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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
After Twitter labels select accounts as “Official”, Elon Musk says he “killed it” and an executive says the label “is still going out” as part of the new Blue — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet …
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer:
[Thread] Elon Musk tells advertisers in a Spaces chat that Twitter plans to improve ad relevance, he will pay to verify brands if they don't want to, and more — 1/ Live tweeting @elonmusk Twitter spaces w advertisers: Q: What's biggest learning so far? —"The overarching goal here is, how can we make Twitter a force for good in civilization?" —"We want to be in rigorous pursuit of the truth, to be somewhat in the business of truth"
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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Bloomberg doesn't plan to cover staff's Twitter Blue verification and CNN says it's “highly unlikely”; Puck calls the cost an extension of its marketing budget — - Twitter is planning to require users to pay to keep their verification. — Insider asked 14 newsrooms whether …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Brand advertisers say they don't mind what Elon Musk says in outreach calls; they worry about what he does and what he tweets, as they tend to avoid controversy — Hard to solve that with a conference call. — Elon Musk held a giant conference call for advertisers and more than 100,000 other people today.
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
YouTube says Music and Premium have 80M+ paying subscribers combined, up from 50M in September 2021, and payments to creators and others since 2019 passed $50B — It's a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube …
New York Times:
Forbes says it is in advanced talks to sell itself to a group of investors; sources: it had been seeking $800M, but the final price will likely be lower — The group of bidders includes investors from the United States and overseas, a company spokesman said.
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Washington Post:
A look at Birdwatch, to be renamed Community Notes, as Twitter cuts back on professional debunkings: 194 people submitted notes posted in the past month — In private chats, a cadre of volunteers is shaping a new approach to misinformation — one Elon Musk has endorsed as he scales back on professional debunkings
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at free news channels: NBC News Now averages 34M streaming hours per month in 2022, up 55% YoY; ABC News had 41M streaming hours in September, up 73% YoY — If TV news legends Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley were alive and still reporting today, you probably would be watching them on a streaming channel.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Filing: Gannett Media president and USA Today publisher Maribel Perez Wadsworth will leave at year end; source: Newsquest's Henry Faure Walker will succeed her — The president of Gannett Media and publisher of USA Today has been with the company for 25 years
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
ITV reports external revenue for January to September rose 6% YoY to £2.52B, ITV Studios rose 16% YoY to £1.39B, and Q3 ad revenue fell 14% — But ITV Studios revenue grew 16 percent over the first nine months. — U.K. TV giant ITV reported a 14 drop in third-quarter advertising …
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
BBC Studios takes full ownership of Voltage TV, which makes documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, by acquiring Channel 4's minority stake — BBC Studios has taken full ownership of British factual producer Voltage TV, whose credits include “Inside the Factory” and “The British Tribe Next Door.”
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK police arrested an LBC reporter and two photographers, who were covering a protest by Just Stop Oil on the M25 highway, on Tuesday — A documentary photographer, a press photographer and a reporter for LBC were arrested and detained by police yesterday for filming an eco-protest by Just Stop Oil on the M25.
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney misses on Q4 revenue, up 9% YoY to $20.15B vs. $21.24B est., but adds 12.1M Disney+ subscribers for a total of 164.2M, vs. 160.45M est.; stock down 10%+ — - Disney reports earnings after the market closes on Tuesday. — The company will hold an earnings conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M
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