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1:55 PM ET, November 8, 2022

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David Pierce / The Verge:
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps  —  YouTube Shorts is working.  That much Todd Sherman knows for sure.  Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …
Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime:
Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy loses his defamation lawsuit against Insider over articles accusing him of violent sexual misconduct  —  The founder of a website known for crass and degrading content that often veers into harassment, racism, and misogyny has lost his defamation claim …
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  —  As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.
Robert P. Baird / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of liberal magazine The American Prospect and David Dayen, who helped grow its readership by nearly 50% since taking over as executive editor in 2019  —  How The American Prospect became the magazine of the moment  —  At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: The Recount has ~12 staffers left after October's cuts, as the outlet attempts a sale for a nominal sum after losing $10M on $1M in revenue in 2021  —  Around a dozen staffers are left at The Recount, a video news startup that launched in 2018, after the company's latest round of cuts last month …
Discussion: @rafat
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
An interview with former White House press secretary Jen Psaki about shifting her career into TV news, launching her own show on Peacock in 2023, and more  —  The ex-White House press secretary will be breaking down the midterms Tuesday night in the MSNBC studio and has been sounding out Mika …
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.
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC removing Tiffany Cross demonstrates the tension between delivering a progressive point of view to its liberal audience while avoiding bombast and snark  —  MSNBC's decision to part ways with its top-rated weekend anchor came after an escalating internal conflict.
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Paramount names Megan Marcus as its VP of podcast editorial, where she will oversee CBS News' slate of podcasts  —  CBS News has named Megan Marcus vp of podcast editorial at Paramount where she will oversee content for CBS News' slate of podcasts.  —  In this new role, Marcus will oversee …
Discussion: Variety, Inside Radio and Barrett Media
Jerusalem Post:
Israeli journalist Rina Matzliach, a Meet the Press anchor on the N12 channel, resigns after 40 years, saying freedom of the press is at risk in the country  —  Matzliach urged journalists to “to protect the freedom of the press and freedom of expression.”  —  Israeli journalist Rina …
 
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Bloomberg:
Sources: with their TikTok contracts expiring soon, UMG, Sony, and Warner Music Group are negotiating for a share of ad revenue and increased royalties
Discussion: Music Ally and Music Help Desk
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The UK's Ofcom finds the BBC had “significant editorial failings” in its TV and online reporting of an antisemitic attack on Jewish students in London in 2021
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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
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
Discussion: Climate Signals and Carbon Paper
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
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says Twitter plans to add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, implement creator monetization for all forms of content, and improve search