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12:10 PM ET, November 7, 2022

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Billy Perrigo / TIME:
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more  —  (To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world's top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC removing Tiffany Cross demonstrates the tension between delivering a progressive viewpoint to a liberal audience and avoiding bombast and snark  —  MSNBC's decision to part ways with its top-rated weekend anchor came after an escalating internal conflict.
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
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Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot away from advertising to recurring revenue through subscriptions
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Molly Jong-Fast, who became a liberal media star by amassing 1M Twitter followers and joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent on November 3  —  She wasn't a political expert.  But her Trump-era angst found a following among Democrats — and even the White House is interested.
Alexandra Borchardt / European Broadcasting Union:
An interview with Deutsche Welle EIC Manuela Kasper-Claridge on climate journalism as a way to attract talent, how newsrooms should cover the climate, and more  —  Interview with Manuela Kasper-Claridge, Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Welle by Dr Alexandra Borchardt, Lead Author, EBU News Report 2023 …
Discussion: Carbon Paper
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
The UK's ITV plans to launch its ITVX streaming service on December 8, available with a free, ad-supported tier and a premium tier with BritBox and no ads  —  The company, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, will replace its ITV Hub in an attempt to attract more eyeballs.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC News retracts an erroneous story about the attack on Paul Pelosi that used an unnamed source's “unreliable” info, as the story did not meet its standards  —  People at the network said the ‘Today’ show report was based on ‘unreliable’ information from a source who was unnamed in the story.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Ofcom finds the BBC committed “significant editorial failings” in its TV and online reporting of an attack on Jewish students in London in 2021  —  ‘Significant editorial failings’ in news coverage of abuse of about 40 Jewish people by group of men in London
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her  —  How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up?  —  Today, we're just talking about a problem.
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
A look at Michelle Ross-Stanton's quest to understand the murky circumstances of the death of her photographer husband and another Fox News reporter in Ukraine  —  Michelle Ross-Stanton has spent months investigating the March 14 attack on her husband, Pierre Zakrzewski, and his colleagues outside Kyiv.
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”  —  Chief of social-media company cites activist groups pressuring advertisers, as many staffers brace to lose jobs
 
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Billy Binion / Reason:
Police jailed journalist Priscilla Villarreal for two routine 2017 stories due to a Texas law; a US court isn't sure if her First Amendment rights were violated
Austin Karp / Sports Business Journal:
Average NFL game viewership through Week 8 is down 5% compared to 2021 due to Amazon's Thursday Night Football games, which average 10.3M viewers, down 16% YoY
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Lyra, Alison Millar's documentary film about murdered Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, is out now in UK and Irish theaters and coming to Channel 4 in 2023
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: WBD CEO David Zaslav told Chris Licht in October to cut $100M, or ~10% of CNN's budget; proposals for jobs, shows, and other cuts are now under review
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Fox wins a 10-year option to buy an 18.6% stake in sports betting company FanDuel for $3.72B at a $20B valuation, settling a dispute with majority owner Flutter
New York Times:
How a Los Angeles police captain helped suppress details of a 2017 police report with sexual assault claims from the 1980s against former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves
Jason Guerrasio / Insider:
The US DOJ charges two former MoviePass executives in a securities fraud case for allegedly trying to artificially inflate parent company HMNY's stock price