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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.
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[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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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Facebook expands professional mode, letting all creators globally earn money from various monetization programs, including Reels Play bonuses and subscriptions — Meta has announced the global expansion of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators.
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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
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Substack announces Chat, an opt-in feature letting writers host discussions with their subscribers, available in the Substack iOS app and coming soon to Android — Another company hoping to capitalize on Twitter's upheaval in the wake of Elon Musk's takeover is the newsletter platform Substack.
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Hamish McKenzie / On Substack:
Substack co-founder says it's time for a “real alternative” to Twitter, and plans features to let writers and readers “hang out”, show their status, and more
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Some journalists say they are deleting their Twitter DMs as many reject the idea of an $8 ID verification fee and make plans to use backup social platforms — Journalists are deleting DMs, scoffing at Musk's $8 verification fee, and even considering bolting from the platform.
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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:
Political campaigns are increasingly using influencers, a practice the FEC's campaign finance laws do not regulate, with disclosures dictated by an honor system — Campaigns are using social media influencers as a way to reach young and diverse voters, a novel and mostly unregulated strategy.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Advance Publications, owner of 24 newspapers and Condé Nast, plans to stop printing Alabama's three largest newspapers and make them digital-only in February — Advance Publications to make Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Press-Register digital-only
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