unregulated strategy.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AMC Networks and the Roku Channel expand their partnership; AMC will add 11 free channels to Roku; AMC+, Shudder, and Acorn TV remain premium subscriptions  —  AMC Networks is bringing 11 new free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels to the Roku Channel — including a selection of episodes from hit series like …
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Dish raises Sling TV prices to $40/month, double the price it charged when it launched the base package seven years ago  —  Dish Network's streaming television service Sling TV says it is rolling out a price increase on its base plans.  —  The price increase comes more than a month …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
How The Washington Post, NBC News, and SmartNews are preparing for the 2022 US midterms with personalized local news, better content packages, visuals, and more  —  News apps and aggregators are gearing up for the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8 by rolling out new features to help readers …
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Chloe Chaplain / The i Paper:
Source: amid free speech criticism, the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill's “legal but harmful” content rules, except for material targeted at children  —  EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
CNN confirms Jake Tapper will return to his 4pm weekday time slot with his show, The Lead, after anchoring the 9pm slot through the US 2022 midterm elections
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The Guardian:
As digital ad revenue declines, Evgeny Lebedev's The Independent puts 52 roles at risk of redundancy in the UK, 30 of which are in editorial, out of ~240 staff
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $761.4M, vs. $694M est., 21.9B streaming hours, and 2.3M active accounts added; the stock drops 18%+ on weak Q4 guidance
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at which media companies are complying with New York City's “good faith” salary transparency law, as some post useless ranges like “$15/hour to $125,000”
Brodie Fenlon / CBC News:
Canada's CBC announces plans to close its Beijing bureau, details its earlier expulsion from Moscow after 44 years, and finalizes a two-person bureau in Mumbai