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12:20 PM ET, November 11, 2022

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter's head of ad sales Robin Wheeler resigned, but Musk convinced her to stay; head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth confirmed his resignation  —  Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy …
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks  —  Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account had provided information …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
In his first email to staff, Elon Musk says he wants subscriptions to account for half of Twitter's revenue  —  New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for “difficult times ahead” and ban remote work unless he personally approved it.
Washington Post:
Internal note: Twitter has temporarily disabled sign-ups for Twitter Blue to “help address impersonation issues” affecting brands, politicians, and celebrities  —  Twitter accounts impersonating celebrities and politicians spread on the site after the company rolled out paid check marks.
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
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A Connecticut judge orders Alex Jones to pay $473M in punitive damages on top of the nearly $1B in defamation claims that a jury awarded to Sandy Hook parents  —  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month …
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times hires Jonathan Swan, a national political reporter at Axios, for its politics team  —  The political reporter is joining the Politics team at The Times.  Read more in this note from Politics Editor David Halbfinger and Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
An interview with HBO Max Head of Original Content Sarah Aubrey on her mandate to grow Warner Bros. Discovery IP, canceling originals, and figuring out ratings  —  Sarah Aubrey definitely did not sign up for this.  —  In early 2015, when she ended her producing partnership with filmmaker Peter Berg …
Discussion: SlashFilm, ScreenRant and The Playlist
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Thomson Reuters plans to acquire tax automation software company SurePrep for $500M in cash, with the deal expected to close in Q1 2023  —  Thomson Reuters has announced plans to acquire SurePrep, a tax automation software company based in Irvine, California.
Discussion: Thomson Reuters
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Some reporters and columnists kept predicting a major Republican victory in the 2022 midterms but their analysis was wrong due to long-held preconceived notions  —  The corporate-media consensus that there would be a “red wave” in the 2022 midterms was not some late-emerging phenomenon that its members can blame on polls or spin.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Prediction-based politics coverage crowds out reporting of candidates' stances; polling firms like Trafalgar are producing much more Republican-friendly results
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
US judge blocks Drake and 21 Savage from using a fake Vogue cover to promote their album, saying it likely infringes on the magazine's trademarks  —  A judge found that the artists likely infringed on Condé Nast's trademarks and are “deceiving the public” with their publicity stunt.
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Tegna's carriage fee revenue grew 2.4% YoY to $377.4M in Q3, the second consecutive quarter it surpassed ad revenue, which reached $320.8M, down 11% YoY  —  Revenue from agreements with cable and satellite operators outpaced advertisement revenue for at least the second straight quarter at broadcaster TEGNA …
Peter White / Deadline:
Netflix announces that its first-ever live, global streaming event will be a Chris Rock comedy special aired in early 2023  —  Netflix is utilizing its move into live streaming technology with Chris Rock becoming the first comedian to test it out.  —  Rock will perform live in a global streaming event in 2023.
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
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